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Monthly Archives: October 2024
Fires on the Plain (1959) Kon Ichikawa

It is the Philipines, 1945. The Japanese Imperial Army has been reduced to a ragtag mob hiding in the jungles. Read More »
Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) Billy Wilder, Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston

Dino, the charming and lecherous Las Vegas singer, stops for gas on his way to Hollywood in Climax, Nevada. Read More »
Third Time Lucky (1949) Gordon Parry

A gambler falls in love with a naive young girl. He thinks she is bringing him good luck. Then his main gambling rival arrive Read More »
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)

Fact-based story about a disturbed office furniture salesman who in 1972 concocted Read More »
Red King, White Knight (1989) Geoff Murphy, Tom Skerritt, Max von Sydow, Helen Mirren

The C.I.A. hears of a K.G.B. scheme to assassinate the Soviet General Secretary Read More »
Pink Floyd: The Story of Wish You Were Here (2012) John Edginton, Syd Barrett, Joe Boyd, Venetta Fields

Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Richard Wright and others tell the story Read More »
Picturesque Epochs (2018) Péter Forgács

The protagonist of Picturesque Epochs is Mária Gánóczy (1927-), a painter and a film aficionado Read More »
Into the Homeland (1987) Lesli Linka Glatter, Powers Boothe, C. Thomas Howell, Cindy Pickett

Deep within the shadowy world of paramilitary white-supremacist movements Read More »
The Saga of Tanegashima (1968) Kazuo Mori

Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan Read More »