
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. Read More »
Monthly Archives: September 2025
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2018) Rob Garver, Woody Allen, Lili Anolik, Alec Baldwin

Pauline Kael, the New Yorker film critic for 25 years until the early 1990s, was a lightning rod of American culture. Read More »
The Gates of Paris / Porte des Lilas (1957) René Clair, Pierre Brasseur, Georges Brassens, Henri Vidal

Juju, a drunken oaf who feels the need of being important to someone—anyone—and his friend, an artist Read More »
Avere vent’anni / To Be Twenty (1978) Fernando Di Leo, Gloria Guida, Lilli Carati, Ray Lovelock

Lia and Tina are two beautiful girls who meet and realize that they have a lot in common. Read More »
Happy as Lazzaro / Lazzaro felice (2018) Alice Rohrwacher, Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani

This is the tale of a meeting between Lazzaro, a young peasant so good that he is often mistaken for simple-minded Read More »
The Slap / La gifle (1974) Claude Pinoteau, Lino Ventura, Annie Girardot, Isabelle Adjani

Geography professor Jean has divorced his wife. His mistress has also left him. Read More »
Coast to Coast (1980) Joseph Sargent, Dyan Cannon, Robert Blake, Quinn K. Redeker

A wealthy neurotic woman escapes from a New York mental asylum Read More »
Casanegra (2008) Nour Eddine Lakhmari, Anas El Baz, Omar Lotfi, Mohamed Benbrahim

Two childhood friends, Karim and Adil, prowl the streets of Casablanca, their native city. Read More »
The Strain Andromeda (1992) Anne McGuire

Experimental movie in which the director takes the 1971 movie The Andromeda Strain and runs it backwards, shot by shot. Read More »
Safety Last (1923) Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother

In 1922, the country boy Harold says goodbye to his mother and his girlfriend Mildred Read More »