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Monthly Archives: November 2025
The Angelic Conversation (1985) Derek Jarman, Phillip Williamson, Judi Dench, Dave Baby

An unseen woman recites Shakespeare’s sonnets – fourteen in all – as a man wordlessly seeks his heart’s desire. Read More »
Les yeux clairs / Pale eyes (2005) Jérôme Bonnell, Nathalie Boutefeu, Marc Citti, Judith Rémy

Fanny lives with her brother and his girlfriend in their long time dead parents’ house. Read More »
So Proudly We Hail! (1943) Mark Sandrich, Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake

A group of U.S. Army nurses leaves San Francisco for their tour of duty in Hawaii in December 1941. Read More »
Ninfa plebea / The Nymph (1996) Lina Wertmüller, Stefania Sandrelli, Raoul Bova, Lucia Cara

In the World War II, in a small Italian village, Nunziata is an easy woman married with the cuckold tailor Gioacchino. Read More »
Miss Europe AKA Prix de beauté (1930) Augusto Genina, Louise Brooks, Georges Charlia, Augusto Bandini

Lucienne, typist and gorgeous bathing beauty, decides to enter the ‘Miss Europe’ pageant sponsored by the French newspaper she works for. Read More »
People in the Summer Night (1948) Valentin Vaala

A visual poem based on a story by Nobel laureate F.E. Sillanpää. Read More »
The Treasure of San Teresa / Hot Money Girl (1959) Alvin Rakoff, Eddie Constantine, Dawn Addams, Marius Goring

After World War II, an ex-spy returns to Germany to search for a cache of jewels he hid in a Czechoslovakian convent. Read More »
All Soul’s Day / Zaduszki (1961) Tadeusz Konwicki, Ewa Krzyzewska, Edmund Fetting, Elzbieta Czyzewska

A pair of lovers go off to a small hotel in a little town. The memories of war, however, intrude on their idyll. Read More »
Having a Wild Weekend AKA Catch Us If You Can (1965) John Boorman, The Dave Clark Five, Barbara Ferris, David Lodge

Dinah is a model whose face appears in an ad campaign for meat. Read More »