When a humorous script-reader in her New York City apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature Read More »
Biography
Curiosa (2019) Lou Jeunet, Noémie Merlant, Niels Schneider, Benjamin Lavernhe
Paris 1895; Pierre is a Parisian dandy and poet on the verge of fame. Read More »
Bismarck (1940) Wolfgang Liebeneiner, Paul Hartmann, Friedrich Kayßler, Lil Dagover
A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia Read More »
The Bell Jar (1979) Larry Peerce, Marilyn Hassett, Julie Harris, Jameson Parker
Details a young woman’s summer in New York working for a Mademoiselle-like magazine Read More »
Young Toscanini / Il giovane Toscanini (1988) Franco Zeffirelli, C. Thomas Howell, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophie Ward
In Rio de Janeiro in 1886, eighteen-year-old conductor Arturo Toscanini (C. Thomas Howell) Read More »
Bright Star (2009) Jane Campion, Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, Paul Schneider
It’s 1818 in Hampstead Village on the outskirts of London. Read More »
Tchaikovsky (1970) Igor Talankin, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Antonina Shuranova, Kirill Lavrov
The life and work of Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tschaikovsky is shown through his relationship Read More »
The Life of Reilly (2006) Frank L. Anderson, Barry Poltermann, Charles Nelson Reilly
If, in 1940, you had a lobotomized aunt, an institutionalized father, a racist mother, and were the only gay kid on the block Read More »
The Farm of Seven Sins / La ferme des sept péchés (1949) Jean Devaivre, Jacques Dumesnil, Claude Génia, Aimé Clariond
In 1825, Paul-Louis Courier, a Republican writer known for publishing pamphlets against the French monarchy Read More »
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) George Stevens, Max von Sydow, Dorothy McGuire, Charlton Heston
George Stevens’ epic production. “My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken Me?” Read More »