Details a young woman’s summer in New York working for a Mademoiselle-like magazine Read More »
Biography
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 »
Lies of the Heart: The Story of Laurie Kellogg (1994) Michael Toshiyuki Uno, Gregory Harrison, Jennie Garth, Steven Keats
Fact-based made-for-TV movie about Laurie Kellogg, who was accused of murdering Read More »
Nijinsky (1980) Herbert Ross, Alan Bates, George De La Pena, Leslie Browne
Set in the early 1910s at a time of passionate artistic experimentalism Read More »
Karl May (1974) Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Helmut Käutner, Kristina Söderbaum, Käthe Gold
This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s “German Trilogy” on the mythological foundations of the Third Reich. Read More »