A Quiet Passion is Terence Davies’ biographical drama detailing the life of Emily Dickinson her loves, her struggles and her magnificent poetry. Read More »
Biography
Tarnation (2003) Jonathan Caouette, Renee Leblanc, Adolph Davis
Part documentary, part narrative fiction, part home movie, and part acid trip. Read More »
Scott of the Antarctic (1948) Charles Frend, John Mills, Derek Bond, Diana Churchill
The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man Read More »
Hans Westmar (1933) Franz Wenzler, Emil Lohkamp, Paul Wegener, Heinrich Heilinger
This Nazi propaganda film purports to show the story of a Nazi Storm Trooper Read More »
Paradise Found (2003) Mario Andreacchio, Kiefer Sutherland, Nastassja Kinski, Alun Armstrong
Paris, 1880. Paul Gauguin is a successful financier. He lives in Paris with his wife Mette and their four children. Read More »
The Demons of St. Petersburg AKA I demoni di San Pietroburgo (2008) Giuliano Montaldo, Predrag ‘Miki’ Manojlovic, Carolina Crescentini, Roberto Herlitzka
St. Petersburg, 1860. A member of the imperial family is assassinated. A few days later, the writer Fëdor Michajlovic Dostoevskij Read More »
Jolson Sings Again (1949) Henry Levin, Larry Parks, Barbara Hale, William Demarest
In this sequel to The Jolson Story, we pick up the singer’s career just as he has returned Read More »
Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy (1986) Tom Clegg, Nicol Williamson, Janet Suzman, Ian Richardson
The Story of the last viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten. Read More »
The Puppetmaster AKA Xi meng ren sheng (1993) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Tian-Lu Li, Giong Lim, Kuei-Chung Cheng
This Hou Hsiao Hsien masterpiece is a portrait of the childhood and adolescence of octogenarian Taiwanese puppet master Read More »
Appassionata AKA Jo no mai (1984) Sadao Nakajima, Mariko Okada, Yûko Natori, Morio Kazama, Kei Satô
Tsuya Shimamura, is born in Kyoto as the second daughter of a tea trader who dies before her birth. Read More »