Biography of Robert Yancey, long-term district attorney in Lynchburg, Virginia. Read More »
Biography
Leadbelly (1976) Gordon Parks, Roger E. Mosley, Paul Benjamin, Madge Sinclair
The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Read More »
One Foot in Heaven (1941) Irving Rapper, Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi
In the early twentieth century, William Spence and Hope Morris Spence are a Methodist minister and his wife. Read More »
Gentleman Jim (1942) Raoul Walsh, Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson
Because boxing is a considered an illegal and disreputable enterprise in 1880’s San Francisco Read More »
Brakhage (1998) Jim Shedden, Jerry Aronson, Jane Brakhage, Marilyn Brakhage
Jim Sledden’s 1998 documentary Brakhage is an interesting, well-constructed portrait of avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage Read More »
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) John Sturges, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming
After a long career as a lawman that made him a legend, Wyatt Earp decides to quit and join his brothers in Tombstone, Arizona. Read More »
His Majesty O’Keefe (1954) Byron Haskin, Burt Lancaster, Joan Rice, André Morell
In 1870, Yankee sea captain O’Keefe finds himself stranded after a mutiny on the Micronesian island of Yap Read More »
Jango (1984) Silvio Tendler, Leonel Brizola, Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, João Goulart
The film depicts the life and career of João Belchior Marques Goulart, known as “Jango” Read More »
Prince Ehtejab (1974) Bahman Farmanara, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Fakhri Khorvash, Valiyollah Shirandami
Prince Ehtejab, one of the last remaining heirs of the Qajar royal family, is suffering from tuberculosis, which he knows is fatal. Read More »
Kinski Paganini [Director’s Cut] (1989) Klaus Kinski, Debora Caprioglio, Nikolai Kinski
Klaus Kinski believed that he lived through the same experiences as the legendary “devil violinist” Niccolò Paganini Read More »