
Continuation of the essay on the cinema of Louis Skorecki through the relations of some young cinephiles. Read More »
Drama
Sait-on jamais… (1957) No Sun in Venice

Cute Sophie is an amoral French girl living in a sumptuous Venetian palazzo. She is the kept woman of a very rich but undesirable fellow named Eric von Bergen, an ex-nazi turned forger. Read More »
That Lady (1955) Terence Young

Ana, the Princess of Eboli, wears a black patch over her right eye, where she was blinded as a youth when fighting a duel in defense of her king, the despotic Philip. Read More »
Once You’re Born You Can No Longer Hide (2005)

A young Italian boy accidentally falls overboard while yachting with his father on the Mediterranean. Read More »
David Golder (1931) Julien Duvivier

David is a poor but ambitious Polish Jew who reinvents himself as a powerful New York business magnate. Read More »
Resurrection (1958) Auferstehung

At the end of nineteenth century Russia, Prince Nechljudoff, on the verge of contracting Read More »
The Atrocity Exhibition (1998) Jonathan Weiss

A university professor is fascinated with humankind’s history of violent self-destruction. Read More »
My Sister Maria (2002) Meine Schwester Maria

A gentle portrait by the famous German-Swiss-Austrian Hollywood actor Maximilian Schell about his no less famous sister Maria. Read More »
Loves of a Blonde (1965) Lásky jedné plavovlásky

Factory manager gets army reserves to boost female workers’ morale. Local beauty spurns them for jazz pianist who seduces her. Read More »
Sirens (1993) John Duigan, Hugh Grant

A young reverend and his wife are on the way from England to Australia to minister to their flock. Read More »