It’s the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O’Neal – Peggy to most that know her Read More »
Drama
Le film est déjà commencé? (1951) Maurice Lemaître
Lemaître is amongst one of the most important and creative artists of the second half of the 20th century. Read More »
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Bill Bernstein
An ophthalmologist’s mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife Read More »
Playing for Time (1980) Daniel Mann, Joseph Sargent, Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander, Maud Adams
In World War II, the Jewish French musician and cabaret singer Fania Fenelon Goldstein Read More »
The Impossible Spy (1987) Jim Goddard, John Shea, Eli Wallach, Sasson Gabay
Young Israeli husband Eli Cohen is recruited by the Mossad in the early 1960’s and sent to Syria. Read More »
Gagarine (2020) Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh, Alseni Bathily, Lyna Khoudri, Jamil McCraven
Yuri fights to save his home town – which he shares with his namesake, Yuri Gagarin – from demolition. Read More »
Rana’s Wedding / Al qods fee yom akhar (2002) Hany Abu-Assad, Clara Khoury, Khalifa Natour, Ismael Dabbag
About a Palestinian girl of 17 who wants to get married to the man of her own choosing. Read More »
The New Country / Det nya landet (2000) Geir Hansteen Jorgensen, Mike Almayehu, Ingrid Luterkort, Michalis Koutsogiannakis
A 15 year old Somalian boy meets a 40 year old Iranian man on a refugee camp in Skåne Read More »
Bedelia (1946) Lance Comfort, Margaret Lockwood, Ian Hunter, Barry K. Barnes
Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. Read More »
H.M.S. Defiant (1962) Lewis Gilbert, Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Maurice Denham
Defiant’s crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Read More »