On one hot summer night, the residents of a Hungarian apartment house slated Read More »
History
The Battle of El Alamein / La battaglia di El Alamein (1969) Giorgio Ferroni, Frederick Stafford, George Hilton, Michael Rennie
June 1942 El Alamein: Rommel swept towards the River Nile. The fall Egypt and the all important Suez Canal seems inevitable. Read More »
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach / Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach (1968) Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Gustav Leonhardt, Christiane Lang, Paolo Carlini
Utilizing letters Anna Magdalena Bach composed to her husband, seminal composer Johann Sebastian Read More »
The Gold Bug / El escarabajo de oro (2014) Alejo Moguillansky, Fia-Stina Sandlund, Luciana Acuña, Guillermo Goldschmidt, Walter Jakob
After an actor finds a treasure map detailing the location of ancient gold hidden Read More »
The Crucible / Les sorcières de Salem (1957) Raymond Rouleau, Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, Jean Debucourt
Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor Read More »
The Story of Adele H. / L’histoire d’Adèle H. (1975) François Truffaut, Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott
Halifax, 1863. A young woman, Miss Lewly, comes to Halifax to search for Lt Pinson Read More »
Kelin (2009) Ermek Tursynov, Gulsharat Zhubyeva, Turakhan Sadykova, Erzhan Nurymbet
A woman is led by her family to her new husband’s home, to live with, presumably Read More »
Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942) John Farrow, Paul Muni, Anna Lee, Lillian Gish
Erik Toresen, widower and fishery observer, leads a quiet life in a small Norwegian town Read More »
No Way Back / Weg ohne Umkehr (1953) Victor Vicas, Ivan Desny, Ruth Niehaus, René Deltgen
A Russian army officer is haunted by the memory of a girl he met during the war. Read More »
Visions of Light (1992) Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy, Stuart Samuels, Conrad L. Hall, John Bailey, Vilmos Zsigmond
Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography, illustrating their points Read More »