France, 1803: eleven years after the Revolution, a royalist underground Read More »
History
We’re Going to Be Rich (1938) Monty Banks, Gracie Fields, Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy
A drifter Dobbie and his wife Kit leave Australia in the 1880s for South African gold fields. Read More »
Love in the Time of Twilight / Hua yue jia qi (1995) Hark Tsui, Nicky Wu, Charlie Yeung, Eric Kot
Like many young people of the 1920s, Kong and Yan are infected with the “happily ever after” Read More »
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine / S21, la machine de mort khmère rouge (2003) Rithy Panh, Khieu ‘Poev’ Ches, Yeay Cheu, Nhem En
Between 1975 and 1979, the communist inspired Khmer Rouge waged a campaign Read More »
Eagle of the Pacific / Taiheiyô no washi (1953) Ishirô Honda, Denjirô Ôkôchi, Hiroshi Nihon’yanagi, Masao Shimizu
Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician Read More »
The Libertine / Le libertin (2000) Gabriel Aghion, Vincent Perez, Fanny Ardant, Josiane Balasko
The ‘philosopher’ (modernist intellectual of the French 18th-century Enlightenment) Denis Diderot Read More »
The Celluloid Closet (1995) Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, Lily Tomlin, Tony Curtis, Susie Bright
A comprehensive documentary of the history of gays and lesbians in cinema Read More »
The Passion of Joan of Arc / La passion de Jeanne d’Arc (1928) Carl Theodor Dreyer, Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley
The sufferings of a martyr, Jeanne D’Arc (1412-1431). Jeanne appears in court where Cauchon questions her and d’Estivet spits on her. Read More »
Macbeth (1948) Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O’Herlihy
In fog-dripping, barren and sometimes macabre settings, 11th-century Scottish nobleman Macbeth Read More »
An Officer and a Spy / J’accuse (2019) Roman Polanski, Louis Garrel, Christophe Maratier, Pierre Poirot
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a young promising officer Read More »