Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick “Billy”) to relieve a terrible dry spell Read More »
Musical
U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (2005) Mark Dornford-May, Pauline Malefane, Andile Tshoni, Lungelwa Blou
A version of Georges Bizet’s Carmen, set in a modern-day South African township. Read More »
Rose of Tralee (1937)
Paddy, an Irish singer heads to America to seek fame and fortune. Read More »
Louie Bluie (1985)
About the obscure country-blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong Read More »
Colleen (1936)
The Ames Company makes every effort to keep Uncle Cedric away from any decisions or work. Read More »
Love’s Debris (1996) Poussières d’amour – Abfallprodukte der Liebe
German director Werner Schroeter invited his favourite opera singers to a 13th century abbey near Paris. Read More »
Babes on Broadway (1941)
Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems Read More »
Girl Crazy (1943)
A philandering young playboy is sent to college somewhere in the American West Read More »
Black Angel (1946) Roy William Neill, Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre
Kirk Bennett is falsely sentenced to death for killing blackmailer Mavis Marlowe, ex-wife of nice-guy drunk Martin Blair. Read More »
Guard! Alert! (1937) Jean Grémillon
A girl, left pregnant by a seducer, sets off to look for him when the child is born. Read More »