The story of the marriage of England’s King Arthur to Guinevere is played out amid the pagentry of Camelot. Read More »
Romance
The Lorry AKA Le camion (1977) Marguerite Duras, Gérard Depardieu
We are confronted with two images, a lorry driving through the night until dawn, a depiction of the loneliness Read More »
The Four Seasons: Natsuko AKA Shiki Natsuko (1980) Yôichi Higashi, Setsuko Karasuma, Hitomi Kageyama, Akiko Kana
A 20-year-old woman feels entrapped in her relationship with her current boyfriend Read More »
Days and Night AKA Ayyam wa layali (1955) Henry Barakat, Abdel Halim Hafez, Eman, Mahmoud El-Meliguy
Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez stars in director Henri Barakat’s romantic musical drama about an athletic young man Read More »
Face in the Sky (1933) Harry Lachman, Spencer Tracy, Marian Nixon, Stuart Erwin
Sign painters Joe and Lucky travel around New England looking for jobs. After Joe uses Madge as a model, she hides in their wagon. Read More »
The Night Is Young (1935) Dudley Murphy, Ramon Novarro, Evelyn Laye, Charles Butterworth
Based on a story by Vicki Baum, the Sigmund Romberg-Oscar Hammerstein operetta The Night is Young is set in Vienna during the Franz Josef era. Read More »
The Maids (1975) Christopher Miles, Glenda Jackson, Susannah York, Vivien Merchant
A film version of Genet’s play. Two maids, Solange and Claire, hate their employers and Read More »
A Bride for Rip Van Winkle AKA Rippu Van Winkuru no hanayome (2016) Shunji Iwai, Haru Kuroki, Cocco, Gô Ayano
Nanami is an apathetic, part-time junior high school teacher, whose only solace comes from connecting Read More »
Flower Drum Song (1961) Henry Koster, Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Benson Fong
Chinese stowaway Mei Li (Miyoshi Umeki) arrives in San Francisco with her father to meet her fiancé, wealthy nightclub owner Sammy Fong (Jack Soo) Read More »
Lola (1981) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf
Ten years after the war, West Germany’s market economy is booming. Read More »