Jenny has always been fascinated with the stage, especially since her mother was a famous actress. Read More »
Romance
Mother Carey’s Chickens (1938) Rowland V. Lee, Anne Shirley, Ruby Keeler, James Ellison
The story proper gets under way when Mr. Carey (Ralph Morgan) is killed in the Spanish American War Read More »
Wild Side (2004) Sébastien Lifshitz, Stéphanie Michelini, Yasmine Belmadi, Edouard Nikitine
In Paris, the thirty-two years old travesty Stéphanie a.k.a. Pierre is a streetwalker that lives Read More »
Divorce Italian Style / Divorzio all’italiana (1961) Pietro Germi, Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli
A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her Read More »
Sarah and Son (1930) Dorothy Arzner, Ruth Chatterton, Fredric March, Fuller Mellish Jr.
A ne’er-do-well husband, after years of abusing his wife, disappears with their son Read More »
Phantom of the Opera (1943) Arthur Lubin, Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains
Pit violinist Claudin hopelessly loves rising operatic soprano Christine Dubois Read More »
Doctor, Beware / Teresa Venerdì (1941) Vittorio De Sica, Adriana Benetti, Irasema Dilián
A comedy of errors in which the sweetly incompetent Dr. Pietro Vignali (de Sica) has been run deep Read More »
The Idol / L’idole (2002) Samantha Lang, Leelee Sobieski, James Hong, Jean-Paul Roussillon
In an old Parisian apartment block, Zao, an elderly refined Chinese man Read More »
Les choses qu’on dit, les choses qu’on fait (2020) Emmanuel Mouret, Camélia Jordana, Niels Schneider, Vincent Macaigne
In the French countryside, Daphné, three months pregnant, finds herself alone to welcome Maxime Read More »
Butley (1974) Harold Pinter, Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Richard O’Callaghan
A day in the life of Ben Butley. But definitely not a day to remember for this T.S. Eliot scholar at the University of London. Read More »