The time is the Russian Revolution. The place is a country burdened with fear Read More »
War
La grande vadrouille (1966) Gérard Oury
A RAF Bomber is shot down over Paris by the Germans. Its crew (Terry Thomas as a flight captain) land there by parachute. Read More »
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / La rivière du hibou (1961) Robert Enrico, Roger Jacquet, Anne Cornaly, Anker Larsen
A Civil War civilian is to be executed by hanging, but when the plank is kicked away Read More »
The Sorrow and the Pity / Le chagrin et la pitié (1969) Marcel Ophüls, Helmut Tausend, Marcel Verdier, Alexis Grave
From 1940 to 1944, France’s Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Read More »
Sandra / Vaghe stelle dell’Orsa… (1965) Luchino Visconti, Claudia Cardinale, Jean Sorel, Michael Craig
Sandra comes back to Volterra, in Tuscany, the little town where she spent her childhood. Read More »
Ararat (2002) Atom Egoyan, Charles Aznavour, Brent Carver, Eric Bogosian
People tell stories. In Toronto, an art historian lectures on Arshile Gorky (1904 -1948) Read More »
Father (1990) John Power, Max von Sydow, Carol Drinkwater
On a TV tabloid show, Iya Zetnick exposes Joe Mueller as the Nazi war criminal who killed her family. Read More »
The Mexican suitcase / La maleta mexicana (2011) Trisha Ziff, Ernest Alós, Juan Diego Botto, Antonio de la Fuente Ferraz
Mexican Suitcase tells the story of the recovery of 4,500 negatives by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro Read More »
The Hasty Heart (1949) Vincent Sherman, Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Richard Todd
It’s 1945, Burma, the day the war is over! For many this means they’ve survived and will be going home. But not for everyone. Read More »
Air Raid Wardens (1943) Edward Sedgwick, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy
Turned down when they try to enlist, the boys do the next best thing and become air raid wardens. Read More »