In “Journey to the West,” helmer Tsai Ming-liang’s perennial protagonist, Lee Kang-sheng Read More »
Gently Was Anastasia Passing AKA Duios Anastasia trecea (1980) Alexandru Tatos, Anda Onesa, Amza Pellea, Tark Laszlo
A border town on the Danube, 1944. The town is occupied by the Germans, and there are plenty of collaborators. Read More »
Wild Canaries (2014) Lawrence Michael Levine, Sophia Takal, Alia Shawkat
In Brooklyn, engaged Noah and Barri have hit a rough spot in their relationship. Read More »
Take the Money and Run (1969) Woody Allen, Janet Margolin, Marcel Hillaire
This film is presented as a documentary on the life of an incompetent, petty criminal called Virgil Starkwell. Read More »
Moulin Rouge (1928) Ewald André Dupont, Olga Tschechowa, Eve Gray, Jean Bradin
Parysia is the rage of Paris. She has a daughter, secretly engaged to Andre Read More »
Silver Queen (1942) Lloyd Bacon, George Brent, Priscilla Lane, Bruce Cabot
A well-known and confident young woman from the Barbary Coast decides to give up her chance at love in order to succeed in card games. Read More »
Klondike Fury (1942) William K. Howard, Edmund Lowe, Lucile Fairbanks, William Henry
A neurosurgeon is thrown out of the medical profession after he performs a daring but unsuccessful surgery. Read More »
Night Watch (1973) Brian G. Hutton, Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw
Ellen Wheeler, a rich widow, is recovering from a nervous breakdown. Read More »
The Trojan Women (1971) Mihalis Kakogiannis, Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, Geneviève Bujold
Hecuba and the other women of Troy rise to find their city in ruins and their cause lost. Read More »
The Mouth of the Wolf AKA La bocca del lupo (2009) Pietro Marcello, Vincenzo Motta, Mary Monaco, Franco Leo
Pietro Marcello directs this genre-defying Italian docudrama that follows mustachioed ex-con Enzo Read More »
Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction (1964) Kazuo Ikehiro, Raizô Ichikawa, Michiko Ai, Akira Amemiya
A fugitive christian “saint” (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Kyoshiro. Read More »
Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing AKA Nemuri Kyoshiro 3: Engetsugiri (1964) Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Raizô Ichikawa, Kyooko Azuma, Ryônosuke Azuma
A decapitation at the hands of the shogun’s monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action Read More »
A Blast AKA I Ekrixi (2014) Syllas Tzoumerkas, Angeliki Papoulia, Vassilis Doganis, Maria Filini
Running away on the highway, Maria is alone in her roaring SUV. Read More »
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks – Part 1: Rust (2003) Bing Wang
Filmmaker Wang Bing spent three years charting the decline and decay of one of China’s major industrial regions Read More »
Billy Budd (1962) Peter Ustinov, Robert Ryan, Melvyn Douglas
H.M.S. Avenger is headed into battle against the French fleet during the Napoleonic Wars Read More »