Two brothers ask their father about his communist years, then their mother, and sister. Read More »
The Emperor’s Nightingale / Cisaruv slavík (1949) Jirí Trnka, Milos Makovec, Helena Patockova, Jaromir Sobotoa
A Chinese emperor prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. Read More »
The Night Before Christmas / Vechera na khutore bliz Dikanki (1961) Aleksandr Rou, Aleksandr Khvylya, Lyudmila Myznikova, Yuri Tavrov
The whimsical combination of Christmas phantasmagoria and an eccentric fairy tale Read More »
Caligula Reincarnated As Nero / Nerone e Poppea (1982) Bruno Mattei, Antonio Passalia, Piotr Stanislas, Françoise Blanchard, Patricia Derek
History tells us that Nero was the Emperor who fiddled while Rome burned. Read More »
The Stranglers of Bombay (1959) Terence Fisher, Guy Rolfe, Allan Cuthbertson, Andrew Cruickshank
In the 1830s, a captain in the East India Company lobbies to investigate Read More »
Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women (1979) Joseph Pevney, Steven Keats, Jaime Lyn Bauer, Jayne Kennedy
Some men in a plane land on an uncharted island. Read More »
Twelve Chairs / Zwölf Stühle (2004) Ulrike Ottinger, Georgiy Deliev, Gennadiy Skarga, Svetlana Dyagilyeva
In her glorious adaptation of Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov’s 1920s Soviet satirical novel Read More »
Holy Emy (2021) Araceli Lemos, Abigael Loma, Hasmine Killip, Eirini Inglesi
A young Filipina searches for the missing links between her strange bleeding condition Read More »
All of Me (1963) Joel Holt, Brenda Denaut, Alice Denham
This film features Brenda Denaut, born Mardiningsih Olivia Nowak in Evanston, Illinois in 1939. Read More »
Week-End at the Waldorf (1945) Robert Z. Leonard, Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon
The misadventures of a group of diverse guests at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Manhattan. Read More »