In John Ford’s sombre exploration mythologising of American heroes, he slowly reveals the character of Owen Thursday Read More »
Rider in Blue AKA Ryttare i blått (1959) Arne Mattsson, Gunnel Broström, Bengt Brunskog, Gio Petré, Björn Bjelfvenstam
When private eye John Hillman is on assignment in London his wife Kajsa visits the Army’s riding school at Strömsholm, Sweden. Read More »
The Color of Paradise AKA Rang-e khoda (1999) Majid Majidi, Hossein Mahjoub, Mohsen Ramezani, Salameh Feyzi
Mohammad, a boy at Tehran’s institute for the blind, waits for his dad to pick him up for summer vacation. Read More »
Missing Dad AKA Nos vemos, papá (2011) Lucía Carreras, Gabriela de la Garza, Cecilia Suárez, Moises Arizmendi
Pilar loses the one thing in life that mattered to her and, from that moment on time stops. Read More »
Where a Good Man Goes AKA Joi gin a long (1999) Johnnie To, Ching Wan Lau, Ruby Wong, Yiu-Cheung Lai
A former triad boss is just released from a Macau prison and ends up in a small inn runs by a simple and honest widow. Read More »
The Retrieval (2013) Chris Eska, Ashton Sanders, Tishuan Scott, Keston John, Bill Oberst Jr.
On the outskirts of the U.S. Civil War, a boy is sent north by his bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man. Read More »
Phantoms (1998) Joe Chappelle, Peter O’Toole, Rose McGowan, Joanna Going
The resort town of Snowfield, Colo., is under attack by an evil spirit that almost wipes out the entire population, possessing a number of those it kills. Read More »
Boys on the Run AKA Bôizu on za ran (2010) Daisuke Miura, Kazunobu Mineta, Mei Kurokawa, Ryûhei Matsuda
Toshiyuki Tanishi (Mr Tanishi) is a 29-year-old chronic masturbator and toy vending machine salesman – he is socially awkward and down on his luck. Read More »
The Flim-Flam Man (1967) Irvin Kershner, George C. Scott, Sue Lyon, Harry Morgan
Mordecai Jones is a rural con artist (a ‘flim-flam man’) who takes on a young army deserter; Curley as his protege, and teaches him the tricks of the trade. Read More »
Salute (1929) David Butler, John Ford, George O’Brien, Helen Chandler, William Janney
John Randall is an Army cadet at West Point. His younger brother Paul is a midshipman at the Naval Academy. Read More »