What would you do if someone you loved sat down with you one night Read More »
The Flower, the Storm, and the Gang AKA Hana to arashi to gyangu (1961) Teruo Ishii, Ken Takakura, Kôji Tsuruta, Mamoru Ogawa
This is an important early Toei yakuza film, starring a young Ken Takakura as a wild Read More »
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow AKA Zwischen gestern und morgen (1947) Harald Braun, Hildegard Knef, Winnie Markus, Sybille Schmitz
A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel Read More »
Sis Hopkins (1941) Joseph Santley, Judy Canova, Bob Crosby, Charles Butterworth
A young girl from the “sticks” comes to the city to live with her wealthy relatives. Read More »
Thunder Bay (1953) Anthony Mann, James Stewart, Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland
In 1946, ex-Navy engineer Steve Martin comes to a Louisiana town with a dream: to build a safe platform for offshore oil drilling. Read More »
Sweet Adeline (1934) Mervyn LeRoy, Irene Dunne, Donald Woods, Hugh Herbert
The 1929 Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein Broadway musical Sweet Adeline has generally been credited as the vanguard Read More »
The Lady Is Willing (1934) Gilbert Miller, Leslie Howard, Cedric Hardwicke, Binnie Barnes
A private detective is hired by three men to kidnap a wealthy man’s wife in order to get a ransom, but he soon falls for her. Read More »
Loves of Jeanne Nye AKA Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney (1927) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Édith Jéhanne, Uno Henning, Fritz Rasp
In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren’t done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Read More »
Shooting Stars (1928) Anthony Asquith, A.V. Bramble, Annette Benson, Brian Aherne, Donald Calthrop
The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers Read More »
The Girl Downstairs (1938) Norman Taurog, Franciska Gaal, Franchot Tone, Walter Connolly
Paul Wagner and Rosalind Brown are in love, but her father doesn’t feel Paul’s lifestyle will make him a suitable husband for his daughter. Read More »