Lucienne, typist and gorgeous bathing beauty, decides to enter the ‘Miss Europe’ pageant sponsored by the French newspaper she works for. Read More »
People in the Summer Night (1948) Valentin Vaala
A visual poem based on a story by Nobel laureate F.E. Sillanpää. Read More »
The Treasure of San Teresa / Hot Money Girl (1959) Alvin Rakoff, Eddie Constantine, Dawn Addams, Marius Goring
After World War II, an ex-spy returns to Germany to search for a cache of jewels he hid in a Czechoslovakian convent. Read More »
All Soul’s Day / Zaduszki (1961) Tadeusz Konwicki, Ewa Krzyzewska, Edmund Fetting, Elzbieta Czyzewska
A pair of lovers go off to a small hotel in a little town. The memories of war, however, intrude on their idyll. Read More »
Having a Wild Weekend AKA Catch Us If You Can (1965) John Boorman, The Dave Clark Five, Barbara Ferris, David Lodge
Dinah is a model whose face appears in an ad campaign for meat. Read More »
Festival in Cannes (2001) Henry Jaglom, Anouk Aimée, Rachel Bailit, Greta Scacchi
Cannes, 1999. Alice, an actress, wants to direct an indie picture. Kaz, a talkative (and maybe bogus) deal maker, promises $3 million if she’ll use Millie, an aging French star. Read More »
Charles, Dead or Alive (1969) Alain Tanner
On the 100th anniversary of the founding of a watchmaking company in Geneva Read More »
The Kid from the Big Apple / Wo lai zi Niu Yue (2016) Jess Teong, Lung Ti, Sarah Tan, Jessica Hester Hsuan
Elders see the younger generations as eyesores because of their overly ‘westernised’ (wild/ care free) behaviour and poor moral’s. Read More »
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960) Budd Boetticher, Ray Danton, Karen Steele, Elaine Stewart
Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewellery thieves. Read More »
Living Dangerously (1936) Herbert Brenon, Otto Kruger, Leonora Corbett, Francis Lister
Adapted from a long-running play by Reginald Simpson and Frank Gregory, Living Dangerously stars Otto Kruger as Dr. Norton. Read More »