The story centers on the life and death of Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin, an impoverished government clerk and copyist in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. Read More »
The New Land AKA Nybyggarna (1972) Jan Troell, Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg
This film continues from where The Emigrants / Utvandrarna (1971) left off. Starting a new life in the New World from almost nothing is not easy. Read More »
The Puppetmaster AKA Xi meng ren sheng (1993) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Tian-Lu Li, Giong Lim, Kuei-Chung Cheng
This Hou Hsiao Hsien masterpiece is a portrait of the childhood and adolescence of octogenarian Taiwanese puppet master Read More »
The Office Wife (1930) Lloyd Bacon, Michael Curtiz, Dorothy Mackaill, Lewis Stone, Natalie Moorhead
Larry Fellowes of Fellowes Publishing wants Kate to write her next book about the ‘Office Wife’. Read More »
Treasure of Monte Cristo (1949) William Berke, Glenn Langan, Adele Jergens, Steve Brodie
This modern tale borrows from an old story in establishing Langan, who works on a ship that docks in San Francisco Read More »
The 10th Victim AKA La decima vittima (1965) Elio Petri, Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli
It is the 21st Century, and society’s lust for violence is satisfied by “The Big Hunt,” an international game of legalized murder. Read More »
The Bride of Frank (1996) Steve Ballot, Morgan Tara, Frank Meyer, Johnny Horizon
Disturbed and Hideously ugly ‘Warehouse Worker’ Frank dates then murders women Read More »
Appassionata AKA Jo no mai (1984) Sadao Nakajima, Mariko Okada, Yûko Natori, Morio Kazama, Kei Satô
Tsuya Shimamura, is born in Kyoto as the second daughter of a tea trader who dies before her birth. Read More »
Container (2006) Lukas Moodysson, Jena Malone, Peter Lorentzon, Mariha Åberg
Poetic, experimental and different, Container is described by Lukas Moodysson as “a black Read More »
Loving Couples AKA Älskande par (1964) Mai Zetterling, Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Gio Petré
Stockholm, 1915. Three women, Agda, Adele and Angela are about to give birth in a clinic. Read More »