Best known for his 1978 film The Deer Hunter or perhaps the less-successful Heaven’s Gate Read More »
The Tunnel (1935) Maurice Elvey, Richard Dix, Leslie Banks, Madge Evans
Engineers Richard McAllan and Frederick Robinson manage to get financial backing for a gigantic project to build a tunnel from England to America. Read More »
The Underground Orchestra AKA Het ondergrondse orkest (1998) Heddy Honigmann
THE UNDERGROUND ORCHESTRA is a glorious documentary profile of musicians who play on the sidewalks of Paris and in the Metro. Read More »
Island of Lost Men (1939) Kurt Neumann, Anna May Wong, J. Carrol Naish, Eric Blore
An altered remake of 1933’s “White Woman,” finds cabaret-singer Kim Ling, daughter of a Chinese general Read More »
First a Girl (1935) Victor Saville, Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Anna Lee
Elizabeth, a delivery girl, dreams of being a music-hall singer but she is refused at the first casting she takes part in. Read More »
At the First Breath of Wind AKA Al Primo Soffio di Vento (2002) Franco Piavoli, Primo Gaburri, Mariella Fabbris, Ida Carnevali
Tells the tale of an August day in the Lombardy countrysides. A family, idle and preoccupied, sits around a table after a summer lunch. Read More »
Speedway (1929) Harry Beaumont, William Haines, Anita Page, Ernest Torrence
Bill Whipple is a happy-go-lucky mechanic for MacDonald who thinks that he is the worlds greatest driver and lover. Read More »
Hedd Wyn (1992) Paul Turner, Huw Garmon, Catrin Fychan, Ceri Cunnington
A young poet living in the North Wales countryside competes for the most coveted prize of all in Welsh Poetry Read More »
The Singing Hill (1941) Lew Landers, Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Virginia Dale
If a young lady gives up her inheritance the local ranchers will lose their free grazing land. Read More »
High Season for Spies AKA Comando de asesinos (1966) Julio Coll, Antonio Vilar, Letícia Román, Peter van Eyck
A scientist discovers the formula of a particular resistant steel, and a spy ring from an enemy power sets after him to obtain it. Read More »