Four directors tell tales of Eros fit for a 1970s Decameron. Working-class lovers, Renzo and Luciana, marry but must hide Read More »
Under the Domim Tree AKA Etz Hadomim Tafus (1994) Eli Cohen, Gila Almagor, Juliano Mer-Khamis, Uri Avrahami
Aviya is the only Israeli-born girl among her schoolmates (the rest are Holocaust survivors from various European countries) Read More »
Blue Water, White Death (1971) Peter Gimbel, James Lipscomb, Tom Chapin, Phil Clarkson, Stuart Cody
Peter Gimbel and a team of photographers set out on an expedition to find and Film Read More »
Woman Obsessed (1959) Henry Hathaway, Susan Hayward, Stephen Boyd, Barbara Nichols
After her husband dies in a fire, a woman is left to tend for her young son and the family farm on her own. Read More »
Seventeen (1983) Joel DeMott, Jeff Kreines
In their final year at Muncie’s Southside High School, a group of seniors hurtles toward maturity with a combination of joy Read More »
How to Cook Your Life (2007) Doris Dörrie, Edward Espe Brown
Doris Dörrie’s camera greets Edward Espe Brown when he arrives in Australia to give a class on cooking, Zen, and meditation. Read More »
Nightmare Detective AKA Akumu tantei (2006) Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Ryûhei Matsuda, Hitomi, Masanobu Andô
Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares. Read More »
The Teachers on Summer Vacation AKA Magistrarna på sommarlov (1941) Schamyl Bauman, Alice Babs, Karl-Arne Holmsten, Thor Modéen
Inga Danell’s summer vacation is near. But unfortunately both Inga and her brother Acke have bad grades and are forced to study. Read More »
The Singing Fool (1928) Lloyd Bacon, Al Jolson, Betty Bronson, Josephine Dunn
Al Stone is singing waiter in a speakeasy who is in love with Molly, the singing star at the speakeasy, but she spurns him. Read More »
The El Paso Kid (1946) Thomas Carr, Sunset Carson, Marie Harmon, Hank Patterson
In this Western, an outlaw tries to escape from a gang of robbers after they refuse to assist a gang member wounded during a stagecoach caper. Read More »