Shingu, a coastal village in Wakayama Prefecture, early 20th century. Midwife Oryu (Terajima Shinobu) Read More »
A Dispatch from Reuters (1940) William Dieterle, Edward G. Robinson, Edna Best, Eddie Albert
Starting with a small flock of carrier pigeons, nineteenth-century entrepreneur Julius Reuter Read More »
The Marriage of Chiffon AKA Le mariage de Chiffon (1942) Claude Autant-Lara, Odette Joyeux, André Luguet, Jacques Dumesnil
Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called “Chiffon”, who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. Read More »
Dance Hall (1950) Charles Crichton, Natasha Parry, Jane Hylton, Diana Dors
Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London. Read More »
People on Sunday AKA Menschen am Sonntag (1930) Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, Erwin Splettstößer, Brigitte Borchert, Wolfgang von Waltershausen
Edwin, a taxi driver, lives with Annie, a neurasthenic model. They plan to spend Sunday at the Nikolassee beach with Wolfgang Read More »
Beware of a Holy Whore AKA Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte (1971) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Lou Castel, Eddie Constantine, Marquard Bohm
On a film set there are two things missing, the film material and the director. Read More »
The Stendhal Syndrome AKA La sindrome di Stendhal (1996) Dario Argento, Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi
Anna Manni is a policewoman trying to capture a vicious serial rapist and killer. Read More »
Hustawka (2010) Tomasz Lewkowicz, Wojciech Zielinski, Joanna Orleanska, Karolina Gorczyca
35-year-old Michal (Wojciech Zielinski) has a beautiful wife, Anna (Joanna of Orleans) and daughter Justine. Read More »
2/Duo (1997) Nobuhiro Suwa, Eri Yu, Miyuki Yamamoto, Hidetoshi Nishijima
Yu, an employee at a clothing boutique, lives with Kei, an out-of-work actor who lives off of her. Read More »
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly AKA Le scaphandre et le papillon (2007) Julian Schnabel, Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze
Forty-three year old Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby – Jean-Do to his friends – awakens not knowing where he is. Read More »