Sam Spade is quite the womanizer. When his secretary tells him the new customer waiting outside his office is a knockout Read More »
Port of Seven Seas (1938) James Whale, Wallace Beery, Frank Morgan, Maureen O’Sullivan
Madelon and Marius intend to marry but he finds the call of the ocean irresistible and leaves her and his father behind. Read More »
Love Leads the Way: A True Story (1984) Delbert Mann, Timothy Bottoms, Eva Marie Saint, Arthur Hill
When an insurance salesman is blinded in a boxing accident, his world is turned upside down Read More »
Harlow (1965) Alex Segal, Carol Lynley, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Ginger Rogers
One of two “Harlow” film biographies that appeared in 1965, this one stars Carol Lynley Read More »
Colossal Youth (2006) Pedro Costa, Ventura, Vanda Duarte, Beatriz Duarte
After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon Read More »
The Fatalist (2005) João Botelho, Rogério Samora, André Gomes, Rita Blanco, Suzana Borges
Everything good or bad that happens to us “down here” is written “up there”. Read More »
Woman Wanted (1935) George B. Seitz, Maureen O’Sullivan, Joel McCrea, Lewis Stone
Ann Grey is wrongly convicted of murder. On her way to jail a car accident gives her the opportunity to escape. Read More »
Too Early, Too Late (1982) Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Bahgat Elnadi, Gérard Samaan
A sequence of shots of rural landscapes accompanied by readings of texts about the struggles of poor farmers. Read More »
Spy Sorge (2003) Masahiro Shinoda, Iain Glen, Masahiro Motoki, Kippei Shîna
A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outbreak of World War II Read More »
Smooth Talk (1985) Joyce Chopra, Treat Williams, Laura Dern, Mary Kay Place
Free-spirited fifteen-year-old Connie Wyatt may be too young to drive, but she’s already driving the boys crazy. Read More »