An exhilarating and amusing encyclopedic look at the “prehistory” of cinema. Read More »
Fire Down Below (1957) Robert Parrish, Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon, Adventure, Drama
Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. Read More »
Erosu purasu Gyakusatsu / Eros Plus Massacre (1969) Yoshishige Yoshida, Mariko Okada, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Yûko Kusunoki, Biography, Drama
In the 1920s, the anarchist revolutionary Sakae Osugi is financially supported by his wife, journalist Itsuko Masaoka. Read More »
Elmer Gantry (1960) Richard Brooks, Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Drama
Elmer Gantry is a fast-talking, hard-drinking traveling salesman who always has a risqué story and a hip flask to entertain cronies and customers alike. Read More »
Crazy House (1943) Edward F. Cline, Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Cass Daley, Comedy, Musical
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. Read More »
A cavallo della tigre / On the Tigers Back (1961) Luigi Comencini, Nino Manfredi, Mario Adorf, Valeria Moriconi, Comedy, Drama
This well-acted though conventional comedy-drama by director Luigi Comencini features comic Nino Manfredi in the title role of Giacinto, a father and husband who has been driven to steal in order to survive. Read More »
Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987) Mike Newell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Gregory Peck, Dean Alexander, Drama, Sport
Chuck Murdock is an all American kid living in a sleepy town in Montana. He is the top pitcher of the little league team as well. Read More »
Vampires Kiss (1988) Robert Bierman, Nicolas Cage, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Beals, Comedy, Horror
A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a woman and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to come to terms with his delusions. Read More »
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2003) Mark Bittner, Judy Irving, Documentary
In San Francisco, there are at least two flocks of largely wild parrots who flock around the city. Read More »
Pelle the Conqueror (1987) Bille August, Pelle Hvenegaard, Max von Sydow, Erik Paaske, Drama
The end of the 19th century. A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Read More »