Holmes and Watson are recruited in a serpentine fashion to escort the heir to a European throne back to his native country following his father’s assassination. Read More »
My Man Godfrey (1936) Gregory La Cava, William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady
In the depths of the Depression, a party game brings dizzy socialite Irene Bullock to the city dump where she meets Godfrey, a derelict, and ends by hiring him as family butler. Read More »
The Miracle of Marcelino (1955) Ladislao Vajda, Rafael Rivelles, Antonio Vico, Juan Calvo
Marcelino Pan y Vino is the story of a 5-year-old boy who was abandoned by his mother in front of a Franciscan Monastery when he was a baby. Read More »
Garden of Delights (1967) Silvano Agosti, Maurice Ronet, Ida Galli, Lea Massari
A ceremony. A wedding night. A hotel room. A leaking toilet. A man and a woman … and another woman. Read More »
Hold Back the Dawn (1941) Mitchell Leisen
Told in flashback from a preface in which the main character visits Paramount to sell his story! Read More »
Green Snake (1993) Hark Tsui, Maggie Cheung, Joey Wang, Wenzhuo Zhao
Two snakes reformed into two beauties. White Snake chose pedagogue Xian Xu as her husband and enjoyed human life, while Green Snake played around every day. Read More »
Blossoms in the Dust (1941) Mervyn LeRoy, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. Read More »
Sweet Little Lies (2010) Hitoshi Yazaki, Miki Nakatani, Nao Ômori, Jûichi Kobayashi
Underneath the veneer of orderly lives, frozen smiles and awkward averted glances, SWEET LITTLE LIES is a cold-as-steel clinical study of a couple. Read More »
Ringos Big Night (1966) Mario Maffei, William Berger, Adriana Ambesi, Eduardo Fajardo
Four masked men rob money from a stagecoach en route to a bank in Tombstone. The federal government vows to catch the culprits and recover the money. Read More »
Babaric Land (2013) Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi
Every era has its fascism. A film necessary for us at this time, over fascism and colonialism. Read More »