In WWII Pat Jamieson is a scientist working, with Government support, on a high-altitude oxygen mask for fighter pilots. Read More »
Wild Duck (2013) Yannis Sakaridis, Alexandros Logothetis, Themis Bazaka, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos, Drama
“Wild Duck” is the story of Dimitris, a telecommunications engineer who’s forced to shutter his business after running up a considerable debt with a local loan shark. Read More »
Hadduta misrija / An Egyptian Story (1982) Youssef Chahine, Oussama Nadir, Mohsen Mohieddin, Nour El-Sherif, Drama
In the middle of his own heart surgery, an Egyptian filmmaker remembers his life. In fact his old self, as a child, is accused of attempted murder of his new self. Read More »
Iskanderija, kaman oue kaman / Alexandria Again and Forever (1989) Youssra, Youssef Chahine, Hussein Fahmy, Drama
The film’s remarkable range of tone and style gives us evidence of an artist in full command of his craft. Read More »
The Princess Bride (1987) Rob Reiner, Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Robin Wright, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
An elderly man reads the book “The Princess Bride” to his sick and thus currently bedridden adolescent grandson Read More »
The Child (1977) Robert Voskanian, Laurel Barnett, Rosalie Cole, Frank Janson, Horror
A newly hired house-keeper in a secluded area is alarmed to discover that her boss’s eleven-year-old daughter is using her supernatural powers Read More »
The Safety of Objects (2001) Rose Troche, Glenn Close, Dermot Mulroney, Mary Kay Place, Drama
A series of overlapping stories about four suburban families dealing with different maladies. Read More »
Taxi, roulotte et corrida / Taxi, Trailer and Corrida (1958) André Hunebelle, Louis de Funès, Raymond Bussières, Annette Poivre, Comedy
Louis is a hard working but crazy Paris taxi driver. Today he’s finishing work for the summer holiday: his family is going to Spain with his sister-in-law and her family Read More »
Mujô / This Transient Life (1970) Akio Jissôji, Kotobuki Hananomoto, Akiji Kobayashi, Eiji Okada, Drama
Set around a remote Buddhist monastery, it features Masao, a young son of a rich merchant who doesn’t want to follow his father into business or go to college Read More »
Huan le ren jian / Change the World (1959) Tian Wu, Dezhang Bai, Qi Guo, Yiwen Guo, Drama
Wei uncle from the off with her daughter Shirley flee from famine came in the northeast, under the rule of the puppet work in the coalmine. Read More »