Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Read More »
Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema (1996) Stanley Kwan, Cheh Chang, Kaige Chen, Leslie Cheung
This highly personal film essay demonstrates that Chinese cinema has dealt with questions of gender and sexuality Read More »
The Falcon’s Alibi (1946) Ray McCarey, Tom Conway
A wealthy woman’s secretary, fearing that she will be blamed if her employer’s jewelry is stolen, hires the Falcon as guardian. Read More »
International Lady (1941) Tim Whelan
The film opens with a German air-raid over the skies of London Read More »
Weeds (1987) John D. Hancock, Nick Nolte
Lee Umstetter is a lifer at San Quentin prison and a multiple suicide attempter. Read More »
The Lost Squadron (1932) George Archainbaud
In hard times just after World War I, three ex-fighter pilots manage to land jobs Read More »
Our Time (1974) Peter Hyams, Pamela Sue Martin
A student of Penfield girls school falls in love with a male student in 1955. Read More »
England Made Me (1973) Peter Duffell, Peter Finch
A story about an English businessman in 1930s Germany who encounters a financier who has forged his career on greed Read More »
Womanhandled (1925) Gregory La Cava, Richard Dix
Bill Dana, a New York City playboy, can resist the flaming flapper and red-hot mamas along the Great White Way Read More »
The Vulture (1981) Yaky Yosha, Shraga Harpaz
Boaz, a reserve soldier returns from the battlefield and becomes involved in editing a memorial Read More »