When Stuart Shorter – a homeless alcoholic with a violent past – meets writer Read More »
El Lazarillo de Tormes (1959) César Fernández Ardavín, Marco Paoletti, Juanjo Menéndez, Carlos Casaravilla
An adaptation of the anonymous sixteenth century novel Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), it tells the story of Lazarillo Read More »
Journal of a Crime (1934) William Keighley, Ruth Chatterton, Adolphe Menjou, Claire Dodd
A wife shoots her husband’s mistress. Afterwards, she is tormented by guilt when someone else is blamed for the crime. Read More »
An Inn at Osaka (1954) Heinosuke Gosho, Shûji Sano, Nobuko Otowa, Mitsuko Mito
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company Read More »
Salvo (2013) Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza, Saleh Bakri, Luigi Lo Cascio, Sara Serraiocco
An assassin for the Sicilian mafia, Salvo is solitary, cold and ruthless. Read More »
And I’ll Run to the Ends of the Earth (1979) Peter Solan, Anetka Lakatosová, Ivan Mistrík, Hana Pastejríková
Majka “Chatterbox” is a girl entering adolescence. She was born with a minor disability. Read More »
Detective Malone (1991) Black Cobra 4
A gang of terrorists kidnap an electronics engineer, hold him hostage Read More »
Navy Blues (1941) Lloyd Bacon, Ann Sheridan, Jack Oakie, Martha Raye
On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets Read More »
Augustin, King of Kung-Fu (1999) Anne Fontaine
Augustin Dos Santos is back. He still wants to be an actor and, this time Read More »
Pine Flat (2006) Sharon Lockhart, Amy Bates, Jessica Blain, Matthew Blain
Set in a small town in the Sierra Nevadas, Pine Flat is a look at youth and a meditation on nature, socialization, and solitude. Read More »