The story of the marriage of England’s King Arthur to Guinevere is played out amid the pagentry of Camelot. Read More »
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Enbalming AKA Enbamingu (1999) Shinji Aoyama, Kôjirô Hongô, Masatoshi Matsuo, Yutaka Matsushige
Young female embalmer Miyako while performing the embalming process the head of the corpse shes restoring is stolen. Read More »
Man with a Movie Camera AKA Chelovek s kino-apparatom (1929) Dziga Vertov, Mikhail Kaufman
Soviet director Dziga Vertov’s experimental film grew out of his belief, shared by his editor Read More »
Crazy Mama (1975) Jonathan Demme, Cloris Leachman, Stuart Whitman, Ann Sothern
Jonathan Demme directs this joyous relentlessly kitschy celebration of 1950s America: opportunity, rock’n’roll, and the road. Read More »
Pit Stop (1969) Jack Hill, Brian Donlevy, Richard Davalos, Ellen Burstyn
Grant Willard sponsors drivers in a “new” form of race car driving called The Figure Eight. Read More »
Children of Paradise AKA Les enfants du paradis (1945) Marcel Carné, Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur
Strolling indolently around the 1830s vibrant Parisian avenue called the Boulevard du Crime Read More »
Billy Budd (1962) Peter Ustinov, Robert Ryan, Melvyn Douglas
H.M.S. Avenger is headed into battle against the French fleet during the Napoleonic Wars Read More »
The Carrier (1988) Nathan J. White, Gregory Fortescue, Stevie Lee, Steve Dixon
The main character is stricken with a horrible disease, but it doesn’t affect him. Read More »
The Lady in Red Kills Seven Times AKA La dama rossa uccide sette volte (1972) Emilio Miraglia, Barbara Bouchet, Ugo Pagliai, Marina Malfatti
When two sisters inherit their family castle, a string of murders committed by a mysterious dark haired woman Read More »
Spite Marriage (1929) Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton, Dorothy Sebastian, Edward Earle
Elmer is a dry cleaner. He is madly in love with stage star Trilby Drew; for each of her 35 performances Read More »