Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical director of a New York department store in fiscal straits. Read More »
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Belle toujours (2006) Manoel de Oliveira, Michel Piccoli, Bulle Ogier, Ricardo Trêpa, Drama, Music
Belle toujours happened to me suddenly and, as I had the will to pay my tribute to Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière, I had been happy to have discovered a means to accomplish this, Read More »
A Talking Picture (2003) Manoel de Oliveira, Leonor Silveira, Filipa de Almeida, John Malkovich, Comedy, Drama, History, War
A meditation on culture. July, 2001: buddies tide as a cruise boat departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and also the Indian Ocean. Read More »
That Day on the Beach (1983) Edward Yang, Sylvia Chang, Ming Hsu, Terry Hu, Drama
Two friends who have not seen each other for two years return. One is a powerful concert pianist back from a European tour and another has only started a brand new small business. Read More »
Winter Light (1963) Ingmar Bergman, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Gunnel Lindblom, Drama
On a chilly winter Sunday, the pastor of a tiny African American church (Tomas Ericsson) performs support for a very small congregation; however he’s dealing with a cold and a serious crisis of faith. Read More »
A Borrowed Life (1994) Nien-Jen Wu, Akio Chen, Jun Fu, Yung-Feng Lee, Drama
Sega, a Taiwanese born in the years of Japanese rule, felt nearer to Western nationality and culture compared to Mainland Chinese government who took over in 1945. Read More »
52 Pick-Up (1986) John Frankenheimer, Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity, Crime, Thriller
He has been put up, and they need $100,000. To guard his wife’s political ambitions, Harry will not go to the authorities; rather, he excels them and then does not pay. Read More »
The Price of Power (1969) Tonino Valerii, Giuliano Gemma, Warren Vanders, María Cuadra, Western
Italian manager Tonino Valerii recreates a fistful of JFK conspiracy theories in Western configurations with this eccentric look in the assassination of President James Garfield at 1890 Dallas. Read More »
Paris Blues (1961) Martin Ritt, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier, Drama, Music, Romance
Ram Bowen and Eddie Cook are two expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris where, unlike the US at the time, Jazz musicians are celebrated and racism is a non-issue. Read More »
Reisende auf einem Bein (Voyager sur une jambe) (2016) Alexandru Petru Badelita, Sonia Casandra Andreica, Jérémie Veyres, Judith Mauthe, Drama
Back in 1985, in Communist Romania, the twelve year old Irene falls deeply in love with a German, Franz. Read More »