A Chinese emperor prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. Read More »
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The Night Before Christmas / Vechera na khutore bliz Dikanki (1961) Aleksandr Rou, Aleksandr Khvylya, Lyudmila Myznikova, Yuri Tavrov
The whimsical combination of Christmas phantasmagoria and an eccentric fairy tale Read More »
The Stranglers of Bombay (1959) Terence Fisher, Guy Rolfe, Allan Cuthbertson, Andrew Cruickshank
In the 1830s, a captain in the East India Company lobbies to investigate Read More »
Twelve Chairs / Zwölf Stühle (2004) Ulrike Ottinger, Georgiy Deliev, Gennadiy Skarga, Svetlana Dyagilyeva
In her glorious adaptation of Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov’s 1920s Soviet satirical novel Read More »
Holy Emy (2021) Araceli Lemos, Abigael Loma, Hasmine Killip, Eirini Inglesi
A young Filipina searches for the missing links between her strange bleeding condition Read More »
Sidewalk Stories (1989) Charles Lane, Nicole Alysia, Tom Alpern
Nearly silent comedy filmed in black and white follows a street artist (Charles Lane) Read More »
Chocolat (1988) Claire Denis, Isaach De Bankolé, Giulia Boschi, François Cluzet
A French woman returns to her childhood home in Cameroon Read More »
On the Run / Mong ming yuen yeung (1988) Alfred Cheung, Biao Yuen, Pat Ha, Charlie Chin
When his wife, also working for the the police, but in a different department Read More »
The Innocent / Al Baree’ (1986) Atef El-Tayeb, Ahmed Zaki, Mamdouh Abd El Aleem, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz
A simple minded peasant was recruited in the Egyptian army Read More »
Shadow of the Vampire (2000) E. Elias Merhige, John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Udo Kier
Shadow of the Vampire is a film about the making of a German all time classic silent Read More »