Robert Altman’s jazz-scored film explores themes of love, crime, race, and politics in 1930s Kansas City. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
Kapò (1960) Gillo Pontecorvo, Susan Strasberg, Laurent Terzieff, Emmanuelle Riva
Kapo is a black and white film that tells the story of a Jewish teenager Read More »
Le golem (1967) Jean Kerchbron, André Reybaz, Georges Douking, François Vibert
A man mistakes hat during a religious service. In dream, he will relive the life Read More »
Sweet Deceptions / I dolci inganni (1960) Alberto Lattuada, Christian Marquand, Catherine Spaak, Jean Sorel
Francesca, a 17-year old school girl, has a vivid dream of making love to Enrico Read More »
Samba Traoré (1992) Idrissa Ouedraogo, Bakary Sangaré, Mariam Kaba, Abdoulaye Komboudri
Samba Traore returns to his village flush with funds. Read More »
The Gate of Sun / Bab el shams (2004) Yusri Nasrullah, Hiam Abbass, Fadi Abi Samra, Hussein Abou Seada
Yousry Nasrallah’s powerful adaptation of Lebanese writer Elias Khoury’s epic novel of fifty years of Palestinian dispossession Read More »
Histoires d’Amérique: Food, Family and Philosophy (1989) Chantal Akerman, Mark Amitin, Eszter Balint, Kirk Baltz
The stories of Jewish immigrants in New York City are told with characteristic humor. Read More »
The Taste of Others / Le goût des autres (2000) Agnès Jaoui, Anne Alvaro, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Alain Chabat
Three men, three women, opposites, possibilities, and tastes. Castella owns a industrial steel barrel plant in Rouen Read More »
Ways of Love / Jofroi (1933) Marcel Pagnol, Vincent Scotto, Henri Poupon, Annie Toinon
In a country town of Provence, a landowner threatens to kill himself after Read More »
Skin of Man, Heart of Beast / Peau d’homme coeur de bête (1999) Hélène Angel, Serge Riaboukine, Bernard Blancan, Pascal Cervo
Its the story of a guy who returns to his family after being gone for fifteen years. Read More »