Muriel, François and René, three childhood friends from a working class neighbourhood of Marseille Read More »
Tag Archives: France
Les trois couronnes du matelot / Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983) Raoul Ruiz, Jean-Bernard Guillard, Philippe Deplanche, Nadège Clair
A drunken sailor recounts the surrealistic odyssey of his life story to a murderous student. Read More »
Bill il taciturno / Django Kills Silently (1967) Massimo Pupillo, George Eastman, Liana Orfei, Luciano Rossi
Django arrives in the town of Santa Anna at the behest of a man named Sanders who’d been trying Read More »
Birds of Prey (1968) José Giovanni, Lino Ventura, Rosa Furman, Aurora Clavel
Vera Cruz, 1938. “Le Rital”, a tough French hit man, agrees to serve Mexican revolutionaries Read More »
Shoot, Gringo… Shoot! / Spara, Gringo, spara (1968) Bruno Corbucci, Brian Kelly, Fabrizio Moroni, Keenan Wynn
Chad Stark is offered his life and a nice ammount of dollars if he is to bring back the runaway son of mexican land-owner Gutierrez. Read More »
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse / Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1933) Fritz Lang, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Gustav Diessl
After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum (Oscar Beregi) Read More »
Urgences (1988) Raymond Depardon
A documentary filmed in the psychiatric ward of the Motel Dieu at a large hospital in Paris. Read More »
The Boldest Job in the West (1972) José Antonio de la Loma, Mark Edwards, Carmen Sevilla, Charly Bravo
A bandit gang successfully executes a complicated bank heist but disagreements arise in the aftermath and mass gunplay unfolds. Read More »
The Sun / Solntse (2005) Aleksandr Sokurov, Issei Ogata, Robert Dawson, Kaori Momoi
As Japan nears defeat at the end of World War II, Emperor Hirohito starts his day in a bunker Read More »
Lancelot du lac / Lancelot of the Lake (1974) Robert Bresson, Luc Simon, Laura Duke Condominas, Humbert Balsan
Having failed in their quest for the Holy Grail, the knights of the Round Table return to Camelot Read More »