admin
-
Raoul Peck – Sometimes in April (2005)
The story centers on two brothers: Honoré Butera, working for Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, and Augustin Muganza, a…
Read More » -
Mikio Naruse – Nasanunaka AKA No Blood Relation (1932)
Quote:In No Blood Relation, a gripping early example of Mikio Naruse’s cinematic boldness, featuring a screenplay by Ozu’s famed collaborator…
Read More » -
Norman Foster – Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948)
Quote:Bill Saunders, a former prisoner of war living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable and violent, gets into…
Read More » -
Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Pekin no suika AKA Beijing Watermelon (1989)
Contemporary Japanese Film by Mark Schilling (1999): Topicality is tricky. Sylvester Stallone’s one-man war in Afghanistan in Rambo III might…
Read More » -
Paul Sloane – The Woman Accused (1933)
Synopsis:Jeffrey and Glenda are two lovers about to embark on a three-day cruise to nowhere. Their plan is to be…
Read More » -
Alfred Hitchcock – Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Synopsis:Johnny Jones is an action reporter on a New York newspaper. The editor appoints him European correspondent because he is…
Read More » -
Leo McCarey – The Awful Truth (1937)
Synopsis:Before their divorce becomes final, Jerry and Lucy Warriner both do their best to ruin each other’s plans for remarriage,…
Read More » -
Jeppe Rønde – Bridgend (2015)
Sara and her dad Dave move to a small village, which is haunted by suicides among its young inhabitants. Sara…
Read More » -
Mark Donskoy – Dorogoy tsenoy AKA The Horse That Cried (1957)
Also known as At Great Cost, this adaptation of a story by Mikhailo Kotsyubinsky—a Ukrainian writer executed in the Stalinist…
Read More »