A groom (Philip Salvador) takes his city bride (Cecille Castillo) to his hometown to settle in his father’s house. Struck by her uncanny resemblance to his dead wife, the patriarch (Vic Silayan) is driven to lust after his daughter-in-law. When things come to a head, a violent family quarrel ensues and leads to tragedy. A middle-aged spinster (Charito Solis) recounts the tale to reveal her identity and trace the downfall of the landowning clan trapped in the past.Read More »
“Mina Tannenbaum” follows the ups and downs of a long-term friendship between two Jewish French women.
Young Mina and Ethel meet at ballet class, and instantly take to each other. Through the years, they maintain their closeness, even when their paths diverge. Mina, thin and lovely, goes through a period of intense shyness and then tries to become a successful artist; the plumper Ethel, insecure and often ashamed of her body, struggles to get her career as a journalist off the ground.
Then a misunderstanding threatens the relationship… with potentially tragic results.Read More »
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A simple act of purchasing a hat unexpectedly unleashes a man’s long suppressed feelings of fear and guilt and plunges him into the world of ever-increasing paranoia.Read More »
Earthquake is a 1974 American ensemble disaster film that achieved outstanding box office returns, continuing the disaster film genre of the 1970s where recognizable all-star casts attempt to survive life or death situations. The plot concerns the struggle for survival after a catastrophic earthquake destroys most of the city of Los Angeles, California.
Directed by Mark Robson and with a screenplay by George Fox and Mario Puzo, the film starred a large cast of well-known actors, including Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, Geneviève Bujold, Richard Roundtree, Marjoe Gortner, Barry Sullivan, Lloyd Nolan, Victoria Principal, and (under an alias) Walter Matthau. It is notable for the use of an innovative sound effect called Sensurround which created the sense of actually experiencing an earthquake in theatres.Read More »
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One of the most admired Danish films of all time, Bjarne Henning-Jensen’s Ditte Menneskebarn is the story of a poor girl born out of wedlock (Jette Kehlet plays the child Ditte, then Tove Maës) whose mother (Karen Lykkehus) is an abusive adulterer who nearly kills her eldest daughter. Ditte grows up with her grandmother (wonderfully played by Karen Poulsen), but is ill equipped to later fend for herself as a maid on a large farm. Impregnated and abandoned by the weak-willed son of the house (Preben Neergaard), Ditte, just like her mother, will have to face the future as a social outcast. The original novel was by Martin Andersen Nexø (Pelle the Conqueror), a writer who used a very broad pencil indeed. The American reviewers (who saw the film in 1950 sans several scenes of a nude Maës) certainly thought so, dismissing the film as mere melodrama. Some of the performances are difficult to take for a modern audience, but, overall, the film still has the power to move.
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Peter Von Kant, a successful, famous director, lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. Through the great actress Sidonie, he meets and falls in love with Amir, a handsome young man of modest means.Read More »
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The story of the birth of a love between two young people, about its duration, with all the difficulties and beauty that it brings, about the extinguishing of that love due to conflicts with the exaggerated dynamics and false values of contemporary life.
The plot of this film relates to the lives of several young people from a school in Belgrade, as well as their problems. It mainly follows the life of Miloš Petrović (Gojko Drulović), who meets Višnja (Neda Arnerić). Višnja is portrayed as a very beautiful girl who likes to flirt and please people, which doesn’t suit Miloš, who is in love, because he wants to have what he loves next to him…Read More »
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For a 13-year-old boy like Filipe, (played by José Afonso Pimentel) the prospect of a summer vacation in the Azores with his father (played by João Lagarto) is like a dream come true. It’s a time for them to become re-acquainted and it’s also a time for his first girlfriend and annoying questions to his father about love and sex.Read More »
After finishing what would become his international phenomenon Rashomon, Akira Kurosawa immediately turned to one of the most daring, and problem-plagued, productions of his career. The Idiot, an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s nineteenth-century masterpiece about a wayward, pure soul’s reintegration into society—updated by Kurosawa to capture Japan’s postwar aimlessness—was a victim of studio interference and, finally, public indifference. Today, this “folly” looks ever more fascinating, a stylish, otherworldly evocation of one man’s wintry mindscape.Read More »