It may be the first time they have used the theory of relativity in a story.Read More »

Documentary covering the 1946-48 Tokyo Trials.Read More »

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In Rio de Janeiro’s bohemian district called Lapa, during the ’40s, a stylish and popular scoundrel exploits a cabaret singer, and earns his living by means of petty swindles. But then he meets Ludmila, the cabaret owner’s daughter, who wants to get rich smuggling goods in times of war.Read More »

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Tourné dans un atelier de la banlieue parisienne où l’on fabrique des mannequins pour les vitrines de magasins, un film poétique et nourri de références surréalistes.

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Shot in a workshop on the outskirts of Paris where mannequins are made for shop windows, a poetic film full of surrealist references.Read More »

Rhythmic pumping, reminiscent of steamboat pistons, accompanies the huge mechanical glass doors as they swing open and shut to accommodate a steady stream of people. Welcome to the machine! – the words beat the same rhythm in my head. And indeed, the world we have just been invited to enter does in fact resemble a futurist machine. It is a colossus of concrete and glass, with a heart deep inside, a computer heart pulsating with an endless stream of data, while hundreds of beings in its labyrinthine veins are busy or trying to keep the coursing data under control, the effort – invoking a curious language: cis, Cas, keeping and – in ocs, Tkna… (from press sheet)Read More »

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When a father gets out of prison, he comes home to his wife and two teen-age kids to pick up where he left off. That is to say, he intends to raise his kids right and continue burglarizing his way into the easy life. He joins up again with his old partner Faucon, but early on Papa’s wily son cons him into making him a partner too. The years go by, and just when the family seems poised for the big time, an obstacle pops up from a totally unexpected sector…Read More »

Narcissistic male model manipulates and exploits others for wealth and hedonism, committing murder without remorse, believing himself invincible and able to control anyone.Read More »

A henpecked New Jersey grocer makes plans to move to California to grow oranges, despite the resistance of his overbearing wife.Read More »

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One Crowded Night, the 1940 Irving Reis crime mystery melodrama, brings a story (in true “Grand Hotel” fashion) about a group of unrelated people at a small struggling motor lodge in the Mojave Desert, and all of them have crucial events occur to them during one fateful night. Former gun moll Gladys (Billie Seward) hopes to find happiness with honest truckdriver Joe (William Haade), but her past catches up with her in the form of escaped convict Jim (Paul Guilfoyle). Lunch-counter waitress Annie (Gale Storm) allows gas station attendant Vince (Dick Hogan) to flirt with her. Young mother-to-be Ruth (Adele Pearce), on the verge of giving birth, is unexpectedly reunited with her AWOL sailor husband Mat (Gaylord Pendleton). Quack doctor Joseph (J. M. Kerrigan) tries to peddle his miracle elixir. A pair of gunmen show up to knock off Jim, a couple of MPs arrive to pick up Mat, and so it goes?.Read More »