• Raoul Walsh – Pursued [+Commentary] (1947)

    1941-1950DramaRaoul WalshUSAWestern

    Description: After his family is murdered in the 1880s, orphan Jeb Rand (Robert Mitchum) is raised by the Callum family on their nearby horse ranch. He remains haunted by this childhood trauma in a recurring nightmare of flashing spurs and confinement inside a trap door as his family is slaughtered. Widow Callum (Dame Judith Anderson) does her best to make Jeb feel loved as he is growing up, but the young man stubbornly maintains a sense of his own identity. While he has great affection for his foster-sister Thor (Teresa Wright), his relationship with her brother Adam (John Rodney) is tenuous at best, especially when Jeb blames him for shooting a colt that he was riding.Read More »

  • Roger Vadim – Barbarella (1968)

    1961-1970ActionFranceRoger VadimSci-Fi

    In the 41st century, an astronaut seeks to stop an evil scientist who threatens to unleash a powerful weapon upon the galaxy.Read More »

  • Miha Hocevar – Jebiga AKA Fuck It (2000)

    1991-2000ComedyDramaMiha HocevarSlovenia

    Quote:
    This movie is very funny, but lacks a plot (this can be justified by it’s title, meaning a sort of Who gives a f…). But considering our countries lack of financial support when it comes to film making, this one turned to be all right. And it truly has some exceptionally great scenes. A great summer movie.

    It holds the 10th place in Slovenia according to visitors in cinema.Read More »

  • Jacques Tourneur – Timbuktu (1958)

    1951-1960ActionAdventureJacques TourneurUSA

    This adventure yarn by director Jacques Tourneur is set in the French Sudan during the beginning of World War II, when the French Foreign Legion was doing battle with the Tuaregs. In order to bring a halt to the hostilities, a powerful Muslim religious leader has to make it to Timbuktu, the center of the conflict. In the meantime, an American merchant-adventurer (Victor Mature) is helping out the French commander of the garrison at Timbuktu, and falling in love with the commander’s wife (Yvonne De Carlo). Between the forbidden romance, the journey of the Muslim leader, and the angry Tuaregs, there are no dull moments even if the tension is not exactly unbearable.Read More »

  • Yves-Marie Mahé – Jeune cinéma (2023)

    2001-2010DocumentaryFranceYves-Marie Mahé

    Synopsis
    From 1965 to 1983, Hyères hosted the Festival International du Jeune Cinéma. Archival materials, unfold a dazzling fresco of splendors and miseries, with stars and nobodies, while the main event loses itself in, and to the zeitgeist.Read More »

  • Donald Crombie – Caddie (1976)

    1971-1980AustraliaClassicsDonald CrombieDrama

    Caddie tells the story of a Sydney woman, Caddie, (Helen Morse) in the late nineteen twenties, early thirties, as she leaves an adulterous, violent husband, and finds work as a barmaid to support herself and her two children, with Jack Weaver and Melissa Jaffer as two friendly barmaids who show her the ropes.

    She is tempted by a flash bookie Ted (Jack Thompson), who calls her Caddie because she has the same class as his new Cadillac.Read More »

  • Clarence Brown – Intruder in the Dust (1949)

    1941-1950Clarence BrownCrimeDramaUSA

    Description: Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. Quickly arrested for murder and jailed, Beauchamp insists he’s innocent and asks the town’s most prominent lawyer, Gavin Stevens, to defend him, but Stevens refuses. When a local boy whom Beauchamp has helped in the past and who believes him to be innocent hears talk of a mob taking Beauchamp out of jail and lynching him, he pleads with Stevens to defend Beauchamp at trial and prove his innocence.Read More »

  • Sam Wood – Paid (1930)

    Drama1931-1940CrimeSam WoodUSA

    Mary Turner gets a three year prison sentence for a crime she didn’t commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her conviction.Read More »

  • Carlos Saura – La tarde del domingo (1957)

    1951-1960Carlos SauraDramaShort FilmSpainSpanish cinema under Franco

    SYNOPSIS:
    One Sunday in September. Clara is a young maid who barely knows how to read, she is a kind of Cinderella that explodes mercilessly. Clara plans to spend Sunday afternoon in the company of other chacha, go to El Retiro for a walk, go to a dance with friends, flirt, but Clara feels distressed, feels isolated in the midst of people.Read More »

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