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Since the 7th century AD, Sado has been called the “island of exile”. Unwelcomed people by the shogunate were exiled and put to forced labour in the mines. Their spirits, trapped in the depths of the earth, will never see the sky again.Read More »
Justine, who goes by Junior, is a 13-year-old tomboy with pimples and a unique sense of humor. After unexpectedly contracting a stomach virus, her body becomes home to a bizarre metamorphosis.Read More »
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Keiko, a high school girl from private Yotsuba Gakuen. It may not be her own responsibility that the 17-year-old girl, who is about to enter college, is suddenly out of the way. Poor couples, uncomfortable homes, teachers of the highest grade, high school life that seems to be breathless. One day, Keiko, who had a head-on conflict with her teacher, began to go to snacks and discos with the invitation of a delinquent group, and eventually fell off the road to runaway, drinking, marijuana, dating with gangsters, prostitution, and drugs. To go–.Read More »
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Unashamedly nostalgic, and almost autobiographical, ‘My Favorite Year’ has a standout performance by Peter O’Toole, who was Oscar nominated. The clips we see of Alan Swann’s great roles come from O’Toole’s earlier films, Lord Jim and Great Catherine.
Produced by Mel Brooks, who wrote for Sid Caesar (Kaiser, geddit?) in the early years of television, the plot is a fictionalisation of Errol Flynn’s appearance on Caesar’s “Your Show of Shows”. In reality Brooks and Flynn never even met, and the show passed off without incident, but the film is a great alternative reality.Read More »
A teacher newly released from prison renegotiates the confines of the physical world while forced to face his nightmare in the flesh.Read More »
Plot: Philippe, a student, is sent to jail for manhandling his father’s business partner, who blackmailed the poor man and caused his death. He shares his cell with two mates: easily offended Théo Giulani and jovial Bob Daniels, with whom he soon establishes a bond of friendship. Still obsessed by the idea of avenging his father, Philippe enters into a pact with the two men: they will break into the partner’s office, force open his safe and seize the document exposing the criminal. As a reward, Théo and Bob will get away with the money and the diamonds there. But the police is in the know…Read More »
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This bitingly funny comedy follows a prickly, profanity-prone man seeking to preserve his dream; it dishes up bites of wisdom along the way, ultimately serving both a hilarious trip and a charming slice of New York history.Read More »
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Henrik Ibsen’s 1877 play Samfundets Stotter (Pillars of Society) was the source for this German drama. The plot centers upon a flagrant case of municipal corruption, carried out by the town’s “finest” people. The selfishness of the elite results in widespread tragedy, yet still the perpetrators hypocritically blame everyone but themselves. The director of Stutzen der Gesellschaft was Detlef Sierck, who as “Douglas Sirk” would later expose the peccadilloes of the rich and powerful in such American films as Written on the Wind. The Ibsen original was earlier adapted to the screen in 1915, with H. B. Walthall in the lead.Read More »
At the end of the nineteenth century, Russia, Prince Nekhlyudov, on the verge of contracting a marriage of convenience, leads a superficial and mundane life. He is appointed juror in the trial of a woman in whom he recognizes Katyusha, a woman he once seduced and abandoned pregnant.Read More »