After finding her boss, a private detective, has committed suicide and has left her his agency, Cordelia Gray is asked to investigate the suicide of the man’s son. During the course of her investigation, Cordelia becomes obsessed with the young man’s memory and his increasingly suspicious death.Read More »
A deported gangster’s plan to re-enter the USA involves skulduggery at a Mexican resort, and gambler Dan Milner is caught in the middle.Read More »
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The role of the evangelical movement on Jair Bolsonaro’s rise to the presidency is explored with commentary from leading figures across the Brazilian political spectrum, including Bolsonaro’s left-wing successor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and televangelist Silas Malafaia, a close associate of Bolsonaro.[7] The documentary shows Malafaia to have had a defining influence on Bolsanaro, while mustering support from Brasil’s evangelical movement, in the path to Bolsanaro losing the 2022 presidential elections and in the protests and attempted insurrection that followed.Read More »
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Narcisus and Psyche is based on a novel by Sandor Weores which was adapted by Vilmos Csaplar and director Gabor Body for a feature-length, 261-minute film. Borrowing the character of Psyche from mythology and placing her in Europe in the 19th century, the authors give her a “modern” life. She is an attractive young woman – and remains so throughout the film, in spite of one hardship after another. Psyche is libidinous, and her prurient interests shock her staid contemporaries. For reasons that the viewer is left to ponder, her life is almost a living punishment for her sexual laxity. Her child is taken away and killed, and although she is in love with her tutor, who has syphilis, she marries another man. She is suffering herself from some affliction, which leads to hospital scenes that are acerbic commentaries on 19th c. Western medicine. Psyche is about to leave for America with her husband, when the story takes another abrupt turn.Read More »
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Austria, 1942: A deserter hides from his pursuers in the caves near a small mountain village. He only ventures outside at night to get food from his wife in the village. But the Gestapo and the local police are hot on the fugitive’s heels.
“In contrast to the fashionable bells and whistles and pleasing arts and crafts, in contrast to the average that is becoming more and more widespread in cinema, this quiet, dense “little” film is a feast for the eyes. Predominantly static shots, clear and simply structured black and white images remind us of what cinema actually is or should be about.” – (Süddeutsche Zeitung)Read More »
Bint El-Harass (Arabic: بنت الحارس) AKA The Guard Daughter is a Lebanese musical-drama directed by the Egyptian director Henry Barakat (known for Doa al karawan AKA The Nightingale’s Prayer) story, dialog and musical score by the Rahbani brothers Assi & Mansour and starring the greatest voice ever lived Fairuz.
This is the third and maybe the last film starring Fairuz after Biya el-Khawatim AKA The Ring Seller and Safar Barlek and the second collaboration between the director and the Rahbani brothers and Fairuz.Read More »
A charismatic ronin gets snared into a conflict between officials at a waystation, and gains the enmity of a group of thugs.Read More »
Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka the one-ideaed Hungarian painter was thought to be crazy by his peers, but he eventually became a significant artist.Read More »
Obsessed with a general’s woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.Read More »