In the ruins of the village of Marialva, an old lady guards the entrance of what is now a cemetery, telling and retelling the history of the curse of Marialva that started a thousand years ago, when the place was a crowded village. The story starts in the day three men were sentenced to death and their wife and daughter, sentenced to be marked by fire.Read More »
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Pedro Armendariz plays Igricheff, an undisciplined soldier who opts for the life of a mercenary. Operating out of the North African desert, Igricheff offers his services to a French arms smuggler (Paul Meurisse). Betrayed by his “partner,” Igricheff is left to face his fate alone, which he does with a philosophical shrug. A dash of feminine interest is provided by Anna-Marie Sandri as a native lovely whom Igricheff purchases during his journey across the desert.Read More »
Hocus Pocus shows an attempt to persuade a young illusionist to join the party. In the film, these attempts are compared to the tricks of an illusionist who repels the party’s attacks with its own weapon – slogan propaganda.Read More »
An early Dostoevsky adaption by Carl Froelich and an uncredited Dimitri Buchowetzki. According to Julian Connolly’s book Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov (Bloomsbury, 2013), this is the film adaption of that novel. For those that haven’t read it, here’s something from Encyclopedia Britannica: ‘The Brothers Karamazov, the final novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, first published as Bratya Karamazovy in 1879–80 and generally considered to be his masterpiece. It is the story of Fyodor Karamazov and his sons Alyosha, Dmitry, and Ivan.Read More »
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Drawn to a pair of lights in the barren American desert sky, a mysterious German woman, Jasmin, stumbles upon a dilapidated motel/diner in the middle of nowhere. Her unusual appearance and demeanor are at first suspicious to Brenda, the exasperated owner who has difficulty making ends meet. But when an unlikely magic sparks between the two women, this lonely desert outpost is transformed into a thriving — and popular — oasis.
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The auction of things found in Warsaw buses and trams is a pretext for the director to show a gallery of faces of Warsaw smarties and other respected representatives of the consumer society. The film proves that the Christmas “run for carp”, in various forms, is a traditional national sport of Poles.
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This film is one of many collaborations between Kawada Yoshiko, who grew up as a stage actress under the tutelage of “Japan’s first actress,” Kawakami Sadayakko, and became Shochiku Kinema’s first actress when she appeared in the company’s first film, “Island Woman” (1920), and Moroguchi Juku, whose good looks earned him the nickname of a leading kabuki actor of the time, and depicts the turbulent love story between a young man whose love has been broken and a farm girl in Hokkaido. This is a rare surviving film that conveys the atmosphere of early contemporary dramas produced by Shochiku Kamata before the Great Kanto Earthquake.Read More »
A dodo, a bird that disappeared 300 years ago, makes its appearance in Athens in the luxurious residence of a family on the verge of ruin for which the countdown has begun: the 38 crucial and saving hours that separate them from the marriage of their daughter with a rich heir. The boundaries between reason and madness will be tested and the situation will soon be out of control.Read More »
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“Daughter Rite is a classic, the missing link between the ‘direct Cinema’ documentaries and the later hybrids that acknowledged truth couldn’t always be found in front of a camera lens. Scandalous in its day for bending the rules of representation to enlighten its audience about filmmaking, DAUGHTER RITE has a lot to teach folks hooked on reality TV, too. Citron’s documentary inquiries into feminism, women in the trades, and feminist approaches to media representation are time capsules that merit re-opening.”
-B. Ruby Rich, author of ” Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement”Read More »