A man, a woman, an afternoon, a city, and an unspoken, hopeful desire to find love by way of the personal ads.Read More »

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The difficulties of a young married couple, whose husband has to prepare for his examinations during the pregnancy of his wife.Read More »

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Not only the first Norwegian noir but the first Norwegian film directed by a woman, Edith Carlmar’s dark, simmering psychological drama centers on the torrid relationship that develops between a hunky young mechanic (Claus Wiese) and an older, wealthy socialite (sensational femme fatale Bjørg Riiser-Larsen), who leaves her husband to be with him. As their lusty affair turns destructive, jealousy and imbalances of class and power send them spiraling toward tragedy.Read More »

Once upon a time there was the tree – very tall, proud and strong. It was doing neither good nor harm. This tree was kept aloof from everyone and everything. Once the tree encounters the cat. His presence changes everything.Read More »

The Iranian family man Javad is kidnapped by a descendant of Dracula, whose wife has forced him to give up drinking human blood. They become friends, but things go disastrously awry when Javad tries to lessen the vampire’s cravings through the use of drugs.

Starring: Levon Haftvan, Jaleh Sameti, Siamak Ansari, Vishka Asayesh & Reza Attaran.Read More »

This key work of the late 1970s is a unique attempt to combine contemporary debates around formalism, feminism and psychoanalysis in film. Implicitly engaged in a critical dialogue with filmmakers like Yvonne Rainer and Jean-Luc Godard , as well as the theorists of ‘Screen’ magazine, Sigmund Freud’s Dora is a milestone in the evolution of structuralist film strategies into broader questions of representation. Read More »

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Here’s the trailer from Ernst Lubitsch’s long lost silent film The Patriot, which is the only film nominated for a Best Picture Oscar that is now lost. Emil Jannings, Florence Vidor, and Lewis Stone star.

The trailer is fairly tantalizing, I mean who wouldn’t want to hear Jannings’ “Agonized Roar”, and the fact that it’s a Lubitsch film makes it doubly so. But sadly this is all we have left of the film save for some crowd footage that ended up in Josef von Sternberg’s The Scarlet Empress. Here’s hoping someday this one turns up.Read More »

A reform school teacher tries to carry his class to the right path by teaching them diving.Read More »

Fernand Gravey and Jacques Duby star as a pair of slick race track touts in need of some quick cash. Targetting rural rube Jean Richard as a patsy, the two sharpsters con him into putting up his hard-earned cash on a few sure things. Within what seems like seconds, Richard becomes wealthy by using his instincts, while the “clever” Gravey and Duby come a-cropper by playing the odds. If it’s possible for a French film to be Runyonesque, then Courte Tete is that film.Read More »