• Edward Dmytryk – Give Us This Day (1949)

    Edward Dmytryk1941-1950DramaFilm NoirUnited Kingdom
    Give Us This Day (1949)
    Give Us This Day (1949)

    PLOT SUMMARY :
    Italian-American laborer Geremio works as a bricklayer on dangerous construction jobs, with his friends Luigi, Julio, Giovanni and DeLucey. When his best girl Kathleen refuses to marry him because he has no ambition beyond his work, Geremio asks Luigi to send to Italy for the young Annuziata to be his bride. Annunziata’s one condition before coming is that Geremio must have a house of his own, but Geremio can’t wait and lies to her in a letter. Their meeting and wedding is a joyous success. She forgives him and they start to save for a house from his meagre salary while living in a tenement and raising children; but economic events cripple their plans, and worse, tempt him to betray his fellow workers.Read More »

  • Koji Yamamura – Kafuka: Inaka isha AKA Franz Kafka’s a Country Doctor (2007)

    Kôji Yamamura2001-2010AnimationJapanShort Film
    Kafuka Inaka isha (2007)
    Kafuka Inaka isha (2007)

    Quote:
    A hapless country doctor describes with breathless urgency a night-time summons to attend a young patient. Events soon take on a surreal aspect as “unearthly horses” transport him instantaneously to the bedside. The doctor, preoccupied with personal distractions and grievances against those he is employed to care for, fails to find what is revealed to be a vile, fatal wound. He is humiliated by the villagers, who are “always expecting the impossible from the doctor,” and doomed to an endless return trip, losing everything.Read More »

  • Gillies MacKinnon – Small Faces (1996)

    Gillies MacKinnon1991-2000CrimeDramaUnited Kingdom
    Small Faces (1996)
    Small Faces (1996)

    Quote:
    Life in the tough end of Glasgow in the late 1960s is delightfully and sometimes painfully presented here. This is clearly a work of well-observed autobiography by the Mackinnon family – Billy the writer/producer and Gillies the director.

    At the centre of the film is the Maclean family – widowed mother with sons Bobby (none too bright), Alan (budding artist in spite of being brought up in the tough end of Govan) and narrator Lex, only 13 and still not sure what life is all about. Iain Robertson’s performance as Lex is so good that it is barely credible that he has not reappeared in anything more worthy of his acting talent.Read More »

  • Ivo Caprino – Karius og Baktus (1954)

    1951-1960AnimationIvo CaprinoNorwayShort Film
    Karius og Baktus (1954)
    Karius og Baktus (1954)

    The movie, which was made at Norsk Film’s studios at Jar outside Oslo, premiered in December 1955. The collaboration with Torbjørn Egner, the author of the book on which it was based, was very productive and the film went on to be a great success, internationally too.

    During the screening at the Cannes Film Festival, the puppets on display caused quite a media sensation when they were stolen. However, next day they were returned, and the famous American comedian, Danny Kaye, added to their fame by using them in one of his shows in Cannes.Read More »

  • Tatsuya Mori – Fukudamura Jiken AKA September 1923 (2023)

    Tatsuya Mori2021-2030DramaJapanThriller
    Fukudamura Jiken (2023)
    Fukudamura Jiken (2023)

    A incident happened on 1923 on the Great Kanto earthquake
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  • Gaston Ravel – Tao (1923)

    1921-1930DramaFranceGaston RavelSilent
    Tao (1923)
    Tao (1923)

    Quote:
    Jacques Chauvry, the new government delegate for a French protectorate in Cambodia, meets the young Soun who, due to a series of circumstances, will become heir to land that houses a large oil field. Tao , an evil mestizo, along with his minions, tries to get hold of these lands, terrorizing the locals by appearing disguised as the “spirit of evil”.Read More »

  • Feng Yueh – Hua Mu Lan AKA Lady General Mulan Hua (1964)

    1961-1970ActionChinaDramaFeng Yueh
    Hua Mu Lan (1964)
    Hua Mu Lan (1964)

    Synopsis:
    A young woman joins the army in place of her sick father, and she becomes a true heroine of the Chinese people.Read More »

  • Richard Dindo – Ernesto Che Guevara, le journal de Bolivie (1994)

    1991-2000DocumentaryFranceRichard Dindo
    Ernesto Che Guevara, le journal de Bolivie (1994)
    Ernesto Che Guevara, le journal de Bolivie (1994)

    On October 9, 1967, Che Guevara was executed by the Bolivian Army, aided by the CIA. Che’s diary, a detailed, personal account of his futile, attempt to spark a revolution in Bolivia, is the basis of this intimate portrait.Read More »

  • Carl Froelich – Das Herz der Königin AKA The Queen’s Heart (1940)

    Carl Froelich1931-1940DramaGermanyThird Reich Cinema
    Das Herz der Königin (1940)
    Das Herz der Königin (1940)

    Synopsis:
    As the title “The Queen’s Heart” suggests, this early German black and white version of Mary Queen of Scott’s eventful reign and death focuses on her emotional perception rather lyrically, with some songs, mainly by her. Starting in the Tower, awaiting and receiving her sentence to the ax from the English court, where Elisabeth I chose to remain absent in person, we flash back to Mary’s arrival after a long exile at the sophisticated, splendidly hedonistic French royal court, where she was raised as a Catholic, in her people’s eyes effeminate or even depraved, elegant pleasure-accustomed lady, at utter odds with the stern Scottish protestantism of John Knox as well as England’s Anglicanism.Read More »

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