1960s

Respected Black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.Read More »

Dr. Karl Sternau supports the Mexican national president Juarez against the army of Austrian Maximilian who have occupied the country. Karl and Juarez hope to fund their fight with the recently discovered, legendary treasure of the Aztecs.Read More »

Galois is practicing shooting in preparation for a duel the very next day. His last night.

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Champ de Galois… où l’on retrouve les mouvements d’appareil “premingeriens” dont parle Douchet à propos d’Astruc – de même qu’on y retrouve, à travers le destin d’Evariste Galois, ce qu’il décrit comme “la tragédie lyrique et romantique de l’adolescent à la recherche de l’absolu” – des mouvements d’autant plus appropriés que, dans la séquence du duel, ils font du pré un espace purement géométrique, pour ne pas dire galoisien.Read More »

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A fascinating disaster adventure witch mixes science-fiction and vampirism when a flying saucer causes an airliner to crash in the desert. Squabbling among the survivors is overshadowed by Goke, the alien creature from the spaceship, as he systematically transforms them into vampires by splitting their heads open, not the more usual neck biting method…Read More »

Japanese drama.Read More »

Comedy of the complications caused by a young man passing cheques on the strength of his mother, a village grocer, being rich.Read More »

This is an unusual film by Helvio Soto who is best known for the remarkable political and historical dramas he made before and after going into exile following the 1973 coup in Chile. Made just before Raúl Ruiz’s Tres tristes tigres with some of the same crew, the film shares some elements of style but couldn’t be more different in terms of tone. It is a romantic comedy about two university students (pre-med boy and art girl) from the countryside falling in love in Valparaiso. The film displays a lot of the brilliance of subsequent films by Soto (as well as those by the film’s editor, Carlos Piaggio and its assistant director, Silvio Caiozzi) and represents a very rare attempt in Chile at the free and hip kind of romantic comedy of the late 1960s.Read More »

First part of an over four hour documentary for TV in which Rivette visited Renoir at his country place, lunched with him, and let him talk about his work, interspersed with extracts from some of his oeuvre.Read More »

Fourth installment of Shintaro Katsu’s Hoodlum Soldier hit series. Private Omiya (Shintaro Katsu) and Private First Class Arita (Takahiro Tamura) are sent to the border of the Soviet Union.Read More »