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‘After an unsuccessful robbery, Eric Lambrecht is arrested and sent to prison for twenty years. The head warden Isnar offers to allow Eric to escape if he is willing to undertake a small task for him. He must break into the safe in the director’s office, a safe that is thought to contain a huge sum of money…’
– James TraversRead More »
Polish Silesia, the 1930’s. A coal mine is slated for shutdown. Scared of losing their jobs, the miners declare a sit-in. Young miner Jaś, a happy husband and father of two little boys, wants to go home, but overcomes his fear and stays with his fellow miners. The mine’s management tries to cheat the striking miners, promising to negotiate with the worker leaders if the workers leave the mine. The families demonstrate their solidarity outside. The man leading them is Erwin, a former Silesian insurrectionist. Silesian bands play at the mine gates, demonstrations are held. Siersza, leader of the strike, sends strike committee member Grudniok to Warsaw, to present the miners’ demands to the government. Grudniok returns with bad news. They told him in Warsaw that the mine was owned by a German, and the Polish government had no way of influencing his decision…Read More »
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In a Japanese women’s prison, the female prisoner Matsu, nicknamed Scorpion, is treated with extraordinary cruelty and sadism by the warden Goba. While being transferred, she is able to affect an escape along with six other women. Leading them across the wastelands, all the while pursued by Goba, they take their revenge on the men who seek to abuse them.Read More »
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Anna is a teacher and her husband Marek is an engineer. They both face moral dilemmas at work: Marek’s boss wants him to help get rid of a renowned engineer from their company; Anna refuses to support the false accusation of her student.Read More »
A frontier feud breaks out on the border of Mexico when Gangster Hagan’s brothers are wiped out whilst conducting a raid on the Nevada Kid’s family. Hagen (Kinski) orders his henchmen to destroy the Hamiltons, but doesn’t reckon with the ‘Kid’ (Cameron), who on returning from war teams up with a bounty hunter to hunt down the bandit gang.Read More »
Hitler A Career is Joachim Fest’s (who had written the definitive history of Hitler and movie based on his book) controversial German documentary film about the inevitability of Hitler and Fascism within Germany.
Narrated by Stephen Murray, it tells the story of Hitler’s rise to power from a German perspective; and Hitler’s uncanny ability to satisfy the German people’s emotional and psychological needs.
But how did this unknown Austrian boy seduce the German people into becoming a Nazi state?
Why did Germany follow Hitler to the brink of destruction?Read More »
Morris Buttermaker, an irascible, alcoholic, ex-ballplayer is roped into coaching the worst group of kids ever assembled onto one team. Their cause is utterly and hysterically hopeless until he convinces the daughter of his ex-girlfriend to be the team’s pitcher.Read More »
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This film about the Deer Garden, a forest park north of Copenhagen, was an assignment to celebrate the Deer Garden’s 300th anniversary. Leth and the painter Per Kirkeby above all wanted to do an attractive film about life in the forest orchestrated around the four seasons. The photography is heavily inspired by the Danish Golden Age painters’ view of nature. Kirkeby, Leth and DP Henning Camre worked on and off for a full year to find the ideal light and the optimum framing, seeking out the truly beautiful. As Leth puts it, “there was complete…golden-section control of the whole film. “The narrative holds tiny traces of romantic-poetry notions of mystical and mythical forest life: a nude woman appears among the tree trunks and vanishes again like a fairy girl on a summer night. Read More »
When intruders interfere in the robbery of Le Mataf (Michel Constantin) and his gang and a girl is murdered, they are set up for blackmail by an underworld figure who wants them to do a job for him…Read More »