May 29, 2020
Dir: Franz Osten | Writer: W Burton based on a play by Niranjan Pal | Cast: Himansu Rai, Enakshi Rama Rau, Charu Roy, Seeta Devi | 97' | Silent |...
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May 24, 2020
Dir.: Akira Kurosawa; Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu, Mieko Miyazaki, Mansei Nomura, HisashiI Igawa, Peter, Masayuki Yui; France/Japan 1984/85, 162min.
Director/co-writer Akira Kurosawa was seventy-five when he...
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May 22, 2020
Dresden 1918, Robert Siodmak left his upper-middle class, orthodox Jewish home in this epicentre of European modern art, to join a theatre touring company. He was 18, and this was...
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May 22, 2020
Dir: Tod Robinson | Action Drama, US 116'
As hero melodramas go The Last Full Measure slips down easily and looks slick and professional with a quality cast of William Hurt, Linus...
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May 20, 2020
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival is about documentaries and dramas that celebrate courageous people and those affected by Human Rights issues in their countries - which this year include: Armenia,...
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May 16, 2020
Dir: Ewa Sendijarevic | Drama | 91'
In her impressive debut feature, Ewa Sendijarevic takes a fresh and playfully cinematic approach to this semi-autobiographical expression of ‘positive experience of loneliness' for the average...
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May 15, 2020
Dir.: James Ivory; Cast: Julie Christie, Greta Scacchi, Shashi Kapoor, Christopher Cazenove, Zakir Hussain, Charles McCaughan, Patrick Geoffrey; UK 1983, 132 min.
Heat and Dust was the twelfth (of twenty-seven) collaborations...
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May 12, 2020
Dir: Yasujiro Ozu | Cast: Shin Saburi, Michiyo Kogure, Koji Tsuruta, Chishu Ryu | Japan, Drama 116'
The Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice tells the story of a marriage...
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May 12, 2020
Dir.: James Ivory; Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Alan Bates, Maggie Smith, Anthony Higgins; UK/France 1981, 101 min.
Perched between Jane Austen in Manhattan and Heat & Dust; Quartet, based on the novel ...
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