Jan 16, 2017
DAS KABINETT DES DR. CALIGARI
Director: Robert Wiene
Cast: Werner Krauß, Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover, Freidrich Feher; Germany 1919, 73 min.
Few films have been the object of so much secondary literature as...
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Jan 16, 2017
Dir: Rudiger Suchsland | Doc, Germany, 119'
German cinema of the Weimar Republic, the first democratic state on German soil, was innovative as well as contradictory – lasting from 1918 to...
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Jan 15, 2017
Directed by Rintaro, written by Katsuhiro Otomo and produced by Madhouse with conceptual support from Tezuka Productions, this science-fiction anime action is loosely based on the 1949 Metropolis manga created...
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Jan 14, 2017
Dir/Writer: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Chihiro Ikeda based on a novel by Yutaka Maekawa | Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yuko Takeuchi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Haruna Kawaguchi, Masahiro Higashide | 130min | Japan | Fantasy...
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Jan 10, 2017
Dir.: Sam Peckinpah | Cast: Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Robert Webber, Gig Young, Kris Kristofferson, Emilio Fernandez, Janine Maldonado | USA/Mexico | 112 min.
Director Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984) brought us Straw...
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Jan 8, 2017
Dir.: Michael Caton-Jones; Cast: Shirley Henderson, Letitia Wright, Isabella Laughland, Ian Hart; UK 2015, 114 min.
Director Michael Caton-Jones has returned to serious filmmaking after his disastrous Basic Instinct 2 (2006)....
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Jan 6, 2017
Dir.: Lewis Milestone | Cast: Pat O'Brien, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Brian, Edward Everett Horton | Drama | 101 min.
Lewis Milestone directed the first film version of the play by Ben...
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Jan 3, 2017
Dir.: Howard Hawks | Cast: Gary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, John Qualen, Helen Mack | USA | Drama | 92 min.
Based on the 1928 play by Ben Hecht and...
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Jan 2, 2017
Dir.: Martin Ritt; Cast: Orson Welles, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Lee Remick; USA 1958, min.
The Long, Hot Summer re-established director Martin Ritt (Norma Rae) again in Hollywood, after...
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