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Shunichi Kajima – Shudan-sasen AKA Lifetime Insecurity (1994)
imdb: In the midst of a bad economy, Yokoyama, the vice president of Taiyo Real Estate, launches a plan to cut back on his labor force. Fifty employees are segregated into a special assignment...
View ArticleRichard Hobert – Höst i paradiset AKA Autumn In Paradise (1995)
Ragnar Persson, a 68-year-old widower, is living at his summer cottage with his son, Mikael, and his son’s pregnant girlfriend, Catti. Ragnar falls in love with his neighbour, Vendela, who runs an...
View ArticleKaneto Shindô – Dobu AKA Ditch (1954)
Postwar Tokyo. Pin (Jukichi Uno) and Toku (Taiji Tonoyama) live in the squatter area of Kappanuma, also known as “The Ditch”. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru (Nobuko Otowa), a...
View ArticleGeorge Roy Hill – The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
A biplane pilot who had missed flying in WWI takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the glory he had missed....
View ArticleGyörgy Fehér – Szenvedély AKA Passion (1998)
Quote: The Passion (original title in Hungarian: Szenvedély) is an adaptation, probably the best one (the uploader’s humble opinion) of James M. Cain’s crime novel: The Postman Always Rings Twice. You...
View ArticleAbabacar Samb-Makharam – Et la neige n’etait plus AKA And the Snow Was Gone...
After winning a scholarship to study in France, a young Senegalese man returns home and questions his experience and his future, with honesty, courage and humour. — MUBI...
View ArticleKevin Reynolds – The Beast of War (1988)
Excerpt from bandsaboutmovies: Why Columbia Pictures released The Beast in only two theaters (for a $160,000 take against $8 million), then both mothballed it — even with rave reviews from the Lost...
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