czwartek, 4 sierpnia 2011
Léon Morin, Priest / Léon Morin, prêtre (1961)
In World War II, the widow Barny sees the Italian soldiers arriving in occupied Saint Bernard while walking to her job. Barny lives with her daughter and works correcting tests and feels a great attraction toward her boss Sabine. When the Germans arrive, Barny sends her half-Jewish daughter to live in a farm in the countryside and finds that Sabine's brother has been arrested and sent to a concentration camp. The atheist Barny decides to baptize her daughter to protect her and chooses
The Great Eliah / O Grande Elias (1950)
A comedy about a family that receives money from a Brazilian aunt. One day she unexpectedly arrives in Portugal to visit them, and they must make her think they are rich. António Silva became one of my favorite actors, and I wish his legacy goes on throughout the years.
It's a shame nowadays these kind of movies are not given their real importance. We're talking about comedy, real good ones that cannot be repeated.
Everything in this movie is just brilliant, from the acting to the
It's a shame nowadays these kind of movies are not given their real importance. We're talking about comedy, real good ones that cannot be repeated.
Everything in this movie is just brilliant, from the acting to the
Old English (1930)
Sylvanus Heythorp past 80 and known about Liverpool as "Old English," is unable to pay his debts although he is the director of numerous companies and chairman of a shipbuilding firm. He tries to persuade his creditors to accept an allotment from his salary and not to force him into disgrace--all but Charles Ventnor agree. Rosamund Larne, widow of Heythorp's illegitimate son, and her two children, Phyllis and Jock, arrive requesting funds above her regular allowance; Heythorp refuses but
Hands off me! / Fermo con le mani! (1937)
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Toto is a poor devil who tries in every way to survive. One day, is able to free a poor orphan from the clutches of a sinister pimp who forced her to beg on the street, then housing them in his house.
To make some money Toto agrees to act as a factotum in a beauty salon and, because of good tips, disguised as a woman masquerading as masseuse. While massaging her first client, the singer Eve, betrays itself. He was caught by his friend of Eva.
The woman accusing his friend
Toto is a poor devil who tries in every way to survive. One day, is able to free a poor orphan from the clutches of a sinister pimp who forced her to beg on the street, then housing them in his house.
To make some money Toto agrees to act as a factotum in a beauty salon and, because of good tips, disguised as a woman masquerading as masseuse. While massaging her first client, the singer Eve, betrays itself. He was caught by his friend of Eva.
The woman accusing his friend
Save The Tiger (1973)
Harry Stoner (Jack Lemmon, in an Oscar-winning role) has his back to the wall – the president of Capri Casuals, a struggling fashion house, he's facing an audit, burned out on a life fraught with extravagant trappings (a daughter in a Swiss boarding school, maids, lavish house) and yearning for simpler times, when he was a youth enamored of baseball. In director John G. Avildsen's quietly desperate Save The Tiger, 36 hours in Harry's life unfold like a surreal, blue-collar nightmare –
Exclusive (1937)
When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government Committee who put him behind bars. Members of the committee include Colonel Bogardus, owner of the World , Horace Mitchell, a candidate for mayor, and Mr. Franklin, a department store owner. First Gillette buys a rival newspaper, the Sentinel , and offers a pricey editorship to World newsman Ralph Houston, who refuses the offer on principle.
czwartek, 14 lipca 2011
Under Capricorn (1949) [Special Edition] PAL DVD9
Comes now another title from the middle of Alfred Hitchcock’s filmography that tends to provoke blank stares. Let’s find out why, shall we?
The costume drama begins with Michael Wilding as a young wastrel arriving in Australia. (Oh, under Capricorn. Now I get it.) He’s instantly befriended by the unfortunately named Samson Flusky (Joseph Cotten), ex-convict turned wealthy landowner, who offers to set Wilding up in a shady deal that will make his fortune. Things turn promisingly lurid
The costume drama begins with Michael Wilding as a young wastrel arriving in Australia. (Oh, under Capricorn. Now I get it.) He’s instantly befriended by the unfortunately named Samson Flusky (Joseph Cotten), ex-convict turned wealthy landowner, who offers to set Wilding up in a shady deal that will make his fortune. Things turn promisingly lurid
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