1981-1990

An eccentric and possibly brilliant young man, troubled by the death of his parents, claims to be readying a world-changing invention.Read More »

Désiré Ecaré’s ”Faces of Women” is a technically rough, cheerfully rude, folkloric comedy about the status of women in the Ivory Coast, where Mr. Ecaré was born and raised. It is, in fact, two separate fables with a common frame, that of a street festival where the singing and dancing is nonstop.

In the first story, a bored wife is accused by her tyrannical farmer-husband of having an affair with his younger brother, a nattily dressed layabout. The wife isn’t, but would like to. At her wit’s end, she takes karate lessons in order to best her husband physically.Read More »

Oversexed female interrogator with a penchant for sadomasochism and torture plots a scheme with her deviant troupe to extort the considerable fortune of a city embezzler.Read More »

A very weird exploitation flick. The whole film seems to centre round a group of dominating male chauvinists abusing young Japanese models after a photo shoot. After which they are butchered one by one by a mud covered nutter with a gigantic penis who lives in a warehouse.Read More »

Kongpaeng leaves his poverty-stricken agricultural village for Bangkok. Lost in the big city, he flits between menial jobs. Meanwhile his wife barely survives on the money he sends home. Change is afoot however; the villagers begin to organize themselves against the corrupted officials who are keeping them in the poverty trap. Meanwhile Koenpaeng in the big city can also feel the wind of change.Read More »

A Croatian thriller, a whodunit with elements of film noir

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Birthday party for Radovan Orlak is interrupted when his friends hear the news of his suicide. Four of them start their own investigation and decide to punish all people that could have been responsible for his death.Read More »

Engineer Zhao Shuxin has been promoted and clones a robot in his image to attend his meetings, resulting in comic situations.Read More »

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Irene, agent of an insurance company, is tasked with investigating the disappearance of an old librarian, in a provincial town. In the course of its investigation, she becomes acquainted with Ricardo, history teacher, who knew the victim and is interested in the legendary traditions of the region. Thus, Irene learns of a very ancient medieval castle – whose secret entrance opens mysteriously on Christmas night, during the twelve strokes of midnight.Read More »

Gradually picking up dramatic steam as it moves through its 2 1/2 hour running time, this gangster film is loosely based on the career of one of Naples’ most sadistic crime bosses, Raffaele Cutolo. Here, the mobster (played by Ben Gazzara) is simply called “The Professor” and is first introduced in prison where he landed after murdering a stranger who was flirting with his sister. From prison he begins to move up the Camorra ladder when he recruits inmates to join him in bringing down the leading crime boss and has his sister pay off their families in return. Without ever leaving prison “The Professor” succeeds in replacing the ruling “don” but far from resting on his laurels he starts to wipe out his enemies and anyone whose loyalty might be in question. Still hampered by his incarceration, he finally escapes and joins forces with the Cosa Nostra and even begins to put major politicians in his pocket. It seems like nothing can stop him until a lone and much-benighted police chief (Leo Gullotta) enters the picture.
Eleanor Mannikka
New York TimesRead More »