Friday, July 25, 2025

Chère Louise (1972)

Louise lives alone and seems to like it that way. She has been through a divorce and the recent death of her mother. Recently, she has moved to Annecy, a moderate-sized city, to take work as a schoolteacher. She encounters a much younger man, Luigi, an Italian who is down on his luck. Though he moved to France to find work, he was robbed of his money and papers and is stranded. When he helps her bury her dogs, which her neighbour has poisoned for barking, their relationship grows to a new level.

Director: Philippe de Broca.

Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Julian Negulesco, Didi Perego, Jill Larson, Lucienne Legrand, Pippo Starnazza, Luce Fabiole, Jenny Arasse, Louis Navarre, Yves Robert.

Music by: Georges Delerue.

Subltitled in English. 

Courtesy of RareFilmm.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/9739431774886

Sunday, July 20, 2025

The Red Spectacles - Jigoku no banken: akai megane - (1987)

As the world decayed into chaos, the Metropolitan Police had no choice but to fight back, creating an elite unit of police. They became known as Kerberos, the Watchdogs of Hell. Over time, though, the zeal of the police force was transformed into cruelty and corruption. Three of the elite rebelled against the system. But only one, senior detective Koichi Todome, escaped to freedom. Several years later, he returns home. But why? What is left for him in this city that continues to decay? Koichi must now determine who is friend and who is foe as he attempts to unravel what happened after he left.

Director: Mamoru Oshii. 

Writers: Mamoru Oshii (original story), Kazunori Itô & Mamoru Oshii (screenplay).

Stars: Shigeru Chiba, Machiko Washio, Hideyuki Tanaka, Tesshô Genda, Mako Hyôdô, Ichirô Nagai, Yasuo Ôtsuka, Hirô Oikawa, Takashi Kanematsu, Toshio Furukawa, Tomohiro Nishimura, Hidetoshi Nakamura, Takahiro Hirai, Fumihiko Tachiki, Takeyuki Funato, Daiki Nakamura, Zenchû Mitsui, Mitsuhiro Uwabe, Naoyuki Yoshinaga, Fuyuki Shinada, Kazuo Tauchi, Norio Kurisaki, Fumi Hirano, Takayoshi Ito, Kintarô Sakata, Hideyo Amamoto

Subtitles: English

LINK:  https://ok.ru/video/9812979288742

Sunday, July 6, 2025

The Flight of the Eagle - Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd - (1982)

The Swedish 19th century engineer S. A. Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, “The Eagle”, takes off from Svalbard in 1897, but the three men are not heard of again.

Director: Jan Troell. 

Writers: Klaus Rifbjerg, Ian Rakoff, Jan Troell & Georg Oddner (screenplay), Per Olof Sundman (freely adapted from the novel by).

Stars: Max von Sydow, Göran Stangertz, Sverre Anker, Clément Harari, Eva von Hanno, Lotta Larsson, Jan-Olof Strandberg, Henric Holmberg, Ulla Sjöblom, Mimi Pollak, Cornelis Vreeswijk, Ingvar Kjellson, Bruno Sörwing. 

Subtitles in English. Courtesy of RareFilm.

Link fot the movie: https://ok.ru/video/2566689000102

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Nouvelle Vague (Jean-Luc Goddard , 1990)

Composed entirely by literary quotations from many different sources and from several historical periods, Godard’s film works as an allegory on film. The loose narrative tells about a drifter found by a rich woman who soon falls in love with him. A drowning accident takes place and the drifter dies but some time later, he reappears in the woman’s life looking for a job. Or could it be the man’s twin brother?

Director: Jean-Luc Godard.

Writers: Jacques Audiberti (novel), Jean-Luc Godard (scenario) (uncredited).

Stars: Alain Delon, Domiziana Giordano, Jacques Dacqmine, Christophe Odent, Roland Amstutz, Cécile Reigher, Laurence Côte, Joseph Lisbona, Véronique Müller, Joe Sheridan.

Subtitled in English.

Movie Link: https://ok.ru/video/2610668440230

The Eccentrics - Sherekilebi - (1974)

Two eccentrics who have ended up in jail due to their inability to conform build a fantastical flying machine to flee their grey reality. At...