The Killers (1946)
Synopsis: Ernest Hemingway’s gripping short story The Killers has fascinated readers and filmmakers for generations. Its first screen incarnation came in 1946, when director Robert Siodmak unleashed The Killers, helping […]
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Children of the Damned
Synopsis: It’s “yesterday Midwich, tomorrow the world” in the sequel Children of the Damned. Unusually gifted youngsters who may be a leap forward in human evolution are brought from around […]
Village of the Damned (1960)
Synopsis: So Young, So Innocent, So Deadly. We have met the enemies and they are our children. Well, perhaps not our children, and that’s the problem: they are the offspring […]
The Night of the Hunter
Synopsis: The Night Of The Hunter – incredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed – is truly a standalone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of […]
Hak se wui yi wo wai kwai
Synopsis: Wo Shing is Hong Kong’s oldest Triad Society. Under the leadership of its current Chairman Lok, it has grown to become the most feared crime organization in the city. […]
Hak se wui
Synopsis: Every two years the senior members of the Wo Shing, Hong Kong’s oldest Triad Society, elect an up-and-coming younger boss as their chairman. The two candidates vying for the […]
Repo! The Genetic Opera
Synopsis: In the not-so-distant future, a worldwide epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet. Out of the tragedy, a savior emerges: Geneco, a biotech company that offers organ transplants….for a […]
Suck
Synopsis: After their bass player becomes a vampire, down and out rock band, The Winners are launched into spotlight. Stalked by creepy producers, wild groupies and the legendary vampire hunter […]
F For Fake
Synopsis: Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In Orson Welles’ free-form documentary F for Fake, the legendary filmmaker (and self-described charlatan) gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career-the tenuous line between truth […]
Working With Orson Welles
Synopsis: After nearly 30 years of self-imposed commercial/artistic exile in Europe, Orson Welles returned to Hollywood to undertake the ultimately unfinished The Other Side Of The Wind, the fascinating story […]
Orson Welles : The One-Man Band
Synopsis: An 88-minute documentary about Welles’s unfinished projects. ************************************************************************* Orson Welles : The One-Man Band 7.5 A visual essay on Welles final years and the unfinished projects that will […]
Mr. Arkadin (The Comprehensive Version)
Synopsis: Orson Welles’s Mr. Arkadin (a.k.a. Confidential Report) tells the story of an elusive billionaire who hires an American smuggler to investigate his past, leading to a dizzying descent into […]
The Third Man
Synopsis: Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime, and thus begins this […]
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