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(cover: Daniel Clowes' illustration for criterion's The Naked Kiss blu-ray)

The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Fatal Glass of Beer
director: Clyde Bruckman actor: W.C. Fields / Rosemary Theby
other title: Øllet blev hans skæbne / It Ain't a Fit Night Out for Man or Beast
The prodigal son of a Yukon prospector comes home on a night that "ain't fit for man nor beast."
The Barber Shop (1933) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Barber Shop
director: Arthur Ripley actor: W.C. Fields / Elise Cavanna
other title: Barber med mer' / The Barber
An inept barber maintains his good-humored optimism in his small town shop despite having a hen-pecking harridan for a wife and a total lack of sartorial skill.
The Dentist (1932) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Dentist
director: Leslie Pearce actor: W.C. Fields / Marjorie Kane
other title: Le Dentiste / Tandlægen
An unconventional dentist deals with patients in slapstick fashion.
The Element of Crime (1984) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB WikiData IMDb
Forbrydelsens element
director: Lars von Trier actor: Michael Elphick / Esmond Knight
other title: L'elemento del crimine / Forbrydelsens element
Fisher, an ex-detective, decides to take one final case when a mysterious serial killer claims the lives of several young girls. Fisher, unable to find the culprit, turns to Osbourne, a writer who was once respected for his contributions to the field of criminology. Fisher begins to use Osbourne's technique, which involves empathizing with serial killers; however, as the detective becomes increasingly engrossed in this method, things take a disturbing turn.
Variety Lights (1950) [Movie] TMDB
Luci del varietà
director: Federico Fellini / Alberto Lattuada actor: Peppino De Filippo / Carla Del Poggio
other title: Luci del varietà / Lichter des Varieté
In Italy, Checco Dal Monte manages a troupe of traveling performers with plenty of heart but minimal talent. At a small town engagement, he encounters the starry-eyed, gorgeous Lily Antonelli, and hires her as a dancer on the show. Vivacious Lily quickly sells out crowds and earns the resentment of Checco's mistress, Melina Amour, but the fledgling performer has far bigger ambitions and soon sets her sights on a higher-profile role.
Hamlet (1948) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
Hamlet
director: Laurence Olivier actor: Laurence Olivier / Basil Sydney
other title: Amleto / 王子复仇记
Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.
The Harder They Come (1972) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Harder They Come
director: Perry Henzell actor: Jimmy Cliff / Janet Bartley
other title: Tout, tout de suite / Caiga quien caiga
Ivanhoe Martin arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lands a recording contract as a reggae singer. He records his first song, "The Harder They Come," but after a bitter dispute with a manipulative producer named Hilton, soon finds himself resorting to petty crime in order to pay the bills. He deals marijuana, kills some abusive cops and earns local folk hero status. Meanwhile, his record is topping the charts.
Good Morning (1959) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban
お早よう
director: Yasujirō Ozu actor: Keiji Sada / Yoshiko Kuga
other title: Buon giorno / Bom Dia
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.
Pygmalion (1939) [Movie] TMDB
Pygmalion
director: Anthony Asquith / Leslie Howard actor: Leslie Howard / Wendy Hiller
other title: Pigmalione / Der Roman eines Blumenmädchens
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
Alexander Nevsky (1938) [Movie] TMDB
Александр Невский
director: Sergei Eisenstein / Dmitriy Vasilev actor: Nikolai Cherkasov / Nikolai Okhlopkov
other title: Aleksandr Nevskij / Alexander Newski
When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formidable force. After the Teutonic soldiers take over an eastern Russian city, Alexander stages his stand at Novgorod, where a major battle is fought on the ice of frozen Lake Chudskoe. While Alexander leads his outnumbered troops, two of their number, Vasili and Gavrilo, begin a contest of bravery to win the hand of a local maiden.
Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Иван Грозный
director: Sergei Eisenstein actor: Nikolai Cherkasov / Lyudmila Tselikovskaya
other title: Ivan il Terribile / Ivan, o Terrível - Parte I
Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, which was never completed due to the producer's dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's attempts to use forbidden experimental filming techniques and excessive cost overruns. The second part was completed but not released for a decade after Eisenstein's death and a change of heart in the USSR government toward his work; the third part was only in its earliest stage of filming when shooting was stopped altogether.
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Иван Грозный. Сказ второй: Боярский заговор
director: Sergei Eisenstein actor: Nikolai Cherkasov / Serafima Birman
other title: La congiura dei boiardi / Ivan, o Terrível - Parte II
This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of the epic was stopped before the third part could be filmed, due to producer dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's introducing forbidden experimental filming techniques into the material, more evident in this part than the first part. As it was, this second part was banned from showings until after the deaths of both Eisenstein and Stalin, and a change of attitude by the subsequent heads of the Soviet government. In this part, as Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate him.
Sisters (1972) [Movie] TMDB
Sisters
director: Brian De Palma actor: Margot Kidder / Jennifer Salt
other title: Le due sorelle / Irmãs
Inquisitive journalist Grace Collier is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, fashion model Danielle Breton, violently murder a man. Panicking, she calls the police. But when the detective arrives at the scene and finds nothing amiss, Grace is forced to take matters into her own hands. Her first move is to recruit private investigator Joseph Larch, who helps her to uncover a secret about Danielle's past that has them both seeing double.
Kwaidan (1965) [Movie] TMDB Douban NeoDB WikiData IMDb
怪談
director: Masaki Kobayashi actor: Michiyo Aratama / Rentaro Mikuni
other title: Kwaidan - Storie di fantasmi / Kwaïdan
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.
The Blob (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban
The Blob
director: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. actor: Steve McQueen / Aneta Corsaut
other title: Fluido mortale / A Bolha Assassina
A drive-in favorite, this sci-fi classic follows teenagers Steve and his best girl, Jane, as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, Steve and Jane witness the blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and policeman Dave refuses to believe the kids without proof.
Fiend Without a Face (1958) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Fiend Without a Face
director: Arthur Crabtree actor: Marshall Thompson / Kynaston Reeves
other title: Ungeheuer ohne Gesicht / Monstres invisibles
An American airbase in Canada provokes resentment from the nearby residents after fallout from nuclear experiments at the base are blamed for a recent spate of disappearances. A captain from the airbase is assigned to investigate, and begins to suspect that an elderly British scientist who lives near the base and conducts research in the field of mind over matter knows more than he is letting on..
Black Narcissus (1947) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Black Narcissus
director: Emeric Pressburger / Michael Powell actor: Deborah Kerr / David Farrar
other title: Narciso nero / Quando os Sinos Dobram
A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts. Sister Ruth falls for a government worker, Mr. Dean, and begins to question her vow of celibacy. As Sister Ruth obsesses over Mr. Dean, Sister Clodagh becomes immersed in her own memories of love.
I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
I Know Where I'm Going!
director: Michael Powell / Emeric Pressburger actor: Wendy Hiller / Roger Livesey
other title: So dove vado / Ich weiß wohin ich gehe
Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and unable to continue to her destination, Joan finds herself charmed by the straightforward, no-nonsense islanders around her, and becomes increasingly attracted to naval officer Torquil MacNeil, who holds a secret that may change her life forever.
All That Heaven Allows (1955) [Movie] TMDB
All That Heaven Allows
director: Douglas Sirk actor: Jane Wyman / Rock Hudson
other title: Secondo amore / Med kærlighedens ret
Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.
Written on the Wind (1956) [Movie] TMDB
Written on the Wind
director: Douglas Sirk actor: Rock Hudson / Lauren Bacall
other title: Come le Foglie al Vento / Dårskabens timer
Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jasper, works hard to establish the family business, his irresponsible son, Kyle, is an alcoholic playboy, and his daughter, Marylee, is the town tramp. Mitch harbors a secret love for Kyle's unsatisfied wife, Lucy -- a fact that leaves him exposed when the jealous Marylee accuses him of murder.
Created date: Sept. 7, 2025