Classic
75 Years of Casablanca Legacy
Sunday, 26th November marked the 75th anniversary of the premier of the classic film Casablanca. Many consider the film to be a timeless story of love, loss and redemption.
Classic Film Review / Breakfast at Tiffany's
Loosely based on Truman Capote's novella, Breakfast at Tiffany's is the story of a young, paid “party girl” living in New York who meets a young struggling writer when he moves in to her apartment building.
Classic Film / Casablanca (1942)
Rick owns a club in Casablanca. One day he discovers that the person he used to love, Ilsa, is in town with her husband Victor. Victor is a Czech resistance leader, chased by the Germans.
Classic Film / The Shining (1980)
Jack is a struggling alcoholic. He is a writer and a teacher. He goes to an isolated hotel as a caretaker in the heart of winter. The hotel has a dark past and contains dark spirits. The spirits start to possess Jack and he slowly turns insane. Alongside, his son Danny develops a psychic ability called the Shining that allows him to see spirits.
Classic Movie / Singin' In the Rain (1952)
In 1927, Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Lina Lamot (Jean Hagen) were one of the most popular onscreen duos. After the enormous success of the first talking picture The Jazz Singer, R.F.
Classic Movie Review / THE GIRL NEXT DOOR
An eighteen year-old high school nerd, over-achiever and highly ambitious Matthew plans to study in Georgetown University, but suddenly falls for his new neighbor, a nineteen year-old spontaneous blonde named Danielle.
Classic Film Review / Baksa Badal (1970)
Suitcases of Amita and psychiatrist Dr. Pratulya get exchanged when they are travelling from Calcutta to Siliguri.
12 Angry Men (1957)
Plot: “12 Angry Men” revolves around the jury's pondering in a capital murder case. An 18 year old boy from a local slum was arrested
Wild at Heart (1990)
Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.
When Father Was Away on Business
In a post-World War II Yugoslavia still under Stalinist rule in the 1950s, 6-year-old Malik is oblivious as to why his father, Mehmed, has suddenly disappeared.
The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
In a poor 19th century rural Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a nearby mountain to die. An old woman is getting close to the cut-off age, and we follow her last days with her family.
Yol (1982)
A harsh portrait of Turkey, its people and its authorities, shown through the stories of five prisoners given a week's home leave, and the problems they encounter in adjusting to the world outside.
Missing (1982)
When an idealistic writer disappears during the Right Wing military coup in 1973 Chile, his wife and American businessman father try to find him.
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
The life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century.
The Given Word (1962)
A simple yet devout Christian makes a vow to Saint Barbara after she saves his donkey, but everyone he meets seems determined to misunderstand his intentions.
Viridiana
Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.
The Long Absence (1961)
A café owner tries to bring back the memory of a lost tramp, who she believes is her husband missing from WWII.
La Dolce Vita (1960)
A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering paparazzo journalist living in Rome.
