Throughout my years of watching movies, the late Sydney Pollack (1934-2008) was a filmmaker whose work I followed and came to really admire. Admittedly I have certain films of his that I like more than others (mostly due to their genres) but there’s no question he brought an integrity and […]
romance
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The emotions run high in this follow up to Zurlini’s war torn love story Violent Summer. The beautiful Claudia Cardinale (Once Upon A Time In The West) stars as Aida, a lonely, desperate prostitute who drifts from one uncaring lover to the next. After being ditched flat by her latest […]
Tony (Richard Panebianco) is a good hearted kid from Little Italy who attends a dance club one night. He seems to move through the bustling crowd magnetized by something we can’t see. He soon encounters a pretty young Chinese girl named Tye (Sari Chang) and they begin dancing as if […]
Marlene Dietrich stars as a super-sexy traveling cabaret singer named “Bijou Blanche” in this 1940 romantic-adventure classic. At the opening of the film, we see the after effects of Bijou’s steamy, stimulating performance at a bar in Shanghai, a huge brawl erupts and Bijou has to take off for her […]
In the Summer of 1943 in the Italian town of Rimini, a group of teens welcome back their friend Carlo Caremoli (Jean Louis Trintignant). He meets his old friends including the beautiful brunette Rossanna (Jaqueline Sassard). The kids have a great time, eating pasta and drinking wine. Rosanna likes Carlo […]