Erik Balling directed Qivitoq (English: The Mountain Hiker), a Danish romantic drama, starring Poul Reichhardt and Astrid Villaume.

Henri Verneuil directed Forbidden Fruit (French: Le Fruit défendu), a romantic melodrama, starring Fernandel and Françoise Arnoul.

Legendary French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier directed A Sunday in the Country (French: Un dimanche à la campagne), a lyrical feature set during one typical Sunday in the late summer of 1912.

Courtesy of Sundance Acclaimed filmmaker Hubert Sauper’s latest Cuban docu, Epicentro, won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for documentary at the 2020 Sundance Film Fest. Sauper’s previous works, Darwin’s Nightmare, We Come as Friends, were serious features on capitalism and post-colonialism. The poor Cuban subjects in this docu come across as resourceful survivors, still proud […]

One of Robert Aldrich’s most popular westerns, Vera Cruz benefits from the appearances of two major stars of different generation, Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, and a serviceable story by Borden Chase. Veracruz The tale amoral characters and cynical attitude toward violence (a scene where Lancaster’s character threatens to murder child hostages) were considered shocking […]