In 1901, on a small ranch in Texas, Gregorio Cortez (Edward James Olmos) shoots and kills Sherrif Morris (Timothy Scott) during an altercation at Cortez’s ranch. On the run, Cortez rides for miles across the barren land, seeking refuge and shelter as he evades the growing gang of Texas Rangers that seek to bring him…
Category: Classics
The Robe
Marcellus Gallio (Richard Burton) is a Roman Tribune sent to Jerusalem by his rival, Caligula (Jay Robinson), after Marcellus drives up the bids at a slave auction. He arrives in the ancient city during Passover and the citizens are excited about the arrival of Jesus (Donald C. Klune, voiced by Cameron Mitchell). After being briefed…
Broadcast News
It is the 1980’s. Things are moving fast in America and faster still in the American newsrooms. Jane Craig (Holly Hunter) is a mile-a-minute producer who is determined to make the news important, no matter how small the story. A frequent collaborator and brilliant writer of hers at the network is Aaron Altman (Albert Brooks), but their relationship…
Walkabout
After being abandoned by their father (John Meillon), two siblings (Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg) are left to survive on their own in the Australian wilderness. With their few resources quickly depleted and death imminent, their paths cross with a young Aboriginal boy (David Gulpilil) on his titular Walkabout, a ritual journey for the boys of…
Fanny and Alexander
In 1982, Ingmar Bergman released a sprawling reflection on his life, Fanny and Alexander. Intended to be his swan song, the five-part, 320-minute film examines the European cinema master through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander (Bertil Guve) as he experiences the triumphs and tragedies of growing up while also informing students of the director’s works about what helped to shape the…
The Emigrants / The New Land
In an effort to make a better life for his family, Karl Oskar (Max von Sydow) has grand dreams of moving from Småland in Sweden to North America to create a large, bountiful, and profitable farm. His wife, Kristina (Liv Ullmann) is a little more hesitant to leave their family land, but ever faithful in both God and her…
The Bounty
After losing the HMS Bounty, Commanding Lieutenant William Bligh (Anthony Hopkins) recounts the events of the voyage to the tribunal in an effort to prove his own innocence and regain his standing in the Royal Navy. Based on true events, The Bounty is the third Hollywood retelling of Bligh’s fateful trip to Tahiti where, upon return, first mate Fletcher Christian…
Onibaba
In a grassy marsh in war-torn Japan, an old woman (Nobuko Otowa) and her daughter-in-law (Jitsuko Yoshimura) make their living by luring and killing lost samurai and selling their weapons and armor for food. When their neighbor, Hachi (Kei Satō), returns home from the war, he tells the women that Kishi, the older woman’s son…
Moby Dick
In search of income and a little adventure, Ishmael (Richard Basehart) finds himself in New Bedford, a small whaling town on the Massachusetts coast. Shortly after arriving, he makes his peace with God at the whaler’s church – presided over by Father Mapple (Orson Welles) – before signing on to the Pequod, with the mysterious Captain Ahab (Gregory Peck) leading the…
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