Montana, 1925. Phil Burbank (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his crew of cowboys come across a small town while on a job. Needing a place to eat and sleep for the night, they ride up to an inn run by mother and son Rose (Kirsten Dunst) and Peter Gordon (Kodi Smit-McPhee). Phil’s softer-spoken brother, George (Jesse Plemons),…
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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…
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…
La Piscine
On vacation at a villa on the French Riveria, Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) and Marianne (Romy Schneider) spend many an afternoon lazing about the sun-beaten deck and garden surrounding the luxurious swimming pool that is the centerpiece of the estate. Tensions and passions rise when Marianne invites an old flame, Harry (Maurice Ronet) to join the…
The Marquee Topic 