Summer of ’42

1971

Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of ’42 on an US island with their parents – rather unaffected by WWII. While Oscy’s main worries are the when and how of getting laid, Hermie honestly falls in love with the older Dorothy, who’s married to an army pilot. When her husband returns to the front, Hermie shyly approaches her. Written by Bob Dawson

Castaway

Castaway

1986

Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. The young Lucy Irving takes a chance on contacting him and after a couple of meetings they decide to go ahead. Once on the island things prove a lot less idyllic than in the movies, and gradually it becomes clear that it is Lucy who has the desire and the strength to try […]

Yes

2005
January 1, 2018

She is a scientist. He is a Lebanese doctor. They meet at a banquet and fall into a carefree, passionate relationship. But difficulties abound because of his heritage and her loveless marriage. She flies to Havana to sort things out on the beach and in the cabarets. She sends him a ticket, but harbors no illusions that He will join her in this Caribbean melting pot.

Two-Gun Caballero

1931

A cowhand named Bob Blake visits with Sally Thompson and her kid-brother, Jimmy, on their hard-scrabble homestead adjoining the Steele Ranch where Bob works. He learns that their father just died, and he plans on seeing if he can make things a bit easier for them. Blake rides to the Steele ranch to talk to his boss, who isn’t there at the moment, but Mrs. Steele is, and Mrs. Steele, standing real close, tells Bob […]

Lover in Law (aka Aniyome wa Ijippari)

2008

Tsutomu’s parents passed away several years ago, before that they ran a flower shop. Now it’s run by his older brother’s wife, Mai and he is living with them. Tsutomu’s brother now works somewhere else, so Mai is left alone and her only support is Tsutomu, who helps her run the flower shop. Because Tsutomu’s brother is busy and hasn’t been home for a while, Mai feels very lonely which Tsutomu notices and he decides […]

Clair Obscur

Clair Obscur ( aka Tereddüt)

2016
December 14, 2017

Turkish writer-director Yesim Ustaoglu offers a parallel study of two women — a psychiatrist with a long-time live-in partner and a wife in a conservative, nearly tyrannical household — in this study of the possibilities and limitations that exist for women in Turkey today.