Sep 30, 2020
The Lavender Hill Mob stars Alec Guinness as Henry Holland, an unambitious London bank clerk — and unlikely bank robber. When he meets the eccentric artist Alfred Pendlebury (played by famous comic/character actor Stanley Holloway), the two together hatch a plot to smuggle gold bullion out of the country in the form...
Sep 18, 2020
Vie et Passion du Christ (Life and Passion of the Christ) is one of the earliest feature-length narrative films, produced and released in 1903. The film portrays the events of the Gospels - from the Annunciation to the Ascension - employing only visual language (it is a silent film, with inter-titles used only to...
Sep 1, 2020
Krzysztof
Kieślowski's DEKALOG (1988) is a
series of 10 short films inspired by the Ten Commandments. With
this episode we discuss the second film in the series, which deals
with the second commandment "Thou shalt not take the name of the
Lord thy God in vain."
Dekalog can be difficult to find. It can be
streamed...