Directed by: Robert Bresson Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A teenaged girl named Mouchette (Nadine Nortier) suffers indignity at the hands of her family and neighbors. Kitty Cameo: Near the end of the movie, Mouchette is called into the home of an elderly, death-obsessed rich […]
Original Title: Gycklarnas afton Directed by: Ingmar Bergman Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Albert Johansson (Åke Grönberg) is tired of circus life and tries to reconcile with his successful wife much to the dismay of his lover and fellow circus performer Anne (Harriet Andersson). Cat […]
Directed by: T.R. Thumwood Synopsis: A promotional film for the Austin engine shows them being installed in a yacht which then takes a pleasure cruise along the Cornish coast. Reality Cats: While touring Mevagissey, two longhair black cats are sitting on the narrow street where the women are walking. Purr Blurs: Earlier in Polperro a […]
Directed by: Alan Madden Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Flo (Julia Blake) and Minnie (Lynette Curran) are elderly women who advertise for a border and end up with a deceased criminal and a policeman on his tail. They then resort to unique means to dispose […]
Original Title: Cobra Nero Directed by: Stelvio Massi Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: In this Italian action film, Detective Robert Malone (aka Black Cobra) (Fred Williamson) takes on a biker gang in order to protect photographer witness Elys Trumbo (Eva Grimaldi). Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): […]
Original Title: Yajû no seishun Directed by: Seijun Suzuki Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Jôji ‘Jo’ Mizuno (Jô Shishido) looks for the truth behind a friend’s suspicious suicide and ends up pitting two Yakuza gangs against each other. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): Jo is invited […]
Starring: Sifty Directed by: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A hilarious mockumentary about a group of vampires living together in a flat in Wellington, New Zealand. Purr Blur: One of the vampires, Vladislav (Jemaine Clement), has the ability to shape-shift into […]
Original Air Date: May 29, 1960 Directed by: David MacDonald Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Inspector Duval (Charles Korvin) lands in a South American country to arrest a wanted criminal only to find himself in the midst of a civil war. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): When […]
Original Title: Teen Kanya Directed by: Satyajit Ray Synopsis: A collection of three short movies about defining moments in the lives of young girls. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): The third film is titled Samapti and tells the story of college student Amulya (Soumitra Chatterjee) who comes home after passing his classes and is pestered by […]
Original Title: Skazka O Glupom Myshonke Directed by: Mikhail Tsekhanovsky Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: This animated operetta, based on the poem by S. Marshak with music by Dmitri Shostakovich, finds a mouse child who cannot fall asleep to his mother’s, or any other animal […]