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September 24th, 2014: The Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei)
Sibei (Hiroyuki Sanada), is a widower raising two young daughters and caring for his senile mother, while working as a clerk in a castle storehouse. Sibei, who is of the Samurai class despite his...
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October 9th, 2014: Zoku Zatôichi Monogatari aka The Tale of Zatoichi...
Zatoichi (Shintaro Katsu), the blind masseuse who is also a gambler and expert swordsman, returns one year after the events of The Tale of Zatoichi to pay his respects at the grave of Hirate, the...
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October 12, 2014: Mostly Martha a.k.a. Bella Martha (2001)
Here at the League of Dead Films, we like BEER! In fact, I’m willing to bet that if we changed things up and started reviewing a different beer every day, we would have just as much insight and wisdom...
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October 21st, 2014: Chihwaseon a.k.a. Painted Fire (2002)
Cast and Crew: Im Kwon-taek (Director); Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ho-jeong, Son Ye-jin, Ahn Sung-ki What It’s About: Based on the true story of a groundbreaking 19th-century Korean painter. Jang Seung-up, who...
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December 3rd, 2014: Breathless (1960)
A small time hood (Jean-Paul Belmondo) tries to convince his American former girlfriend (Jean Serberg) to go on the lam with him after a car theft gone bad.
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December 4th, 2014: Aelita aka Aelita: Queen of Mars
After receiving radio signals from the Aelita, the Queen of Mars (Yuliya Solntseva), engineer Los (Nikolai Tseretli) builds a spaceship and journeys to Mars, where he finds an oppressive monarchy...
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December 11th, 2014: Ieri, Oggi, Domani aka Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
Three very different stories of three very different couples in 1960s Italy. In each case the couples are played by Macello Mastrioanni and Sophia Loren.
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December 26th, 2014: Diva (1981)
Cast and Crew: Jean-Jacques Beineix (Director); Irene Silberman (Producer); Frederic Andrei, Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, Richard Bohringer, Thuy An Luu What It’s About: Diva is a purely aesthetic...
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December 29th, 2014: Solaris (1972)
Psychologist Kris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis) is sent to a space station orbiting the mysterious planet Solaris. There he discovers one of the Cosmonauts dead, and the others deeply disturbed by their...
View ArticleThe Professor’s Fall Journal: October Week 2
So one victim of my usual deadly combo of Fall being my busiest season professionally and personally was my apparent belief I should put this in weeks to break it up-and not thinking about the actual...
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