Author Archive: Retro

A stage hand is knocked out and has a dream of becoming monarch of a Graustarkian kingdom, rife with court intrigue, an assassination plot and operetta-style musical numbers.

Several people are involved in a bus crash, and we turn back time to see how they came to be there. Dir. Jean Renoir.

Dir. Roman Polanski.A small and frail barefoot slave, portrayed by Polanski, plays the flute and beats the drum to entertain his master who endlessly sits on his rocking chair in his mansion. The slave jumps and leaps wildly, wipes his master’s brow, feeds him, washes his feet, shades him from the sun and holds a urinal for him.

British crime drama about insurance fraud.

Historical epic about Genghis Khan’s invasion of Europe.

An elderly woman is murdered by a thief, with the only witness a blind girl whom the killer returns to silence permanently.

British thriller about an army deserter accused of murder.

British thriller about a murder investigation.