Author Archive: Retro

German adventure film based on Karl May’s novel.

Satyajit Ray double feature: one about a timid man, the other about a fake holy man.

British thriller about a psychopathic killer.

Historical drama about a young widow caught in espionage.

British thriller about a singer accused of murder.

Comedy about a professor who inherits a pub.

Comedy about a schoolgirl infatuated with her art teacher.

Inspired by an actual event during WWII, Josef von Sternberg’s Anatahan, tells the story of a dozen Japanese sailors who are stranded on the remote island of Anatahan during the waning days of the war. The war ends, unbeknownst to the men, but it is then that they engage in their own private war: for dominance of their island domain and possession of the sole woman in their midst, Keiko, the so-called “Queen Bee” of Anatahan (Akemi Negishi).

Formaldehyde-sniffing prisoners are shot during a prison break, but come back to life as flesh-eating zombies to seek revenge on the guards who caused their death. Dir. John Hayes