Nepal has submitted “Jhola” directed by Yadav Kumar Battarai as its contender for the foreign-language Academy Award category. The film is rooted in the no longer adhered to Hindu tradition in which a woman would have to kill herself through self-immolation upon her husband’s death. It features a beautiful woman whose husband is 40 years […]

A vast improvement over John Sayles’ previous efforts, Matewan explores the personal and political dimensions of union-making and union-breaking in West Virginia’s coal mines of the 1920s

At the height of her popularity, after the romantic comedy “Pillow Talk,” Doris Day changed pace and made the domestic thriller, which became a box-office hit. In this suspenser, well directed by David Miller, Day plays Kit, an American married to wealthy London businessman Tony Preston (Rex Harrison). She becomes the terrified victim of a […]

Terry Moore is a girl with a pet gorilla named Joe, who has a growth hormone problem. Robert Armstrong discovers them in Africa and brings them back to the US as a nightclub act. Ben Johnson co-stars The movie was made by the same people of King Kong, producer Merian C. Cooper and director Ernest […]

This charming musical from Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, based on a script from the reliable team of Adolph Green and Betty Comden, casts Gene Kelly (who also choreographed) and Frank Sinatra in the same film. The plot, based on their Broadway hit, is simple enough: Three sailors on a 24-hour pass in New York, […]