#790 – Frankenstein, 1931, James Whale
Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.
#791: Incendies
#791 – Incendies, 2010, Denis Villeneuve
A mother’s last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad’s acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults’ voyage to the core of deep-rooted hatred, never-ending wars and enduring love.
#792: Memories of Matsuko
#792 – Memories of Matsuko, (嫌われ松子の一生), 2006, Tetsuya Nakashima
While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko’s life into a despairing tragedy.
#793: Cyrano de Bergerac
#793 – Cyrano de Bergerac, 1990, Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Embarrassed by his large nose, a romantic poet/soldier romances his cousin by proxy.
#794: The Avengers
#794 – The Avengers, 2012, Joss Whedon
When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins!
#795: The Travelling Players
#795 – The Travelling Players, (Ο θίασος), 1975, Theo Angelopoulos
This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country during World War II. While the production that they put on is entitled “Golfo the Shepherdess,” the thespians end up echoing scenes from classic Greek tales in their own lives, as Elektra plots revenge on her mother for the death of her father, and seeks help from her brother, Orestes, a young anti-fascist rebel.
#796: House
#796 – House, (ハウス), 1977, Nobuhiko Ōbayashi
Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip to the country to visit her aunt at their ancestral house. She invites her six friends, Prof, Melody, Mac, Fantasy, Kung Fu, and Sweet, to join her. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.
#797: My Fair Lady
#797 – My Fair Lady, 1964, George Cukor
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
#798: Being There
#798 – Being There, 1979, Hal Ashby
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
#799: The Man in the White Suit
#799 – The Man in the White Suit, 1951, Alexander Mackendrick
The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material, but may cause a crisis in the process. After all, once someone buys one of his suits they won’t ever have to fix them or buy another one, and the clothing industry will collapse overnight. Nevertheless, Sidney is determined to put his invention on the market, forcing the clothing factory bigwigs to resort to more desperate measures…
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