Robert Parrish

Bir grup acemi genç Alman askerinin, 1.Dünya Savaşı sırasında büyük bir idealizmle başlayan hikayelerinin, hayal kırıklığıyla sonuçlanmasını anlatıyor. Başrol oyuncusu Lew Ayres’in canlandırdığı Paul Baumer’in repliği, filmin konusunu da özetliyor: “Siperlerde yaşıyor ve savaşıyoruz. Ölmemeye çalışıyoruz, tek yaptığımız bu” Modası çabuk geçen pek çok mesaj filmlerinin aksine, Erich maria Remarque’nin savaş karşıtı romanından uyarlanan filmin etkisi yıllar sonra bile hiç azalmamıştır. Lewis Milestone’nun ölçülü, sade ve insanı derinden etkileyen çalışması, yıllar sonra bile pek çok ülkede yasaklıydı.

Şehir Işıkları, görme engelli genç bir kızla evsiz bir gencin hikayesini anlatıyor. Kör bir çiçekçiye aşık olan ve sokaklarda yaşayan iyi niyetli bir serseri, kıza kendisini varlıklı biri olarak tanıtır. Bir milyonerin hayatını kurtarmıştır ve onun kendisine yardım edeceğine güvenmektedir. Adamı ziyaret edip sevdiği kızın gözlerini ameliyat ettirebilecek kadar para ödünç alabileceğini düşünür. Ama zengin insanlar aslında ikiyüzlü bir yaşam sürmektedirler. Mesaj sessiz, fakat evrenseldir: aşkın gözü kördür...

Taşrada tatil yapan kentli bir kadın, oralı genç ve evli bir çiftçiyle ilişki yaşar ve adamı karısını öldürüp onunla birlikte büyük şehre taşınmaya ikna eder. Adam, karısıyla beraber şehre giderken binecekleri teknede bir ‘kaza’ planlar, kendini boğulmaktan kurtarmak için de tekneye bir demet saz saklar. Ancak planın sonunu getirmeyi yüreği kaldırmaz ve kürek çekerek karısını kıyıya çıkarır. Büyük bir keder içinde, tramvaya binip şehre giderler. Göz yaşlarıyla dolu barışmaları, düğün yapılan bir kilisede tamamlanır. Birbirlerine yeniden âşık olmuş bir halde, önce bir fotoğrafçıya, sonra da bir berbere uğrarlar. Adam berberdeki manikürcünün ona kur yapmasını görmezden gelir, karısını da çapkın bir hayranın ilgisinden korur. Devasa bir lunaparka gidip eğlendikten sonra, tekneyle eve dönerler. Ancak bir fırtına çıkar ve yelken yırtılır.

An American woman seeking divorce from her wealthy, controlling husband falls for a romantic Parisian who saves her from his entrapment.

Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?

A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.

A woman becomes estranged from her daughter when the girl learns that she is illegitimate.

A wealthy businessman promises to donate a huge endowment to his college alma mater, but there's one condition -- his loser of a son, a student at the school, must become a football hero. Comedy.

Daily life at men and women's prison units where baseball and the marching band are serious business. Two prisoners escape in order to help paroled Steve from being blackmailed by his girlfriend's ex-partner-in-crime.

In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regarded small-town physician who often prescribes a healthy dose of common sense! But when Bull begins dating a widow (Vera Allen), the local gossips misconstrue the story. To make matters worse, Bull's plainspoken manner earns him an enemy in the wealthy owner of a nearby construction camp. But once it's learned that the camp has caused illness by polluting the local water supply, the good doctor steps in to try to restore the town's health - and his reputation!

Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in Minnesota. He has not seen her since, but believes her to be a decent and respectably employed young woman. When Anna arrives, however, it is clear that she has lived a hard life in the dregs of society, and that much of spirit has been extinguished. She falls in love with a young sailor rescued at sea by her father, but dreads to reveal to him the truth of her past. Both father and young man are deluded about her background, yet Anna cannot quite bring herself to allow them to remain deluded.

In this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a young man who stole money from a local bakery.

A Los Angeles lawyer has to go to New Orleans for a steamy case involving a troubled teen.

A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes place, a change comes over the gang.

Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.

The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter von Bagh in 1985, the festival has played host to an international who’s who of directors and each day begins with a two-hour discussion. To mark the festival’s silver anniversary, festival director Peter von Bagh edited together highlights from these dialogues to create an epic four-part choral history of cinema drawn from the anecdotes, insights, and wisdom of his all-star cast: Coppola, Fuller, Forman, Chabrol, Corman, Demy, Kieslowski, Kiarostami, Varda, Oliveira, Erice, Rouch, Gilliam, Jancso — and 64 more. Ranging across innumerable topics (war, censorship, movie stars, formative influences, America, neorealism) these voices, many now passed away, engage in a personal dialogue across the years that’s by turns charming, profound, hilarious and moving.