The strains of Debussy’s “Afternoon of a Faun” waft through this amusing comedy about an aging lecher’s ever-optimistic pursuit of the fair sex, for fair sex, or better. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Blame Freud (2014) Paolo Genovese, Marco Giallini, Vittoria Puccini, Anna Foglietta
Francesco Taramelli is a psychoanalyst who is dealing with three patients going through various hurdles Read More »
Flame and Women (1967) Yoshishige Yoshida, Mariko Okada, Isao Kimura, Mayumi Ogawa
A sterile man arranges for his disapproving wife to receive artificial insemination Read More »
The Private Life of Don Juan (1934) Alexander Korda, Douglas Fairbanks, Merle Oberon, Bruce Winston
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He’s arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. Read More »
Lucia (1968) Humberto Solás, Raquel Revuelta, Eslinda Núñez, Adela Legrá
Traces episodes in the lives of three Cuban women, each named Lucía Read More »
Young Thugs: Nostalgia (1998) Takashi Miike, Takeshi Caesar, Setsuko Karasuma, Yûki Nagata
Nostalgia is Takashi Miike’s favorite film of his considerable body of work. Read More »
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (1979) Allan Arkush, Joe Dante, P.J. Soles, Vincent Van Patten, Clint Howard
Vince Lombardi High School keeps losing principals to nervous breakdowns because of the students’ love of rock ‘n’ roll Read More »
Phase IV (1974) Saul Bass, Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy, Lynne Frederick
Desert ants suddenly form a collective intelligence and begin to wage war on the desert inhabitants. Read More »
Kill Me If You Can (1977) Buzz Kulik, Alan Alda, Talia Shire, John Hillerman
The story of Caryl Chessman, a convicted California rapist who spent 12 years on death row before finally being executed. Read More »
Flatfoot in Hong Kong (1975) Steno, Bud Spencer, Al Lettieri, Enzo Cannavale
Piedone (Bigfoot) Rizzo is accused of drugs trafficking. Read More »
The Cuban Love Song (1931) W.S. Van Dyke, Lawrence Tibbett, Lupe Velez, Ernest Torrence
In 1917, an American ship is about to leave San Francisco for Cuba and marines Terry, Romance and O. O. Jones Read More »
The House on 92nd Street (1945) Henry Hathaway, William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso
Preface: a stentorian narrator tells us that the USA was flooded with Nazi spies in 1939-41. Read More »
The Calling (2014) Jason Stone, Susan Sarandon, Gil Bellows, Ellen Burstyn
Detective Hazel Micallef hasn’t had much to worry about in the sleepy town of Fort Dundas Read More »
Jaws of Satan (1981) Bob Claver, Fritz Weaver, Gretchen Corbett, Jon Korkes
A preacher whose ancestors were cursed by Druids battles Satan, who has taken the form of a huge snake. Read More »
Natsu no niwa: The Friends (1994) Shinji Sômai, Rentarô Mikuni, Naoki Sakata, Yasutaka Oh
A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man Read More »