Gus Brubaker has been drafted… again. Due to a clerical error, Gus finds himself deployed to a little Japanese island Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Strike (2006) Volker Schlöndorff, Katharina Thalbach, Dominique Horwitz, Andrzej Chyra
A nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland’s Solidarity union. Read More »
Edge of Sanity (1989) Gérard Kikoïne, Anthony Perkins, Glynis Barber, Sarah Maur Thorp
When Henry Jekyll’s experiments with cocaine have gotten out of control, he transforms into the hideous Jack Hyde. Read More »
Victoria (2013) Torun Lian, Iben Akerlie, Jakob Oftebro, Bill Skarsgård
A dramatizing of Knut Hamsun’s famous novel from 1898, Victoria, which is about the tragic Read More »
The Ninth Day (2004) Volker Schlöndorff, Ulrich Matthes, August Diehl, Hilmar Thate
In World War II, after a period living hell on earth in the concentration camp of Dachau with other catholic priests Read More »
A Boy Called H (2013) Yasuo Furuhata, Yutaka Mizutani, Ran Itô, Tatsuki Yoshioka
Told from the viewpoint of the father Morio (Yutaka Mizutani), “A Boy Called H” follows a young boy named Hajime Senoh, nicknamed “H”. Read More »
Baja Oklahoma (1988) Bobby Roth, Lesley Ann Warren, Peter Coyote, Swoosie Kurtz
Dan Jenkins co-wrote the screenplay based on his novel of the same name about Juanita Read More »
Zardoz (1974) John Boorman, Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman
In the future, Earth is ruled by Eternals, an advanced and secret sect of beings who reign over a savage group called Brutals. Read More »
The Black Cat (1966) Harold Hoffman, Robert Frost, Robyn Baker, Sadie French
A mentally unbalanced man is obsessed with the idea that a black cat is possessed. Read More »
Ride a Violent Mile (1957) Charles Marquis Warren, John Agar, Penny Edwards, John Pickard
Cowhand Jeff Donner meets Susan Crowley, a spy for the Union in the Civil War Read More »
Papa’s Delicate Condition (1963) George Marshall, Jackie Gleason, Glynis Johns, Charles Ruggles
If Jack Griffith’s wife doesn’t like the color of a neighbor’s house, he’ll arrange for it to be a house of a different color. Read More »
Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979) Peter Brook, Dragan Maksimovic, Terence Stamp, Mikica Dimitrijevic
The story of G.I. Gurdjieff and his travels to achieve enlightenment and inner growth. Read More »
Madame X (1966) David Lowell Rich, Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Ricardo Montalban
A woman married to a wealthy socialite, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who had been romantically pursuing her Read More »
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) Albert Lewin, George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed
In 1886, in the Victorian London, the corrupt Lord Henry Wotton meets the pure Dorian Gray posing for talented painter Basil Hallward. Read More »
Keep It for Yourself (1991) Claire Denis, Sophie Simon, Sarina Chan, Vincent Gallo
Sophie comes to New York from France with the intention of joining a man she met a few months before. Read More »