Inspired by Lindbergh’s flight, Dave Logan sets out with a Washington-Philadelphia airline but suffers financial problems. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Living on the River Agano (1992) Makoto Satô
In 1964, a chemical factory in Niigata Prefecture dumped mercury into the Agano River Read More »
Our Hospitality (1923) John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton, Natalie Talmadge, Joe Keaton
After her husband John McKay is killed in an ongoing feud with the Canfield family Read More »
Strike (1925) Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Maksim Shtraukh, Mikhail Gomorov
In Russia’s factory region during Czarist rule, there’s restlessness and strike planning among workers Read More »
Raiders of Sunset Pass (1943) John English, Eddie Dew, Smiley Burnette, Jennifer Holt
World War II is raging and the manpower shortage has hit the range since every able-bodied cowboy of military age is off fighting for Uncle Sam. Read More »
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1993) William Dear, David Dundara, Farrah Forke, Kim Miyori
Taking the title from the novel by Jules Verne, this story takes his basic premise of the desire to travel to the center of the Earth. Read More »
Welcome II the Terrordome (1995) Ngozi Onwurah, Suzette Llewellyn, Saffron Burrows, Felix Joseph
Spike and his sister Anjela live in the Terrordome, a huge ghetto that all the blacks have been forced to live in. Read More »
Embracing (1992) Naomi Kawase, Uno Kawase
A diary film about Kawase’s relationship with her Grandma and the search for her Father Read More »
Inju: The Beast in the Shadow (2008) Barbet Schroeder, Benoît Magimel, Lika Minamoto, Shun Sugata
The writer and college professor, Alexandre Fayard, researches and gives lectures about the gruesome literary work Read More »
Headstand (1981) Ernst Josef Lauscher, Christoph Waltz, Ingrid Burkhard, Elisabeth Epp
Christoph Waltz plays the role of Markus Dorn, a young man clearly unhappy in his home life. Read More »
Club Med (1986) Bob Giraldi, Jack Scalia, Linda Hamilton, Patrick Macnee
O’Shea is the easy going head honcho at Club Med. After years apart, he finally runs into his ex-wife Kate. Read More »
Man on the Tracks (1957) Andrzej Munk, Kazimierz Opalinski, Zygmunt Maciejewski, Zygmunt Zintel
In 1950, at night, a passenger train kills a man on the tracks. He is Orzechowski, an engineer since 1914. Read More »
Last Resort (1986) Zane Buzby, Charles Grodin, Robin Pearson Rose, John Ashton
George Lollar takes his family on vacation with “Club Sand”, a shoddy and untrustworthy company. Read More »
Passenger (1963) Andrzej Munk, Witold Lesiewicz, Aleksandra Slaska, Anna Ciepielewska, Jan Kreczmar
The last film of Andrzej Munk, who died in a crash during the filming. Read More »
Harvest (2011) Benjamin Cantu, Lukas Steltner, Kai Michael Müller, Steven Baade
Breathtaking in its subtle beauty, Harvest is an achingly romantic tale of an innocent but ever increasingly Read More »