Michal Forman, a successful business manager, gets stuck in a traffic jam. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Ruins AKA Khandhar (1984) Mrinal Sen, Shabana Azmi, Annu Kapoor, Pankaj Kapur
Subhash is a photographer from the city, who has come to take pictures of some old temples and ruins in a village. Read More »
The Gates of Paris AKA Porte des Lilas (1957) René Clair, Pierre Brasseur, Georges Brassens, Henri Vidal
Juju, a drunken oaf who feels the need of being important to someone—anyone—and his friend, an artist Read More »
Resurrection (1980) Daniel Petrie, Ellen Burstyn, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth
Edna Mae Macaulay experiences the afterlife for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband. Read More »
Incendiary Blonde (1945) George Marshall, Betty Hutton, Arturo de Córdova, Charles Ruggles
The life of boisterous entertainer Texas Guinan is recalled from her poor childhood with a down-on-his-luck father Read More »
The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941) William Keighley, James Cagney, Bette Davis, Stuart Erwin
Oil heiress Joan is going to elope with bandleader Allen whom she’s known four days. Read More »
The Girl with a Pistol AKA La ragazza con la pistola (1968) Mario Monicelli, Monica Vitti, Stanley Baker, Corin Redgrave
A Sicilian woman, “dishonored” by her lover, goes to England with a pistol intending to murder him. Read More »
Battle of the Bulge (1965) Ken Annakin, Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. Read More »
An Obsession AKA Tsumetai chi (1997) Shinji Aoyama, Ryo Ishibashi, Yôzaburô Itô, Eiko Nagashima
An Obsession is Aoyama’s remake for the 1990s of Akira Kurosawa’s Stray Dog (“Nora inu,” 1949). Read More »
A Lame Step AKA A paso de cojo (1980) Luis Alcoriza, Luis Manuel Pelayo, Bruno Rey, Julio Alejandro Lobato
Throughout the Cristero War a bunch of disabled encouraged by the village priest connect the battle to make a battalion Read More »