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Author Archives: rarefilm
Fortini/Cani (1976) Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Franco Fortini, Luciana Nissim, Adriano Aprà
The film is a sort of presentation of Franco Fortini’s book ‘I Cani del Sinai’. Read More »
Unashamed (1932) Harry Beaumont, Helen Twelvetrees, Robert Young, Lewis Stone
Dick will do anything to protect his sister Jean as would her father. Read More »
You’ll Find Out (1940) David Butler, Kay Kyser, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff
Kay Kyser and his orchestra are hired to entertain at the birthday party of a young heiress at a creepy old mansion Read More »
Monsieur Beaucaire (1946) George Marshall, Bob Hope, Joan Caulfield, Patric Knowles
Beaucaire is a barber for the Royal French court who becomes a real “royal pain” for the king. Read More »
A Millionaire for Christy (1951) George Marshall, Fred MacMurray, Eleanor Parker, Richard Carlson
This hilarious comedy gave MacMurray a chance to show his comedic chops as Peter Read More »
Cotton Mary (1999) Ismail Merchant, Greta Scacchi, Madhur Jaffrey, James Wilby
1954, the Malabar Coast. British and Anglo-Indian identities blur when an English-woman with a neglectful husband births a sickly baby. Read More »
Islands in the Stream (1977) Franklin J. Schaffner, George C. Scott, David Hemmings, Gilbert Roland
It’s 1940 in the British-controlled Bahamas. While the war rages on in Europe, the islands are only peripherally affected by it Read More »
Zouzou (1934) Marc Allégret, Josephine Baker, Jean Gabin, Pierre Larquey
As children, Zouzou and Jean are paired in a traveling circus as twins: she’s dark, he’s light. Read More »
The Nun’s Night (1967) Karel Kachyna, Jana Brejchová, Mnislav Hofman, Gustáv Valach
One day of autumn 1950, during the forced collectivization, the farmers lead their cattle into the common stables of the new cooperative. Read More »
The 300 Spartans (1962) Rudolph Maté, Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson, Diane Baker
Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers Read More »
The Prince of Homburg (1997) Marco Bellocchio, Andrea Di Stefano, Barbora Bobulova, Toni Bertorelli
The Prince of Homburg, disobeys orders and leads a cavalry charge in battle against the Swedes, which leads to victory. Read More »
Family (2001) Takashi Miike, Ken’ichi Endô, Kôjirô Hongô, Naoko Inoue
When the mobster Iwaida Nishikawi is executed by the hit man Takeshi, his family chases the killer. Read More »
Man of Marble (1977) Andrzej Wajda, Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Tadeusz Lomnicki
In 1976, a young woman in Krakow is making her diploma film, looking behind the scenes at the life of a 1950s bricklayer Read More »
Delinquent Boss – Ocho, the She Wolf (1969) Yukio Noda, Tatsuo Umemiya, Shin’ichi Chiba, Shigeru Katsumi
Hiroshi and his biker buddies get out of jail and start a human trafficking ring but a local yakuza group puts a stop to their business. Read More »