Barbara Thorburn wiles away the hours with memories of Greta, her mother, the poet. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Battle in the Sea of Japan (1969) Seiji Maruyama, Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yûzô Kayama
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails Read More »
I Stand Alone (1998) Gaspar Noé, Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankie Pain
The Butcher (known from Noe’s short film Carne) has done some time in jail after beating up the guy who tried to seduce his teenage mentally-handicapped daughter. Read More »
Storms of Passion (1932) Robert Siodmak, Emil Jannings, Anna Sten, Trude Hesterberg
Utamaros World (1977) Akio Jissôji, Shin Kishida, Mikijirô Hira, Shingo Yamashiro
Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. Read More »
Safari (1956) Terence Young, Victor Mature, Janet Leigh, John Justin
An expert African guide, Ken Duffield, thirsts for revenge against the leader of a gang of rebellious Mau Maus who killed his family while he was away. Read More »
Brother Rat (1938) William Keighley, Priscilla Lane, Wayne Morris, Johnnie Davis
Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father. Read More »
70,000 Witnesses (1932) Ralph Murphy, Phillips Holmes, Dorothy Jordan, Charles Ruggles
College football player (Phillips Holmes)is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother(Lew Cody). Read More »
Goyokin (1969) Hideo Gosha, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsurô Tanba, Yôko Tsukasa
Tatsuya Nakadai plays a samurai overcome with guilt over his unwitting part in a massacre of a small village. Read More »
The Big Beat (1958) Will Cowan, William Reynolds, Andra Martin, Gogi Grant
Young man just out of college tries to persuade his father, who owns a record company, to start signing up rock ‘n’ roll acts. Read More »
No Blood Relation (1932) Mikio Naruse, Yoshiko Okada, Shin’yô Nara, Yukiko Tsukuba
An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim – with the help of her gangster brother – the daughter she abandoned years before. Read More »
The Lodger (1944) John Brahm, Laird Cregar, Merle Oberon, George Sanders
In late Victorian London, Jack the Ripper has been killing and maiming actresses in the night. Read More »
Pride and Prejudice (1940) Robert Z. Leonard, Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Edward Ashley
Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. Read More »
Lonelyhearts (1958) Vincent J. Donehue, Montgomery Clift, Myrna Loy, Robert Ryan
Eager to land a journalistic position, Adam White goes to work as an advice-giving newspaper columnist. Read More »
Panic in Bangkok (1964) André Hunebelle, Kerwin Mathews, Robert Hossein, Pier Angeli
A secret agent sets out to stop an evil scientist who is about to unleash on the world a virulent biological strain he has developed during experiments on rats. Read More »