Pictures of the Old World is an unquestioned masterpiece of European documentary cinema Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Last Supper (1995) Stacy Title, Cameron Diaz, Ron Eldard, Annabeth Gish
Jude, Luke, Marc, Paulie and Pete are liberal-minded roommates and grad students Read More »
We Are Not Children AKA Nous ne sommes plus des enfants (1934) Augusto Genina, Gaby Morlay, Claude Dauphin, Jean Wall
A Slit-Mouthed Woman 2 AKA Kuchisake-onna 2 (2008) Kôtarô Terauchi, Rin Asuka, Yukie Kawamura, Akihiro Mayama
Three sisters grow up on a chicken farm in a small town of Gifu. Read More »
The Wicked Lady (1945) Leslie Arliss, Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Patricia Roc
17th-century beauty Barbara Worth starts her career of crime by stealing her best friend’s bridegroom. Read More »
Stranger at My Door (1956) William Witney, Macdonald Carey, Patricia Medina, Skip Homeier
Notorious outlaw Clay Anderson and gang rob the town bank and flee in separate directions. Read More »
The Sea and Poison AKA Umi to dokuyaku (1986) Kei Kumai, Eiji Okuda, Ken Watanabe, Takahiro Tamura
Downed American fliers in WWII are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in cruel medical experiments. Read More »
Utopia (1976) Raoul Ruiz, Eduardo Barr, Fosi Bendek, Germán Leitzelar
Two traveling salesmen are searching for the pieces of the body of a lost friend. Read More »
Bérénice (1983) Raoul Ruiz, Anne Alvaro, Jean-Bernard Guillard, Jean Badin
A lush, baroque adaptation of Jean Racine’s 1670 tragedy about a Roman emperor Read More »
The Demise of Father Mouret AKA La faute de l’abbé Mouret (1970) Georges Franju, Francis Huster, Gillian Hills, André Lacombe
Serge Mouret is a frail and devout young priest in a tough country parish. Read More »
Sunday Punch (1942) David Miller, William Lundigan, Jean Rogers, Dan Dailey
The regular of a set of fledgling boxers living in Ma Galestrum’s boarding home is interrupted Read More »
Actors AKA Les acteurs (2000) Bertrand Blier, Pierre Arditi, Josiane Balasko, Jean-Paul Belmondo
A self-conscious and self-referential adventure into the (pretend) lives of legendary actors in Paris. Read More »
Mary Magdalene AKA La spada e la croce (1958) Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Yvonne De Carlo, Jorge Mistral, Rossana Podestà
Set against the magnificent backdrop of classic Rome, “The Sword and the Cross” Read More »
Felix and Lola AKA Félix et Lola (2001) Patrice Leconte, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Philippe Torreton, Alain Bashung
Félix, operator of dodgem cars in a fairground, becomes obsessed by one of his customers Read More »
Leave It to the Irish (1944) William Beaudine, James Dunn, Wanda McKay, Jack La Rue
Private Investigator Terry Moran (James Dunn), who is in love with Nora O’Brien Read More »