In 1890, Gus Sascher joins the Austrian Army and romances the impoverished girl Elsa Hofner. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Party Girl (1930) Victor Halperin, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jeanette Loff, Judith Barrie
Jay Rountree, son of a wealthy manufacturer and young, rising businessman Read More »
Into Thin Air (1985) Roger Young, Ellen Burstyn, Robert Prosky, Sam Robards
Ellen Burstyn stars as the Canadian mother of a college student who vanishes mysteriously Read More »
The Three Musketeers: Part I – The Queen’s Diamonds AKA Les trois mousquetaires: Première époque – Les ferrets de la reine (1961) Bernard Borderie, Gérard Barray, Georges Descrières, Bernard Woringer
D’Artagnan is back from England with a message for the queen. Buckingham has declared Read More »
Vengeance of the Three Musketeers AKA Les trois mousquetaires: La vengeance de Milady (1961) Bernard Borderie, Gérard Barray, Mylène Demongeot, Perrette Pradier
To avenge her defeat and with the help of the Cardinal’s army leader Rochefort Read More »
The Country Girl (1982) Gary Halvorson, Michael Montel, Faye Dunaway, Dick Van Dyke, Ken Howard
Director Bernie Dodd hires alcoholic has-been actor Frank Elgin and strikes Read More »
Dinner Rush (2000) Bob Giraldi, Danny Aiello, Edoardo Ballerini, John Rothman
Is it just another evening at the hugely popular Italian restaurant of proprietor Read More »
Pictures of the Old World AKA Obrazy starého sveta (1972) Dusan Hanák
Pictures of the Old World is an unquestioned masterpiece of European documentary cinema Read More »
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 »