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Author Archives: rarefilm
Without You I’m Nothing (1990) John Boskovich, Sandra Bernhard, John Doe, Steve Antin
Sandra Bernhard stars in a studio version of her off-Broadway show Read More »
The Joy Of Living AKA La joie de vivre (2012) Jean-Pierre Améris, Anaïs Demoustier, Swann Arlaud, Marianne Basler
1863, ten-year-old Pauline’s parents have died, and she comes to live with the Chanteaus Read More »
Sonatine (1984) Micheline Lanctôt, Pascale Bussières, Marcia Pilote, Pierre F. Fauteux
Two teenaged friends have separate difficult experiences that make the girls seriously consider suicide. Read More »
Shame AKA Skammen (1968) Ingmar Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Sigge Fürst
During civil war, two musicians retreat to a rural island to farm. Read More »
Passionate Summer AKA Les possédées (1956) Charles Brabant, Madeleine Robinson, Raf Vallone, Magali Noël
Story of the effect on three women living on an isolated farm when a man comes to live there. Read More »
A Cause to Kill AKA Sha ji (1970) Mitsuo Murayama, Ivy Ling Po, Shan Kwan, Chiao Chiao
The actress plotting murderer her husband after she discover that he having an affair with her novelist friend. Read More »
A Long Long Long Night of Love AKA Una lunga lunga lunga notte d’amore (2001) Luciano Emmer, Giancarlo Giannini, Marie Trintignant, Isabelle Pasco
Several star-crossed couples experience both the thrills and the disappointment of romance over the course Read More »
Two Loves (1961) Charles Walters, Shirley MacLaine, Laurence Harvey, Jack Hawkins
American Anna Vorontosov teaches in a rural school on New Zealand’s North Island. Read More »
Sweepstakes (1931) Albert S. Rogell, Eddie Quillan, Lew Cody, James Gleason
The exciting world of horse-racing provides the setting for this lively comedy Read More »
The Expert (1932) Archie Mayo, Charles ‘Chic’ Sale, Dickie Moore, Lois Wilson
An old yet spry man comes to Chicago to live with his son and daughter-in-law. Read More »
Afternoon AKA Nachmittag (2007) Angela Schanelec, Jirka Zett, Miriam Horwitz
The first shot is a static image: a view from the stage of a theatre onto the auditorium. Read More »
The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949) Burgess Meredith, Irving Allen, Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone
In Paris, a down and out medical student Johann Radek (Franchot Tone) Read More »
Majestic Hotel Cellars AKA Les caves du Majestic (1945) Richard Pottier, Albert Préjean, Suzy Prim, Jacques Baumer
In my “cellar” where case workers all the people of a great hotel Read More »
The Cradle Snatchers (1927) Howard Hawks, Louise Fazenda, Ethel Wales, J. Farrell MacDonald
To cure their flirtatious husbands of consorting with flappers, three wives–Susan Martin Read More »