Episodic look at an unlikely couple trying to make it in L.A. during the late 1970s. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
R.O.T.O.R. (1987) Cullen Blaine, Margaret Trigg, Richard Gesswein, Jayne Smith
Robotic Officer Tactical Operation Research. A prototype robot intended for crime combat escapes from the development lab and goes on a killing rampage. Read More »
Dirty Old Town (2010) Jenner Furst, Daniel Levin, William Leroy, Nicholas De Cegli, Scott Dillin
The Bowery becomes a nexus of shattered dreams when a merchant has 72 hours to pay his rent. Read More »
Patterns (1956) Fielder Cook, Van Heflin, Everett Sloane, Ed Begley
The story of the fierce and corrosive competition that exists in the executive branch Read More »
Wuthering Heights (1970) Robert Fuest, Anna Calder-Marshall, Timothy Dalton, Harry Andrews
The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. Read More »
Eden and After AKA L’éden et après (1970) Alain Robbe-Grillet, Catherine Jourdan, Pierre Zimmer, Richard Leduc
A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman. Read More »
Forest Creatures AKA Suma summarum (2010) Ivan-Goran Vitez, Vili Matula, Hana Hegedusic, Ljubisa Savanovic
The employees of a Croatian marketing agency are forced by their new boss to go on a team building weekend in the forests. Read More »
Marriage AKA Matrimonio (2013) Carlos Jaureguialzo, Cecilia Roth, Darío Grandinetti, Manuel Vicente
Esteban and Molly have been married for over twenty years. On a cold morning in June Read More »
The Chaser (1928) Harry Langdon, Gladys McConnell, Helen Hayward
A wife, tired of her husband’s non-stop carousing, sues him for divorce. Read More »
Braindead (1992) Peter Jackson, Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody
Lionel, a Mama’s boy has the unwanted honor of having to look after his overbearingly evil mother. Read More »
The Big Sleep (1978) Michael Winner, Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone
Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) is asked by the elderly General Sternwood (James Stewart) Read More »
The Silence of The Tomb AKA Un silencio de tumba (1976) Jesús Franco, Alberto Dalbés, Glenda Allen, Mario Álex
An actress and her entourage spend a weekend on an island in the Atlantic. Read More »
Where I Grow Old AKA A Cidade onde Envelheço (2016) Marília Rocha, Elizabete Francisca, Francisca Manuel, Paulo Nazareth
Two young Portuguese women try to put down roots in Brazil. Read More »
The Silence of Pelesjan AKA Il silenzio di Pelesjan (2011) Pietro Marcello, Artavazd Peleshian, Enrico Ghezzi, Aleksandra Khokhlova
Artavazd Pelesjan is an Armenian filmmaker. Unknown to the great audience, he theorizes a new kind of editing (editing by distance) Read More »
Four Flights to Love AKA Paradis perdu (1940) Abel Gance, Fernand Gravey, Elvire Popesco, André Alerme
Before World War I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre Leblanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker’s assistant. Read More »