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Author Archives: rarefilm
The Woman Who Touched the Legs (1960) Yasuzô Masumura, Machiko Kyô, Hajime Hana, Eiji Funakoshi

A pretty pickpocket is travelling on an express train from Osaka to her home village. Read More »
The Sure Thing (1985) Rob Reiner, John Cusack, Daphne Zuniga, Anthony Edwards

A North East college freshman is going through a sexual dry spell Read More »
Twixt (2011) Francis Ford Coppola, Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern, Elle Fanning

A struggling horror writer visiting a small town on a book tour gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. Read More »
Young and Dangerous (1996) Wai Keung Lau, Ekin Cheng, Jordan Chan, Gigi Lai

Nam opens a bar in Wanchai and continues his rise in Hong Kong’s Hung Hing gang. Read More »
Svengali (1931) Archie Mayo, John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Crisp

Sinister music maestro Svengali can control the actions of women through hypnotism and his telepathic powers. Read More »
A Flame in My Heart (1987) Alain Tanner, Myriam Mézières, Benoît Régent, Azize Kabouche

The film relates the painful ending of a love story binding an over-30-year-old woman and a North African Read More »
The Running Man (1963) Carol Reed, Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick, Alan Bates

Hard up and with a grudge against insurance companies, Rex Black feigns his death Read More »
Crack House (1989) Michael Fischa, Jim Brown, Anthony Geary, Richard Roundtree

In this bristling, urban drama, two teenage lovers must overcome tremendous odds to make Read More »
Shinrei (1996) Junji Inagawa, Masayuki Miyake, Rumi, Mizuki Sano

Junji Inagawa, a guide to the spirit world, has collected and filmed his own spiritual Read More »