
This is a little like an extended but half-serious variation on the “Uptown Girl” song video where the working-class guy meets the beautiful model from the billboard. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Five Scouts AKA Gonin no sekkôhei (1938) Tomotaka Tasaka, Isamu Kosugi, Bontarô Miake, Ichirô Izawa

Five airmen set out on a reconnaissance mission over northern China; the worst is feared when only four of them return. Read More »
Le dolci signore (1968) Luigi Zampa, Ursula Andress, Virna Lisi, Claudine Auger

In this delightful romantic comedy, four beautiful women attempt to deal with their sexual frustrations in fashionable Rome society. Read More »
Man with a Movie Camera AKA Chelovek s kino-apparatom (1929) Dziga Vertov, Mikhail Kaufman

Soviet director Dziga Vertov’s experimental film grew out of his belief, shared by his editor Read More »
Walker (1987) Alex Cox, Ed Harris, Richard Masur, Rene Auberjonois

William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century Read More »
The Angelic Conversation (1985) Derek Jarman, Phillip Williamson, Judi Dench, Dave Baby

An unseen woman recites Shakespeare’s sonnets – fourteen in all – as a man wordlessly seeks his heart’s desire. Read More »
Les yeux clairs / Pale eyes (2005) Jérôme Bonnell, Nathalie Boutefeu, Marc Citti, Judith Rémy

Fanny lives with her brother and his girlfriend in their long time dead parents’ house. Read More »
So Proudly We Hail! (1943) Mark Sandrich, Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake

A group of U.S. Army nurses leaves San Francisco for their tour of duty in Hawaii in December 1941. Read More »
Ninfa plebea / The Nymph (1996) Lina Wertmüller, Stefania Sandrelli, Raoul Bova, Lucia Cara

In the World War II, in a small Italian village, Nunziata is an easy woman married with the cuckold tailor Gioacchino. Read More »
Miss Europe AKA Prix de beauté (1930) Augusto Genina, Louise Brooks, Georges Charlia, Augusto Bandini

Lucienne, typist and gorgeous bathing beauty, decides to enter the ‘Miss Europe’ pageant sponsored by the French newspaper she works for. Read More »