
The movie is set in chaotic 1920’s China, when warlords fought each other for power while Sun Yat-Sen’s Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Dark Blue Girl / Die Tochter (2017) Mascha Schilinski, Helena Zengel, Karsten Mielke, Artemis Chalkidou

Two years after their breakup, Hannah and Jimmy fall in love with each other again but their 7-year-old daughter schemes to keep them from reuniting. Read More »
Riders in the Sky (1949) John English, Gene Autry, Champion, Gloria Henry

When asked about the Ghost Riders song he sings, Gene Autry tells this legend: Gene is about to resign Read More »
Hearth Fires / Les feux de la chandeleur (1972) Serge Korber, Annie Girardot, Jean Rochefort, Claude Jade

Alexandre Boursault, solicitor in the provinces, would have been the happiest of men if his wife had not openly displayed Read More »
The Odd Job (1978) Peter Medak, Graham Chapman, David Jason, Diana Quick

When his wife leaves him, a neurotic husband hires an “odd job man” to kill him, but when she returns Read More »
Beyond Glory (1948) John Farrow, Alan Ladd, Donna Reed, George Macready

Rocky visits Captain Daniels’ widow, they develop feelings, and she urges him to attend West Point Read More »
An Unfinished Film (2024) Ye Lou, Hao Qin, Xiaorui Mao, Xi Qi

January 2020. A film crew reunites near Wuhan to resume the shooting of a film halted ten years earlier Read More »
Love Comes Quietly (1973) Nikolai van der Heyde, Sandy van der Linden, Barbara Hershey, Ralph Meeker

An American returns to his native Dutch village in the 1930s and causes a sensation there. Read More »
La partita (1988) Carlo Vanzina, Matthew Modine, Jennifer Beals, Corinne Cléry

A young man joins a feisty runaway as he flees from the noblewoman who won him in a wager. Read More »
Un bellissimo novembre / That Splendid November (1969) Mauro Bolognini, Gina Lollobrigida, Gabriele Ferzetti, André Lawrence

The erotic exploits of a large Sicilian family in which the father lectures Read More »