
Atterbury Dodd is an efficiency expert who believes everything can be reduced to mathematics. He is sent to Hollywood to see whether Colossal Pictures is a good investment. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Great Ziegfeld (1936) Robert Z. Leonard

At the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, sideshow barker Flo Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more successful neighbor Billings Read More »
Author! Author! (1982) Arthur Hiller, Al Pacino

Playwright Travalian feels pulled limb from limb these days. He has a Broadway play in rehearsal and they want rewrites. Read More »
The Tao of Steve (2000) Jenniphr Goodman

Underachieving, overweight kindergarten teacher Dex finds a woman who forces him to reexamine his Zen-like system of seduction. Read More »
Agenda: Grinding America Down (2010)

When Idaho Legislator Curtis Bowers wrote a “letter to the editor” about the drastic changes in America’s culture Read More »
Nietzsche and the Nazis (2006)

One of the intellectual giants of the 19th century, Friedrich Nietzsche had an impact on countless future intellectuals and writers. Read More »
Innocence of Memories (2015) Grant Gee

Orhan Pamuk – Turkey’s Nobel laureate for Literature – opens a museum in Istanbul. Read More »
Mansfield Park (1999) Patricia Rozema

Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly Read More »
Servant and Mistress (1977) Servante et maîtresse

When a rich man dies, his maid Maria unexpectedly becomes his heir. Read More »
The Claws of the Divine Beast (1980)

Based on a mystery by Taiwanese-Japanese author Chin Shun-shin. After two elderly men in Yokohama quarrel Read More »