American GI Ernie Williams, admittedly weak-kneed, has an uncanny resemblance to British Colonel MacKenzie. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Stolen Children / Il ladro di bambini (1992) Gianni Amelio, Enrico Lo Verso, Valentina Scalici, Giuseppe Ieracitano
Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children Read More »
The Image of Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press (1984) Ulrike Ottinger, Veruschka von Lehndorff, Delphine Seyrig, Tabea Blumenschein
Our organization will create a human being whom we can shape and manipulate according to our needs. Read More »
Knock on Wood (1954) Melvin Frank, Norman Panama, Danny Kaye, Mai Zetterling, Torin Thatcher
Ventriloquist Jerry Morgan has to see another love affair fail. Read More »
The Big Feast / La Grande Bouffe (1973) Marco Ferreri, Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi
Four successful middle-aged men Marcello, a pilot; Michel, a television executive Read More »
Mummy’s Boys (1936) Fred Guiol, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Barbara Pepper
Stanley Wright (Wheeler) and Aloysius C. Whittaker (Woolsey) are a couple of lazy ditch diggers Read More »
Hounddog (2007) Deborah Kampmeier, Dakota Fanning, David Morse, Piper Laurie
A drama set in the American South, where a precocious Read More »
Playing with Fire / Le jeu avec le feu (1975) Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Noiret, Anicée Alvina
When Carolina, the daughter of wealthy banker Georges de Saxe, is reported kidnapped Read More »
Chouans! (1988) Philippe de Broca, Philippe Noiret, Vincent Schmitt, Raoul Billerey
In 1793 when terror is widespread in France, peasants known as Chouans fight the revolutionaries Read More »
Isabelle Huppert: Message personnel (2020) William Karel, Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Sandrine Bonnaire
The actress Isabelle Huppert has chosen twenty film extracts to compose this mosaic Read More »