Based on a true story. After Poland is overrun by Axis forces in 1939 Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Forbidden Paradise (1924) Ernst Lubitsch, Pola Negri, Adolphe Menjou, Rod La Rocque
Forbidden Paradise is a 1924 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky Read More »
Konopielka (1982) Witold Leszczynski, Krzysztof Majchrzak, Anna Seniuk, Joanna Sienkiewicz
Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village, unaffected by the civilization. Read More »
Run Home, Slow (1965) Ted Brenner, Mercedes McCambridge, Linda Gaye Scott, Allen Richards
Evidently an attempt by Mercedes McCambridge to appear in a dumber western Read More »
Mercenaries’ Trap / Capcana mercenarilor (1981) Sergiu Nicolaescu, Gheorghe Cozorici, Mircea Albulescu
The movie is based on a true story from the end of WWI, in Transylvania. Read More »
Outside Ozona (1998) J.S. Cardone, Robert Forster, Kevin Pollak, Sherilyn Fenn
A serial killer is on the prowl in the badlands of Ozona, Oklahoma Read More »
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom / Tsuioku no dansu (2002) Naomi Kawase, Kazuo Nishii, Chizuko Nishii
The director agrees to film the last days of her chronically ill friend Read More »
The Virgin Spring / Jungfrukällan (1960) Ingmar Bergman, Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom
Set in creepy 14th century Sweden, it is the sombre, powerful fable of wealthy Read More »
Bernadette Lafont, and God Created the Free Woman / Bernadette Lafont et Dieu créa la femme libre (2016) Esther Hoffenberg, Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Michel Demonteix
A journey in the company of Bernadette Lafont, French Cinema’s most atypical actress. Read More »
Oxford Blues (1984) Robert Boris, Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Amanda Pays
A young American hustler in Las Vegas spots a rich English Lady. Read More »