Carpet-sweeper manufacturer John Bower has no patience with inefficiency Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Youth Takes a Fling (1938) Archie Mayo, Joel McCrea, Andrea Leeds, Frank Jenks
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. Read More »
Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story / Tsisperi mtebi anu daujerebeli ambavi (1983) Eldar Shengelaia, Ramaz Giorgobiani, Vasil Kakhniashvili, Teimuraz Chirgadze
In an off-beat story told in three acts and an epilogue, a young writer tries unsuccessfully Read More »
Always in My Heart (1942) Jo Graham, Kay Francis, Walter Huston, Gloria Warren
After several decades, MacKenzie Scott is pardoned in prison, but his wife is involved with another guy. Read More »
Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! (1989) Monte Hellman, Samantha Scully, Bill Moseley, Richard C. Adams
Ricky Caldwell, the notorious ‘Killer Santa Claus’, awakens from a six year coma after Read More »
Zaytoun (2012) Eran Riklis, Stephen Dorff, Abdallah El Akal, Alice Taglioni
In 1982, amid the Lebanese Civil War, Israeli pilot Yoni (Stephen Dorff) is shot down over Beirut Read More »
Warsaw: Year 5703 / Warszawa. Année 5703 (1992) Janusz Kijowski, Lambert Wilson, Hanna Schygulla, Julie Delpy
In the winter of 1943 two young Jews, Alek and Fryda, escape, via sewer tunnels Read More »
The Treaty (1991) Jonathan Lewis, Brendan Gleeson, Patrick Condren, Ian Bannen
In 1921, the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic Read More »
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) Roland Joffé, Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia
In real life, Robert Oppenheimer was the scientific head of the Manhattan Project Read More »
Shine (1996) Scott Hicks, Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Justin Braine
As a child piano prodigy, David Helfgott’s musical ambitions generate Read More »