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Author Archives: rarefilm
Thriller (1979) Sally Potter, Colette Laffont, Rose English

Since its release in 1980, Sally Potter’s rewriting of Puccini’s opera, La Boheme, has become a classic in feminist film theory. Read More »
Millenium Traveller / Sennen tabito (1999) Jinsei Tsuji

Knowing that he has only a month to live, a pianist goes back to his beloved ocean. Read More »
The Dragon Missile / Fei long zhan (1976) Meng-Hua Ho

An evil gang of martial artists fight for a healing elixir against a specialist that fights with boomerang blades – the Dragon Missiles! Read More »
Celui qui doit mourir / He Who Must Die (1957) Jules Dassin

Three townspeople cause an uproar when they try to help refugees on a Greek island occupied by Turks. Read More »
La legge / The Law (1959) Jules Dassin, Gina Lollobrigida

Marietta, servant of aristocrat Don Cesare, is the bellezza of an Italian town where men gather Read More »
We Are All Murderers (1952) André Cayatte, Marcel Mouloudji

Rene is not a bright guy. He was taught to kill by the Resistance. Read More »
An Eye for an Eye / Oeil pour oeil (1957) André Cayatte

In North Africa Dr. Walter (W) is a very skilled surgeon but lives at a distance from the hospital. Read More »
That’ll Be the Day (1973) Claude Whatham, David Essex

Abandoned by his father at an early age, Jim MacLaine seems to have inherited the old man’s restlessness. Read More »
Tom and Viv (1994) Brian Gilbert, Willem Dafoe

In 1915, T.S. (Tom) Eliot and Vivienne Haigh-Wood elope, but her longstanding gynecological Read More »