As a crime wave sweeps through Hong Kong, the police call on Jessica Yang Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Memoir of War / La douleur (2017) Emmanuel Finkiel, Mélanie Thierry, Benoît Magimel, Benjamin Biolay
June 1944, France is still under the German occupation. Read More »
Temple of the Red Lotus / Jiang hu qi xia (1965) Teng-Hung Hsu, Ping Chin, Jimmy Wang Yu, Bo-Bo Fung
Jimmy Wang Yu plays a young kid who heads off to Dragon Valley to meet the childhood friend Read More »
Rampaging Dragon on the North / Hokkai no Abare-Ryu (1966) Kinji Fukasaku, Tatsuo Umemiya, Susumu Fujita, Nijiko Kiyokawa
The son of a prominent member of a fishing community returns home after a stint with the yakuza Read More »
The Color of Pomegranates / Sayat Nova (1969) Sergei Parajanov, Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Alekyan, Vilen Galstyan
One of cinema’s greatest masterpieces, Sergei Parajanov’s “The Color of Pomegranates,” Read More »
O Movimento das Coisas (1985) Manuela Serra
Under the Sand / Sous le sable (2000) François Ozon, Charlotte Rampling, Bruno Cremer, Jacques Nolot
Marie, a professor of English literature in a Paris university, has been happily married Read More »
The Neighbours / Naboerne (1966) Bent Christensen, Ebbe Rode, Hanne Borchsenius, John Price
Taking place on a small villa road: The two neighbors Gormsen and Sandelund Read More »
When Gangland Strikes (1956) R.G. Springsteen, Raymond Greenleaf, Marjie Millar, John Hudson
A big-time gang leader’s trial is moved to a small town. Read More »
The Wastrel / Il relitto (1961) Michael Cacoyannis, Ellie Lambeti, Van Heflin, Franco Fabrizi
Duncan Bell (Van Heflin) is a wealthy man who sets out to sail around the globe with his son. Read More »