Told in semi-documentary style, this film deals with a little-known section Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Fed One / Hranjenik (1970) Vatroslav Mimica, Fabijan Sovagovic, Nikola-Kole Angelovski, Giuseppe Addobbati
Group of concentration camp prisoners is being constantly tortured by their Kappo. Read More »
The Beggar’s Opera (1953) Peter Brook, Laurence Olivier, Hugh Griffith, George Rose
Authentic rendering of John Gay’s 18th century musical, filmed in Technicolor Read More »
Blackout (1985) Douglas Hickox, Keith Carradine, Kathleen Quinlan, Richard Widmark
A police officer suspects that a local husband and father who has recently undergone facial surgery Read More »
The Mirror Crack’d (1980) Guy Hamilton, Angela Lansbury, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson
The year is 1953. The small English village of St. Mary Mead, home to Miss Jane Marple Read More »
Inferno of Torture / Tokugawa irezumi-shi: Seme jigoku (1969) Teruo Ishii, Teruo Yoshida, Masumi Tachibana, Asao Koike
High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their “production”. Read More »
The Cobra Strikes (1948) Charles Reisner, Sheila Ryan, Richard Fraser, Leslie Brooks
Hard-boiled reporter Mike Kent investigates the murder of a prominent scientist Read More »
Playtime (1967) Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden
Monsieur Hulot has to contact an American official in Paris, but he gets lost in the maze Read More »
Run, Psycho, Run / Più tardi Claire, più tardi… (1968) Brunello Rondi, Gary Merrill, Elga Andersen, Georges Rivière
A man and his wife are vacationing on the Tuscan coast in 1912. When the wife is murdered Read More »
Husbands and Lovers / La villa del venerdì (1991) Mauro Bolognini, Julian Sands, Joanna Pacula, Tchéky Karyo
Young cinematographer Stefano and his wife Alina, who cannot have children, sincerely love each other Read More »