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Author Archives: rarefilm
San Antone (1953) Joseph Kane, Rod Cameron, Arleen Whelan, Forrest Tucker

After the Civil War, a cowboy who’s a former Union soldier leads a cattle Read More »
The New Country / Det nya landet (2000) Geir Hansteen Jorgensen, Mike Almayehu, Ingrid Luterkort, Michalis Koutsogiannakis

A 15 year old Somalian boy meets a 40 year old Iranian man on a refugee camp in Skåne Read More »
Sword of Desperation / Hisshiken torisashi (2010) Hideyuki Hirayama, Etsushi Toyokawa, Chizuru Ikewaki, Kôji Kikkawa

A talented but troubled Edo Period swordsman, Kanemi Sanzaemon. Read More »
Campus Rhythm (1943) Arthur Dreifuss, Johnny Downs, Gale Storm, Robert Lowery

Radio singer Joan Abbott, known as the “Crunchy-Wunchy Thrush” Read More »
Poor But Beautiful / Poveri ma belli (1957) Dino Risi, Marisa Allasio, Maurizio Arena, Renato Salvatori

Salvatore and Romolo are two young and poor young men that are neighbours and friends. Read More »
Bedelia (1946) Lance Comfort, Margaret Lockwood, Ian Hunter, Barry K. Barnes

Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. Read More »
H.M.S. Defiant (1962) Lewis Gilbert, Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Maurice Denham

Defiant’s crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Read More »
City Limits (1984) Aaron Lipstadt, John Stockwell, Darrell Larson, Rae Dawn Chong

Years after a mysterious plague has wiped out most of the adult population Read More »
Utu (1984) Geoff Murphy, Anzac Wallace, Bruno Lawrence, Tim Elliott

In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Maori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. Read More »