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Author Archives: rarefilm
Desert Fury (1947) Lewis Allen, John Hodiak, Lizabeth Scott, Burt Lancaster

Fritzi Haller is a powerful casino owner in Chuckawalla, Nevada. Her daughter Paula (having quit school) Read More »
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972) Peter Medak, Alan Bates, Janet Suzman, Peter Bowles

A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain-dead. Read More »
Maigret voit rouge / Maigret Sees Red (1963) Gilles Grangier, Jean Gabin, Françoise Fabian, Roland Armontel

Gangsters from the United States try to kill a key government witness whose testimony could help Read More »
Sanjuro (1962) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi

A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle Read More »
The Vampire Family (1990) Gennadiy Klimov, Igor Shavlak, Yelena Karadzhova, Yuriy Katin-Yartsev, Nikolay Kochegarov

A newspaper sends a young reporter into the Russian countryside to make a nice, sensationalist yarn out of some strange stories going around. Read More »
Somersault in a Coffin (1996) Dervis Zaim, Ahmet Ugurlu, Tuncel Kurtiz, Aysen Aydemir

A homeless man named Mahsun survives in Istanbul’s Rumelihisari by stealing cars at night and returning them clean. Read More »
The Roost (2005) Ti West, Tom Noonan, Karl Jacob, Vanessa Horneff

Creatures of the night find new prey on the scariest night of the year in this horror story. Read More »
Memories of Matsuko (2006) Tetsuya Nakashima, Miki Nakatani, Eita Nagayama, Yûsuke Iseya

When Matsuko is murdered, her nephew, Sho, gets to progressively unveil the many details of her mysterious past Read More »
Wenn’s juckt wird gejodelt (1975) Quirin Steinar, Fritz Korn, Olli Maier, Erich Kleiber

The ship’s captain Sepp Brunn Höfer (Willy Harlander) returns after nearly twenty years Read More »