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Author Archives: rarefilm
Wild on the Beach (1965) Maury Dexter, Frankie Randall, Sherry Jackson, Gayle Caldwell

Adam Miller and Lee Sullivan both lay claim to a beach house for student boarders. Read More »
Invitation (1952) Gottfried Reinhardt, Van Johnson, Dorothy McGuire, Ruth Roman

Always believing she had a happy marriage, a young wife’s trust in her husband is shaken when she discovers that her father had paid him to marry her. Read More »
Winter A-Go-Go (1965) Richard Benedict, James Stacy, William Wellman Jr., Beverly Adams

Teenagers work, play and dance to rock ‘n’ roll at a Lake Tahoe ski lodge. Read More »
Don’s Plum (2001) R.D. Robb, Amber Benson, Scott Bloom, Kevin Connolly

A group of Los Angeles teenagers meet every day at their local diner Read More »
The Quiet American (1958) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, Claude Dauphin

In this adaptation of Graham Greene’s prophetic novel about U.S. foreign policy failure Read More »
Valley of Souls / Tantas Almas (2019) Nicolás Rincón Gille, José Arley de Jesús Carvallido Lobo

A man returns to his home in the Colombian countryside after a long fishing night Read More »
The Co(te)lette Film (2010) Mike Figgis, Sura Dohnke, Frauke Marien, Cecilia Moisio

A cinematographic adaptation of the dance performance by Ann Van den Broek. Read More »
Break of Day (1976) Ken Hannam, Sara Kestelman, Andrew McFarlane, Ingrid Mason

Tom Cooper, a married man recently returned from WWI, falls in love with an artist visiting his country town, but he has misgivings after meeting her city friends. Read More »
Who Wants to Kill Jessie? / Kdo chce zabít Jessii? (1966) Václav Vorlícek, Dana Medrická, Jirí Sovák, Olga Schoberová

In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects Read More »