Wondering about the meaning and modalities of their triage, presumably to live or burn, Jewish Auschwitz barrack mates start to debate on how Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Jack (2014) Edward Berger, Ivo Pietzcker, Georg Arms, Luise Heyer
For JACK (10), having a family is the most important thing in the world. Then, one day, his mother disappears. Read More »
Aida (1953) Clemente Fracassi, Sophia Loren, Renata Tebaldi, Lois Maxwell
Aida, featuring the actress Sophia Lauren, was a film adaptation of a theatre performance written by Verdi. Read More »
A Dangerous Game (1941) John Rawlins, Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Jean Brooks
Detectives Dick Williams and Andy McAllister find themselves trying to solve several crimes at an isolated mentally-ill hospital Read More »
North to the Klondike (1942) Erle C. Kenton, Broderick Crawford, Evelyn Ankers, Andy Devine
Nate Carson (Lon Chaney, Jr.) plans to run off the group of homesteaders out of the valley Read More »
Primal Fear (1996) Gregory Hoblit, Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Edward Norton
Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the greater good. Read More »
And Soon the Darkness (1970) Robert Fuest, Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice, Sandor Elès
Jane and Cathy, two English women in their early twenties, are on a cycling tour. Read More »
Play for Today: Nuts in May (1976) Mike Leigh, Roger Sloman, Alison Steadman, Anthony O’Donnell
Their Morris packed to the gills, the punctilious Keith and the more spontaneous Candice-Marie arrive at a Dorset Read More »
Black and White Like Day and Night / Schwarz und weiß wie Tage und Nächte (1978) Wolfgang Petersen, Bruno Ganz, Gila von Weitershausen, René Deltgen
A scientist who swore off playing chess after a nervous breakdown as a boy wunderkind Read More »
The Wicked Lady (1983) Michael Winner, Faye Dunaway, Alan Bates, John Gielgud
Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Read More »