Mystery writer Sian Anderson leaves her boyfriend John for three weeks of intense writing in the isolated Greek town of Monemvassia. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Odette Toulemonde (2006) Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Catherine Frot, Albert Dupontel, Jacques Weber
Odette dreams of thanking Balthazar Balsan, her favorite writer, for the optimism which she believes emanates from him. Read More »
Remember Pearl Harbor (1942) Joseph Santley, Don ‘Red’ Barry, Alan Curtis, Fay McKenzie
On 16 November, 1941 at the La Dessa U. S. army post in the Philippines Read More »
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009) Damien Chazelle, Jason Palmer, Desiree Garcia, Sandha Khin
After connecting with the shy Madeline, a jazz trumpeter embarks on a quest Read More »
Sun Don’t Shine (2012) Amy Seimetz, Kate Lyn Sheil, Kentucker Audley, AJ Bowen
“Sun Don’t Shine” follows Crystal (Kate Lyn Sheil) and her boyfriend Leo (Kentucker Audley) Read More »
The Cut Ups (1966) Antony Balch, William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin
The savage deconstruction of the relationship between image and reality. Read More »
The Widow Couderc / La veuve Couderc (1971) Pierre Granier-Deferre, Alain Delon, Simone Signoret, Ottavia Piccolo
Her youth has been spent working for a farm family, being raped by father and son Read More »
What’s Love Got to Do with It (1993) Brian Gibson, Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, RaéVen Kelly
Anna Mae Bullock always had a special voice. Soon after arriving in St. Louis to live with the mother Read More »
I Am Suzanne! (1933) Rowland V. Lee, Lilian Harvey, Gene Raymond, Leslie Banks
Tony Malatini, a puppeteer, at Paris’ Theatre des Marionettes notices that his audience consists of only 7 people. Read More »
We the Living / Noi vivi (1942) Goffredo Alessandrini, Fosco Giachetti, Alida Valli, Rossano Brazzi
The time is the Russian Revolution. The place is a country burdened with fear Read More »