A man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Escape / Katte ni shiyagare!! Dasshutsu keikaku (1995) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kenzô Kawarasaki, Yûko Nitô, Shirô Shimomoto
Hapless gangsters are hired by the yakuza to tail his daughter. Read More »
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / La rivière du hibou (1961) Robert Enrico, Roger Jacquet, Anne Cornaly, Anker Larsen
A Civil War civilian is to be executed by hanging, but when the plank is kicked away Read More »
You’re Not So Tough (1940) Joe May, The Dead End Kids, Nan Grey, Rosina Galli
The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York’s East Side and running around the sunny Read More »
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Heist / Katte ni shiyagare! Goudatsu-keikaku (1995) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Show Aikawa, Kensuke Asakawa, Yoriko Dôguchi
Two petty gangsters get ransomed by a group of Yakuza members Read More »
No Child of Mine (1997) Peter Kosminsky, Brooke Kinsella, Colin Salmon, Billy Geraghty
Thirteen-year-old Kerry is repeatedly sexually abused by several adults, including at one point her mother. Read More »
The War Zone (1999) Tim Roth, Ray Winstone, Annabelle Apsion, Kate Ashfield
Suddenly, the moody 15-year-old, Tom, and his 18-year-old sister, Jessie Read More »
The Sorrow and the Pity / Le chagrin et la pitié (1969) Marcel Ophüls, Helmut Tausend, Marcel Verdier, Alexis Grave
From 1940 to 1944, France’s Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Read More »
Patriotism / Yûkoku (1966) Masaki Dômoto, Yukio Mishima, Yoshiko Tsuruoka
Two characters on a Noh stage dramatize the rite of love and death of Lieutenant Shinji Takeyama and his wife Reiko. Read More »
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins: I Put a Spell on Me (2001) Nik Triantafyllidis, Frank Ash, Arthur Brown, Eric Burdon
Portrait of an important American musician through the testimonies of fellow musicians Read More »