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Author Archives: rarefilm
The Better ‘Ole (1926) Charles Reisner, Syd Chaplin, Harold Goodwin, Jack Ackroyd
The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War. Read More »
Men and War II / Senso to ningen II: Ai to kanashimino sanga (1971) Satsuo Yamamoto, Osamu Takizawa, Shinsuke Ashida, Hideki Takahashi
The second part follow the the stories of two brothers serving in different units of the Imperial Japanese army Read More »
Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (2002) Aparna Sen, Rahul Bose, Konkona Sen Sharma, Bhisham Sahni
Meenakshi Iyer comes from a devout Hindu Brahmin family, purely vegetarian Read More »
End of an Affair / So endete eine Liebe (1934) Karl Hartl, Paula Wessely, Willi Forst, Gustaf Gründgens
The political advisor to the French emperor Napoleon, and the Austrian emperor Franz I Read More »
Eleven Samurai / Jûichinin no samurai (1967) Eiichi Kudô, Isao Natsuyagi, Kôtarô Satomi, Kôji Nanbara
The lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic Nariatsu Read More »
80 Hussars / 80 huszár (1978) Sándor Sára, László Dózsa, György Cserhalmi, Jácint Juhász
The film tells the story of a regiment of Hungarian hussars stationed in Poland. Read More »
Samurai Wolf / Kiba Ôkaminosuke (1966) Hideo Gosha, Isao Natsuyagi, Ryôhei Uchida, Junko Miyazono
This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba Read More »
Clean, Shaven (1993) Lodge Kerrigan, Peter Greene, Alice Levitt, Megan Owen
Peter Winter is a young schizophrenic who is desperately trying to get his daughter back from her adoptive family. Read More »
The Luzhin Defence (2000) Marleen Gorris, John Turturro, Emily Watson, Geraldine James
Set in the late 1920s, The Luzhin Defence tells the story of a shambling, unworldly chess Grand Master Read More »