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Author Archives: rarefilm
Savage Souls / Les âmes fortes (2001) Raoul Ruiz, Laetitia Casta, Frédéric Diefenthal, Arielle Dombasle
At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Read More »
Just a Damned Soldier / Un maledetto soldato (1988) Ferdinando Baldi, Peter Hooten, Mark Gregory, Romano Kristoff
Far East. A commando led by the mercenary Ernst, a veteran of Vietnam Read More »
Butterflies in Heat (1979) Cash Baxter, Matt Collins, Roxanne Gregory, Barbara Baxley
A male hustler drifts into Key West, where he becomes involved in a series of steamy Read More »
Blazing Battle / Lebak Membara (1983) Imam Tantowi, George Rudy, El Manik, Ratno Timoer
The people of Indonesia rise against their Japanese oppressors. Read More »
The Goose and the Gander (1935) Alfred E. Green, Kay Francis, George Brent, Genevieve Tobin
When Georgiana Summers learns that the peroxide man-eater who stole her husband is planning a romantic weekend with a new love Read More »
The Wedding Party (1969) Brian De Palma, Wilford Leach, Valda Setterfield, Raymond McNally, John Braswell
See Robert DeNiro in his first starring role in Brian DePalma’s wildly comic first feature The Wedding Party! Read More »
Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1938) Louis King
On the eve of his wedding Captain Hugh Drummond is off to Morocco when Scotland Yard’s Colonel J.A. Nielson Read More »
Sour Grape / Hndzan (1974) Bagrat Oganesyan, A. Isahakyan, Sos Sargsyan, H. Azizyan
Far behind the lines Vahe receives the news of his father’s death. Read More »
The Man Who Died Twice (1958) Joseph Kane, Rod Cameron, Vera Ralston, Mike Mazurki
A nightclub singer loses her husband in an auto crash, and shortly afterward witnesses the murders of two narcotics agents, also suffers a nervous breakdown. Read More »