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Author Archives: rarefilm
Forevermore: Biography of a Leach Lord (1989) Eric Saks, Gail Faggard, Michael Scroggins, Scott Shelley

This meditative, sometimes violent pseudodocumentary examines the effect of toxic waste dumping on America’s landscape and its psyche. Read More »
She’s Working Her Way Through College (1952) H. Bruce Humberstone, Virginia Mayo, Ronald Reagan, Gene Nelson

Shapely burlesque dancer Hot Garters Gertie aka Angela Gardner meets her former teacher John Palmer Read More »
The Strongest / Den starkaste (1929) Axel Lindblom, Alf Sjöberg, Anders Henrikson, Bengt Djurberg, Gun Holmqvist

Skipper Larsen and his assistant Ole, are planning the season’s seal and bear-hunting trip to Spetzbergen with the ship “Viking”. Read More »
Or (My Treasure) (2004) Keren Yedaya, Dana Ivgy, Ronit Elkabetz, Meshar Cohen

Or shoulders a lot: she’s 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash Read More »
Why Not? / Eijanaika (1981) Shôhei Imamura, Shigeru Izumiya, Kaori Momoi, Masao Kusakari

Near the turbulent end of the Edo era, a man returning to Japan after exile in America Read More »
Get on the Bus (1996) Spike Lee, Ossie Davis, Charles S. Dutton, Andre Braugher

Get on the Bus follows several Black men on a cross country bus trip to the Million Man March. Read More »
My Brother the Devil (2012) Sally El Hosaini, James Krishna Floyd, Elarica Johnson, Fady Elsayed

Mo is a young boy growing up in a traditional Egyptian household, but beyond the front door Read More »
Dear Mr. Prohack (1949) Thornton Freeland, Cecil Parker, Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley

Arthur Prohack (Cecil Parker) is an official in the Treasury Department with a reputation Read More »
Stolen Kisses / Baisers volés (1968) François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Delphine Seyrig

Antoine Doinel joined the army but has just been discharged. Read More »