Harald Berger and his Indian lover, the temple dancer Seetha, desperately flee from the shikaris (cavalry) of Eschanapur’s maharajah Chandra Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Too Many Girls (1940) George Abbott, Lucille Ball, Richard Carlson, Ann Miller
Mr Casey’s daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge he sends Read More »
Night Train to Memphis (1946) Lesley Selander, Roy Acuff, Roy Acuff’s Smoky Mountain Boys, Allan Lane
On a train heading into the small mountain town of Tranquility, Danny Acuff kisses Read More »
The Fate of Lee Khan / Ying chun ge zhi Fengbo (1973) King Hu, Li Hua Li, Roy Chiao, Feng Hsu
Lee Khan, a high official under Mongolian Emperor Yuan of the Yuan dynasty (year 1366) Read More »
The Valiant Ones / Zhong lie tu (1975) King Hu, Feng Hsu, Ying Bai, Roy Chiao
The emperor dispatches an officer and a small band of men to deal with pirates. Read More »
War of the Buttons / La guerre des boutons (1962) Yves Robert, Jacques Dufilho, Yvette Etiévant, Michel Galabru
For generations, two rival French villages, Longueverne and Velrans, have been at war. Read More »
Angélique, marquise des anges (1964) Bernard Borderie, Michèle Mercier, Robert Hossein, Jean Rochefort
In this first part of the Angélique cycle, set in Mid-17th century France under the young Sun King Louis XIV Read More »
My Generation / Mai jeneoreisheon (2004) Dong-seok No, Byeong-seok Kim, Jae-kyeong Yu, Seong-jin Choi
A film about the troubles of Korean youths teetering on the edge of poverty Read More »
Mécanix (2003) Rémy M. Larochelle, Stéphane Bilodeau, Julie-Anne Côté, Philippe Chabot
Mecanix tells the story of the last human beings who are forced to be the slaves of the strange Read More »
Kogarashi Monjiro 2: Secret of Monjiro’s Birth / Kogarashi Monjirô: Kakawari gozansen (1972) Sadao Nakajima, Bunta Sugawara, Etsuko Ichihara, Kunie Tanaka
Tsunehei of Hachiman is all smiles after Monjiro saves his life. He introduces Monjiro to Omitsu Read More »