Virginia Radcliff, a remarkably unspoiled but naive rich-kid, finds herself at a swank girls’ school where everything appears prim and proper Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
She’s Gotta Have It (1986) Spike Lee, Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell
The story of Nola Darling’s simultaneous sexual relationships with three different men Read More »
The Heart’s Root / A Raiz do Coração (2000) Paulo Rocha, Luís Miguel Cintra, Joana Bárcia, Isabel Ruth
A Raiz do Coração (A Root of the Heart) is a Portuguese film set in the Lisbon during the festivities Read More »
Footlight Fever (1941) Irving Reis, Alan Mowbray, Donald MacBride, Elisabeth Risdon
Alan Mowbray and Donald MacBride as fly-by-night theatrical Manufacturers Avery and Crandall. Read More »
Joseph and His Brethren / Giuseppe venduto dai fratelli (1961) Luciano Ricci, Marietto, Geoffrey Horne, Finlay Currie
A brother is cast out from his family, sold in to slavery and then returns years later as a man of power Read More »
Food of Love (2002) Ventura Pons, Paul Rhys, Kevin Bishop, Juliet Stevenson
Paul, a handsome and talented music student is employed as the page-turner Read More »
Missing Johnny (2017) Xi Huang, Rima Zeidan, Lawrence Ko, Sean Huang
Hsu Zi Qi is a young woman who lives alone in the city. Lee is the autistic son of Zi Qi’s landlady Read More »
The Office Picnic (1972) Tom Cowan, John Wood
A group of public servants on their annual country picnic. Read More »
Burnt by the Sun / Utomlennye solntsem (1994) Nikita Mikhalkov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Oleg Menshikov
Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his village Read More »
Dead Man’s Trail / I död mans spår (1975) Mats Helge Olsson, Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, Isabella Kaliff, Solveig Andersson
The gold digger Tom is being chased by a gang of bandits and heads to Carson City. Read More »