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Author Archives: rarefilm
Vixen! (1968) Russ Meyer, Erica Gavin, Garth Pillsbury, Harrison Page
Vixen lives in a Canadian mountain resort with her naive pilot husband. Read More »
The Big Game (1973) Robert Day, Stephen Boyd, France Nuyen, Ray Milland
Two soldiers of fortune are hired by an aging scientist to protect him and his invention Read More »
From a Far Country (1981) Krzysztof Zanussi, Sam Neill, Christopher Cazenove, Lisa Harrow
The film is a biography of Pope John Paul II. It starts in 1926 when the boy Karol Wojtyla was celebrating Christmas with his father in Poland. Read More »
Boycott AKA Baykot (1986) Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Mohammad Kasebi, Majid Majidi, Esmat Makhmalbaf
A young guy Valeh is arrested by the security during Shah’s reign in Iran. Read More »
Time of Love / Nobat e Asheghi (1995) Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Shiva Gered, Abdurrahman Palay, Menderes Samancilar
Part one: A brown-haired man finds out that his wife cheats on him with a blonde-haired man. Read More »
My Buddy (1944) Steve Sekely, Don ‘Red’ Barry, Ruth Terry, Lynne Roberts
A priest relates the tale of his friend, a WWI veteran, to the Post-War Planning Committee. Read More »
A Scandal in Paris (1946) Douglas Sirk, George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Carole Landis
The autobiography of elegant criminal, François Eugène Vidocq, from his birth in a French jail in 1775 Read More »
Act One (1963) Dore Schary, George Hamilton, Jason Robards
Moss Hart’s best-selling autobiography provided the basis for this colorful backstage story. Read More »
The Mirages AKA Mirazhi (1916) Pyotr Chardynin, Arsenii Bibikov, Tamara Gedevanova, Andrej Gromov
Marianna advertises for work as a reader and is employed by the reclusive millionaire Dymov. Read More »