Intrigued by history but neglected by his parents, Kevin, an eleven-year-old schoolboy Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
According to Pereira AKA Sostiene Pereira (1995) Roberto Faenza, Marcello Mastroianni, Joaquim de Almeida, Daniel Auteuil
Portugal 1938. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of the Lisboa, an unaffiliated evening paper. Read More »
Kings and Queen AKA Rois et reine (2004) Arnaud Desplechin, Emmanuelle Devos, Geoffrey Carey, Thierry Bosc
The stories of Nora during a brief period when her father falls ill and of Ismaël while involuntarily committed Read More »
Chandler (1971) Paul Magwood, Warren Oates, Leslie Caron, Alex Dreier
A hardboiled aging private eye is hired to find and protect a missing government witness sought after by the gangsters. Read More »
The First Great Train Robbery (1978) Michael Crichton, Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down
Sutherland and Connery wish to rob a moving train’s safe in Victorian England. Read More »
Sleepless AKA La anam (1957) Salah Abouseif, Faten Hamamah, Maryam Fakhruddin, Omar Sharif
‘I Never Sleep’ (also called ‘Sleepless’) is the story of Nadia Lotfi (Faten Hamama), a teenage girl Read More »
Beasts of Prey / Yukshik dongmul (1985) Ki-young Kim, Seong-gyeom Kim
Kim Dong-sik works at a securities firm. When his wife’s business grows and his position at home gets blurred Read More »
The Postman’s White Nights AKA Belye nochi pochtalyona Alekseya Tryapitsyna (2014) Andrey Konchalovskiy, Aleksey Tryapitsyn, Irina Ermolova, Timur Bondarenko
The film represents life in a godforsaken Russian village. The only way to reach the mainland is to cross the lake by boat Read More »
The Far Country (1954) Anthony Mann, James Stewart, Ruth Roman, Corinne Calvet
In 1896, Jeff Webster sees the start of the Klondike gold rush as a golden opportunity Read More »
Morphine AKA Morfiy (2008) Aleksey Balabanov, Leonid Bichevin, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Andrey Panin
The year is 1917. We are in the Russian countryside. It is the middle of freezing winter. Read More »