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Author Archives: rarefilm
It Doesn’t Hurt Me AKA Mne ne bolno (2006) Aleksey Balabanov, Renata Litvinova, Aleksandr Yatsenko, Dmitriy Dyuzhev

Three young friends have all they need for a sterling life besides money. Read More »
Girls in Distress AKA Jeunes filles en détresse (1939) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Marcelle Chantal, Jacqueline Delubac, André Luguet

Jacqueline is sixteen. Her parents are kept very busy by their mutual careers (Dad is a renowned attorney and Mum is a doctor running her own clinic). Read More »
The Day the Bookies Wept (1939) Leslie Goodwins, Joe Penner, Betty Grable, Richard Lane

The taxi drivers of the Colonel Cab Company are tired of losing money at the racetrack. Read More »
Lady Be Careful (1936) Theodore Reed, Lew Ayres, Mary Carlisle, Benny Baker

A group of marines bet one of them that he can’t get a ribbon from a particular girl on a yacht. In fact they fall in love and live happily ever after. Read More »
Providence (1977) Alain Resnais, Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, John Gielgud

Clive Langham (Sir John Gielgud) spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relatives. Read More »
Stars and Bars (1988) Pat O’Connor, Daniel Day-Lewis, Harry Dean Stanton, Kent Broadhurst

A British art expert travels across America in order to purchase a rare Renoir painting Read More »
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999) Paul Cox, Keanu Kapuni-Szasz, David Wenham, Jan Kleinejan

The true story of the 19th century priest who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers. Read More »
Games of Clouds and Rain AKA Les jeux des nuages et de la pluie (2013) Benjamin de Lajarte, Simon Yam, Heling Li, Audrey Dana

Li Qin leaves her temperamental husband and unknowingly provides a trail for a detective who has been, for months, secretly devoted to her. Read More »
The Mountain AKA Dag (2012) Alper Caglar, Caglar Ertugrul, Ufuk Bayraktar, Firat Dogruloglu

A four man team sent from headquarters to repair a comm station suddenly falls into a terrorist ambush on the peaks of a mountain. Read More »