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Author Archives: rarefilm
The Departure AKA Le départ (1967) Jerzy Skolimowski, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Catherine-Isabelle Duport, Jacqueline Bir

A fast-paced comedy about a young Belgian car nut and hairdresser’s apprentice Read More »
Lisa and the Devil AKA Lisa et le Diable (1973) Mario Bava, Telly Savalas, Elke Sommer, Sylva Koscina

In this chiller from Italian director Mario Bava, Elke Sommer stars as Lisa, a young tourist who keeps running into Read More »
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) James Foley, Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin

David Mamet’s award-winning play about a group of desperate real estate agents comes to the big screen from director James Foley. Read More »
Desert Bloom (1986) Eugene Corr, Jon Voight, JoBeth Williams, Annabeth Gish

The story involves Rose Chismore’s youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Read More »
The Bubble (1966) Arch Oboler, Michael Cole, Deborah Walley, Johnny Desmond

Mysterious atmospheric effects force a pregnant woman and her husband to land their airplane Read More »
The Blue Eagle (1926) John Ford, George O’Brien, Janet Gaynor, William Russell

George and Big Jim are comrades in the Navy but rivals outside it, both fighting for the love of Rose, the local policeman’s daughter. Read More »
Lightnin’ (1925) John Ford, Jay Hunt, Madge Bellamy, Ethel Clayton

Lightnin’ Bill Jones, a man partial to the bottle, does chores and odd jobs around the Calivada Hotel Read More »
Happiness of Us Alone AKA Namonaku mazushiku utsukushiku (1961) Zenzô Matsuyama, Hideko Takamine, Keiju Kobayashi, Izumi Hara

Tragic story of a deaf-mute(Takamine) who marries another deaf-mute(Kobayashi) she at a school for the deaf. Read More »
The Age of the Earth AKA A Idade da Terra (1980) Glauber Rocha, Maurício do Valle, Jece Valadão, Antonio Pitanga

The day that Pier Paolo Pasolini was killed, Glauber Rocha decided to make this film about the life of Christ in the Third World. Read More »