When asked about the Ghost Riders song he sings, Gene Autry tells this legend: Gene is about to resign Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Hearth Fires / Les feux de la chandeleur (1972) Serge Korber, Annie Girardot, Jean Rochefort, Claude Jade
Alexandre Boursault, solicitor in the provinces, would have been the happiest of men if his wife had not openly displayed Read More »
The Odd Job (1978) Peter Medak, Graham Chapman, David Jason, Diana Quick
When his wife leaves him, a neurotic husband hires an “odd job man” to kill him, but when she returns Read More »
Beyond Glory (1948) John Farrow, Alan Ladd, Donna Reed, George Macready
Rocky visits Captain Daniels’ widow, they develop feelings, and she urges him to attend West Point Read More »
An Unfinished Film (2024) Ye Lou, Hao Qin, Xiaorui Mao, Xi Qi
January 2020. A film crew reunites near Wuhan to resume the shooting of a film halted ten years earlier Read More »
Love Comes Quietly (1973) Nikolai van der Heyde, Sandy van der Linden, Barbara Hershey, Ralph Meeker
An American returns to his native Dutch village in the 1930s and causes a sensation there. Read More »
La partita (1988) Carlo Vanzina, Matthew Modine, Jennifer Beals, Corinne Cléry
A young man joins a feisty runaway as he flees from the noblewoman who won him in a wager. Read More »
Un bellissimo novembre / That Splendid November (1969) Mauro Bolognini, Gina Lollobrigida, Gabriele Ferzetti, André Lawrence
The erotic exploits of a large Sicilian family in which the father lectures Read More »
The Night Affair (1958) Gilles Grangier, Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Nadja Tiller
Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police, takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Read More »
Boj na Kosovu / The Battle of Kosovo (1989) Zdravko Sotra, Milos Zutic, Gorica Popovic, Vojislav Brajovic
On June 28th 1389, at Kosovo Polje, an army of the Serbian Prince Lazar made a stand against the advancing Ottoman forces of Sultan Murad Read More »