The Paris Opera Ballet is one of the world’s great ballet companies. The film follows the rehearsals and performances of seven ballets Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Tonnerre (2013) Guillaume Brac, Vincent Macaigne, Solène Rigot, Bernard Menez
Maxime returns to live with his father in a small town in Burgundy (Tonnerre). Read More »
Burning Snow AKA Xue zai shao (1988) Patrick Tam, Simon Yam, Chuan-Chen Yeh, Chih-Cheng Hsueh
A young woman is forced to marry an older man who runs a roadhouse saloon. Read More »
Loophole (1954) Harold D. Schuster, Barry Sullivan, Charles McGraw, Dorothy Malone
A bank teller attempts to clear his name and rebuild his career after he is wrongly accused of theft. Read More »
The Steel Trap (1952) Andrew L. Stone, Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Jonathan Hale
A Bank officer discovers a flaw in the U.S. extradition treaty with Brazil and decides to take advantage of it. Read More »
I’ll Be Seeing You (1944) William Dieterle, George Cukor, Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple
Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough Read More »
Trade Winds (1938) Tay Garnett, Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy
Kay Kerrigan commits a murder and then changes her hair color, assumes a new identity and flees the country by ship. Read More »
Mudhoney (1965) Russ Meyer, Hal Hopper, Antoinette Cristiani, John Furlong
It’s 1933, in the midst of the Depression and Prohibition. Calif, a stranger with a past walks into Spooner Read More »
You and Me (1974) David Carradine, Richard Chadbourne II, Bobbie Shaw Chance
The story of the friendship between a biker on the run and a young boy. Read More »
Unforgivable AKA Impardonnables (2011) André Téchiné, André Dussollier, Carole Bouquet, Mélanie Thierry
A crime writer living in Venice while working on his new novel meets and soon marries his real-estate agent. Read More »