
An Italian summer in black and white. Not very far away from the old border that divided Eastern and Western Europe there is Bibione. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Tonight or Never (1931) Mervyn LeRoy, Gloria Swanson, Melvyn Douglas, Alison Skipworth

A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances Read More »
Gold Dust Gertie (1931) Lloyd Bacon, Winnie Lightner, Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson

A gold digger (Winnie Lightner) goes after money from her ex-husbands (Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson), swimsuit salesmen now married to twins. Read More »
Big Time or Bust (1933) Sam Newfield, Regis Toomey, Gloria Shea, Walter Byron

Two newly married carnival performers head to New York to make it big on Broadway Read More »
Look Who’s Laughing (1941) Allan Dwan, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Jim Jordan

Several popular radio personalities converge in the RKO Radio “comedy salad” Look Who’s Laughing. Read More »
Betrayed (1954) Gottfried Reinhardt

Carla Van Oven becomes an allied spy for the British intelligence in The Netherlands during WW2 Read More »
Lilies of the Field (1963) Ralph Nelson, Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann

Homer Smith, an unemployed construction worker heading out west, stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. Read More »
The Red Mill (1927) Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle, Marion Davies, Owen Moore, Louise Fazenda

Tina works as a barmaid at the Red Mill Tavern and is at the mercy of volatile and bad tempered owner, Willem. Read More »
The Mad Fox AKA Koiya koi nasuna koi (1962) Tomu Uchida, Hashizô Ôkawa, Michiko Saga, Ryûnosuke Tsukigata

In the reign of the Emperor Suzaku (930- 946 A.D.), various mishaps happen after a strange white Read More »
Back Against the Wall (2002) James Fotopoulos, Debbie Mulcahy, Martin Shannon, Ernie E. Frantz

Levey (Martin Shannon) lives in a harshly lit apartment decorated with mostly cardboard boxes. Read More »