Johnny runs away from Father O’Hara’s orphanage and becomes a roller skating star with the help of Mary Reeves. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
A Dog’s Will AKA O Auto da Compadecida (2000) Guel Arraes, Matheus Nachtergaele, Selton Mello, Rogério Cardoso
The lively João Grilo and the sly Chicó are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of people in a small Northeast Brazil town. Read More »
Failan AKA Pairan (2001) Hae-sung Song, Min-sik Choi, Cecilia Cheung, Dae-Hoon Jeong
After losing both her parents, Failan (Cecilia Cheung) immigrate to Korea to seek her only remaining relatives. Read More »
Wrath (2011) Jonathan Neil Dixon, Louise Janelle Bartlett, Bianca Bradey, Jazz Cohn
Traveling south to the coast through the remote Boanyoo Ranges, a group of friends encounter a stranger. Read More »
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man (1963) Ron Rice, Taylor Mead, Winifred Bryan, Julian Beck
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man is a film about protesting the industrial world and having fun doing it. Read More »
What Remains (2005) [+Extras] Steven Cantor, Sally Mann, Karen Bailey, Richard Jantz
A look at the creative process of celebrated photographer Sally Mann. Read More »
Sister My Sister (1994) Nancy Meckler, Julie Walters, Joely Richardson, Jodhi May
This all-woman production is set in provincial France in the early 1930s. Read More »
War at a Distance AKA Erkennen und verfolgen (2003) Harun Farocki
A look at production and destruction and the relation between them. Read More »
And when I die, I won’t stay dead (2015) Billy Woodberry, Roscoe Lee Browne, Susanne Cockrell, Ossie Davis
A journey into the life and work of beat poet and activist Bob Kaufman Read More »
Welfare (1975) Frederick Wiseman
WELFARE shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering Read More »