In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Waiting AKA Entezar (1974) Amir Naderi, Zohreh Ghahremani, Hasan Heidari, Farzaneh Yousefi
One of Naderi’s most beautiful films, a kind of magical realist parable that follows a boy’s daily chore Read More »
The Helen Morgan Story (1957) Michael Curtiz, Ann Blyth, Paul Newman, Richard Carlson
The 1920’s and 30’s career of singer Helen Morgan is followed from her early days singing outdoors in a carnival Read More »
The Great O’Malley (1937) William Dieterle, Pat O’Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Sybil Jason
Officer O’Malley arrests John Phillips for a traffic violation and costs him a chance at a good job. Read More »
Daniel (1983) Sidney Lumet, Timothy Hutton, Mandy Patinkin, Lindsay Crouse
The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson Read More »
Thomas Harlan – Wandersplitter (2007) Christoph Hübner, Thomas Harlan, Gabriele Voss
A sanatory in the south of Germany, a room with a view to the Bavarian Alpes. Read More »
Singapore (1947) John Brahm, Fred MacMurray, Ava Gardner, Roland Culver
After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Read More »
The Water Magician AKA Taki no shiraito (1933) Kenji Mizoguchi, Takuaki Seiryô, Tokihiko Okada, Ichirô Sugai, Bontarô Miake
Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling carnival troupe. Read More »
Golden Eels AKA Zlatí úhori (1979) Karel Kachyna, Vladimír Mensík, Miroslava Hozová, Rudolf Hrusínský
A little boy, named Prdelka, traveled with his father from Prague to the country during the Second World War. Read More »
Waterberry Tears (2010) Adrian Aldaz, Raul Rodriguez, Juan Loaiza, Marisol Reyes
This is a coming of age story about a gay boy in a Mexican family Read More »