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Author Archives: rarefilm
Gore Orphanage (2015) Emily Lapisardi, Maria Olsen, Bill Townsend, Emma Smith

When 9 year old Nellie’s entire family dies, she is taken to Gore Orphanage. Read More »
Forever (2006) Heddy Honigmann, Yoshino Kimura, Bertrand Beyern, Camille Solari

Père-Lachaise – one of the world’s most famous and beautiful cemeteries – is the final resting-place of a gifted group of artists from all eras and corners of the world. Read More »
The Fever (2004) Carlo Gabriel Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Cameron D’Angelo, Kiera D’Angelo

Tells the story of a woman who gets involved in politics with no previous contact with world events. Read More »
White Banners (1938) Edmund Goulding, Claude Rains, Fay Bainter, Jackie Cooper

A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Read More »
All the Souls… Except the Dead AKA Tutti defunti… tranne i morti (1977) Pupi Avati, Gianni Cavina, Francesca Marciano, Carlo Delle Piane

Dante must sell books on the legends related to the noble families of Emilia-Romagna to the descendants of the families themselves. Read More »
The Cool World (1963) Shirley Clarke, Rony Clanton, Carl Lee, Yolanda Rodríguez

Filmmaker Shirley Clarke (“The Connection”) directs this powerful, stark semi-documentary look at the horrors of Harlem ghetto Read More »
The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver’s Wife (1991) Nick Broomfield, Eugene Terre’Blanche, J.P. Meyer

From the award-winning Director Nick Broomfield, The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver’s Wife portrays the sinister Read More »
Desert Commandos AKA Attentato ai tre grandi (1967) Umberto Lenzi, Ken Clark, Horst Frank, Jeanne Valérie

German commandos are dropped behind enemy lines in the Sahara Desert Read More »
The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936) Lothar Mendes, Alexander Korda, Roland Young, Ralph Richardson, Edward Chapman

George McWhirter Fotheringay, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them. Read More »