
Arlo Guthrie’s song is converted into a motion picture. Arlo goes to see Alice for Thanksgivng and as a favor takes her trash to the dump. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Love at Twenty AKA L’amour à vingt ans (1962) Shintarô Ishihara, Marcel Ophüls, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Patrick Auffay

“Love at Twenty” unites five directors from around the world to present their different perspectives Read More »
Erika’s Hot Summer (1971) Gary Graver, Erica Gavin, Walt Phillips, Merci Montello

Sleazeball photographer Steve is busy taking pictures of beautiful young women, bedding them and then dumping them. Read More »
Where Adam Stood (1976) Brian Gibson, Alan Badel, Max Harris, Ronald Hines

“Where Adam Stood” is “based on” the 1907 autobiography, “Father and Son”, by Christian fundamentalist Read More »
Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950) Lee Sholem, Lex Barker, Vanessa Brown, Robert Alda

The Lionians are a tribe dying of a mysterious disease. Their Chief decides to kidnap Jane and Lola, a half-breed nurse Read More »
The Black Orchid (1958) Martin Ritt, Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Peter Mark Richman

After mobsters murder her husband, Rose Bianco works long hours making artificial flowers, to support herself and her son. Read More »
My Own Breathing AKA Sumgyeol – Najeun moksori 3 (1999) Young-Joo Byun

Some Korean women were forced into sexual slavery by Japan during World War II. Read More »
Habitual Sadness AKA Najeun moksori 2 (1997) Young-Joo Byun

Habitual Sadness (1997) was initiated at the request of the women, who asked that BYEON film the last days of a group member Read More »
Dangerous Paradise (1930) William A. Wellman, Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, Warner Oland

A young man named Heyst, soured on civilization, lives alone on a remote island “somewhere east of Suez”. Read More »
No One Writes to the Colonel AKA El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (1999) Arturo Ripstein, Fernando Lujan, Marisa Paredes, Salma Hayek

Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. Read More »