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Author Archives: rarefilm
The Water Was So Clear AKA Gaki zoshi (1973) Yôichi Takabayashi, Yûtarô Ban, Akira Nitta

Romance, rape, tension, repression and death: these are the quintessential themes explored in this dialogue-free Japanese black-and-white movie. Read More »
A Long Goodbye / Dolgie provody (1971) Kira Muratova, Zinaida Sharko, Oleg Vladimirsky, Tatyana Mychko

A single woman has put all her efforts into raising her only son, Sasha. Read More »
The Washing Machine / Vortice mortale (1993) Ruggero Deodato, Philippe Caroit, Ilaria Borrelli, Katarzyna Figura

A police detective investigates the murder of a man found dismembered in a washing machine Read More »
Personal Problems (1980) Bill Gunn, Vertamae Grosvenor, Carey Barnes, Alan Beckles

A partly improvised story of a complicated marriage in the African-American community Read More »
Rhapsody in Blue (1945) Irving Rapper, Robert Alda, Joan Leslie, Alexis Smith

Composer George Gershwin is driven by his need to succeed. Unfortunately his drive destroys his romantic Read More »
Martin (1977) George A. Romero, John Amplas, Lincoln Maazel, Christine Forrest

George Romero does for vampires what he has already done to zombies – an intense and realistic treatment that follows Read More »
The Iceman Cometh (1973) John Frankenheimer, Lee Marvin, Fredric March, Robert Ryan

It’s 1912 and the patrons of ‘The Last Chance Saloon’ have gathered for their evening of whiskey Read More »
The Dupes AKA Al-makhdu’un (1972) Tewfik Saleh, Mohamed Kheir-Halouani, Abderrahman Alrahy, Bassan Lofti Abou-Ghazala

Set in Iraq (but shot in Syria), this is the story of three men who try to leave their impoverished and hopeless lives to get get work in Kuwait. Read More »
I Love You Again (1940) W.S. Van Dyke, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh

While alone on a cruise, the upstanding – and mean – teetotaler, Larry Wilson, receives a blow on the head Read More »