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Author Archives: rarefilm
Bundle of Joy (1956) Norman Taurog, Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Adolphe Menjou

Kitschy musical remake of “Bachelor Mother”. Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store Read More »
Call of the Wild (1935) William A. Wellman, Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Jack Oakie

Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. Read More »
We the Poor AKA Nosotros, los pobres (1948) Ismael Rodríguez, Pedro Infante, Evita Muñoz ‘Chachita’, Carmen Montejo

Two kids take a book from a trash can. They begin to read the story of a poor neighborhood in Mexico City. Read More »
Happy Anniversary (1959) David Miller, David Niven, Mitzi Gaynor, Carl Reiner

Living in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of New York City, lawyer Chris Walters and his wife Read More »
Blackmail (1939) H.C. Potter, Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Hussey, Gene Lockhart

John Ingram of Oklahoma has a loving family, loves his work fighting oil fires, and is good at it. Read More »
Sibérie (2011) Bruno Dumont, Joana Preiss

A couple on a trip with two small cameras to make a movie. On board the Trans-Siberian, they exchange about love, desire, cinema. Read More »
Australiens (2014) Joe Bauer, Rita Artmann, Tamara McLaughlin, Lawrence Silver

At the age of 10, Australian-born Andi Gibson had what she describes as a close encounter with a flying saucer. Read More »
Dreamscape (1984) Joseph Ruben, Dennis Quaid, Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer

A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people’s dreams, with some mechanical help. Read More »
Waru (2006) Takashi Miike, Shô Aikawa, Keiko Matsuzaka, Ryo Ishibashi

A member of the Yakuza is imprisoned for violent behaviour including fighting another group of thugs. Read More »