
Bizet’s Carmen gets a modern adaptation. Seducting, provocating, sensual. All the ingredients for a perfect drama. With her charm, Karmen gets out of many situations. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
They Shall Have Music (1939) Archie Mayo, Jascha Heifetz, Joel McCrea, Andrea Leeds

A boy from the streets of New York finds music tickets to a Heifetz concert, which rekindles his earlier interest in the violin. Read More »
Security Risk (1954) Harold D. Schuster, John Ireland, Dorothy Malone, Keith Larsen

Sking at a Big Bear resort are Dr. Lanson, an atomic scientist, Ted Nolan, Donna Weeks and her unscrupulous sister, Peggy. Read More »
Panic in the City (1968) Eddie Davis, Howard Duff, Linda Cristal, Stephen McNally

When a man collapses on the street, he is brought to the hospital and when he was about to be x-rayed Read More »
Waiting for the Hearse AKA Esperando la carroza (1985) Alejandro Doria, Luis Brandoni, China Zorrilla, Antonio Gasalla

Mamá Cora (Antonio Gasalla) is about 80 years old and she has three sons and a daughter. Read More »
The French Line (1953) Lloyd Bacon, Jane Russell, Gilbert Roland, Arthur Hunnicutt

Texas heiress Mary ‘Mame’ Carson strikes oil twice in one day, and her wealth scares away her fiance Read More »
Accent on Love (1941) Ray McCarey, George Montgomery, Osa Massen, J. Carrol Naish

Wealthy young man takes a job as a WPA ditch digger and falls for an immigrant girl Read More »
One Shoe Makes It Murder (1982) William Hale, Robert Mitchum, Angie Dickinson, Mel Ferrer

A down-at-the-heels private detective is hired by a crime boss to find his missing wife. Read More »
Camel(s) AKA Nakta(dul) (2001) Ki-yong Park, Dae-yeon Lee, Myung-shin Park

An unremarkable man in his forties and a female acquaintance. They talk, eat, and though both are married elsewhere, have sex. Read More »
The Lonely Wife AKA Charulata (1964) Satyajit Ray, Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Shailen Mukherjee

Charu lives a lonely and idle life in 1870s India. Although her husband Bhupati devotes more time to his newspaper than to their marriage Read More »