
Light-hearted, old-style romance about a farm-hand who arranges to buy a pair of mules from his employer. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Valerie (1957) Gerd Oswald, Sterling Hayden, Anita Ekberg, Anthony Steel

John Garth (Sterling Hayden) is tried for critically wounding his wife Valerie (Anita Ekberg) Read More »
Macario (1960) Roberto Gavaldón, Ignacio López Tarso, Pina Pellicer, Enrique Lucero

Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. Read More »
The Man to Kill AKA Covjek koga treba ubiti (1979) Veljko Bulajic, Zvonimir Crnko, Vladimir Popovic, Charles Millot

After the murder of the Russian Emperor Peter III, who was succeeded by Empress Catherine Read More »
Blue Summer (1973) Chuck Vincent, Davey Jones, Bo White, Lilly Bi Peep

Teenagers pack a van full of beer and go on the road in search of sexual adventures. Read More »
‘Round Midnight (1986) Bertrand Tavernier, Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Gabrielle Haker

In ‘Round Midnight, real-life jazz legend Dexter Gordon brilliantly portrays the fictional tenor sax player Dale Turner Read More »
Adventure in Kigan Castle / Kiganjô no bôken (1966) Senkichi Taniguchi, Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Mihashi, Makoto Satô

Liberated from a slave auction, Osami joins with priest Ensai on a quest to find and deliver relics of the Buddha to Osami’s brother Read More »
Night of the Pencils AKA La noche de los lápices (1986) Héctor Olivera, Alejo García Pintos, Vita Escardó, Pablo Novak

This films tells the true story of seven teenagers who agitated for reduced student bus fares under two different regimes in Argentina, with tragic results. Read More »
Der Kulterer (1974) Vojtech Jasný, Helmut Qualtinger, Andreas Altmann, Harry Hornisch

Vojtech Jasnys film of the same name Thomas Bernhard story from 1962, the gritty chronicle of a “damaged life”. Read More »
Theodor Hierneis oder Wie man ehem. Hofkoch wird (1972) Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Walter Sedlmayr

In 1882, at the age of 14, Theodor Hierneis entered the court of King Ludwig II of Bavaria Read More »