
Gene, a clever but seriously deranged computer-game designer, has been left by his wife Eva. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Wild Berries AKA Hebi ichigo (2003) Miwa Nishikawa, Hiroyuki Miyasako, Miho Tsumiki, Sei Hiraizumi

A portrait of an ordinary family that turns unstable when their frivolous son Shuji returns home after a long absence. Read More »
Chinese Coffee (2000) Al Pacino, Jerry Orbach, Susan Floyd

When aging, unsuccessful Greenwich Village writer Harry Levine is fired from his job as restaurant doorman Read More »
Boccaccio ’70 (1962) Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider

Four directors tell tales of Eros fit for a 1970s Decameron. Working-class lovers, Renzo and Luciana, marry but must hide Read More »
Under the Domim Tree AKA Etz Hadomim Tafus (1994) Eli Cohen, Gila Almagor, Juliano Mer-Khamis, Uri Avrahami

Aviya is the only Israeli-born girl among her schoolmates (the rest are Holocaust survivors from various European countries) Read More »
Blue Water, White Death (1971) Peter Gimbel, James Lipscomb, Tom Chapin, Phil Clarkson, Stuart Cody

Peter Gimbel and a team of photographers set out on an expedition to find and Film Read More »
Woman Obsessed (1959) Henry Hathaway, Susan Hayward, Stephen Boyd, Barbara Nichols

After her husband dies in a fire, a woman is left to tend for her young son and the family farm on her own. Read More »
Seventeen (1983) Joel DeMott, Jeff Kreines

In their final year at Muncie’s Southside High School, a group of seniors hurtles toward maturity with a combination of joy Read More »
How to Cook Your Life (2007) Doris Dörrie, Edward Espe Brown

Doris Dörrie’s camera greets Edward Espe Brown when he arrives in Australia to give a class on cooking, Zen, and meditation. Read More »
Nightmare Detective AKA Akumu tantei (2006) Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Ryûhei Matsuda, Hitomi, Masanobu Andô

Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares. Read More »