“Essene” is about daily life in a Benedictine monastery and the resolution of conflict between personal needs Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Special Education AKA Specijalno vaspitanje (1977) Goran Markovic, Slavko Stimac, Bekim Fehmiu, Ljubisa Samardzic
Educator and those educated in a home for juvenile delinquents in the same test: approach, take a peek into his soul to become a man. Read More »
The Off Season (2004) James Felix McKenney, Christina Campanella, Don Wood, Angus Scrimm
A couple stay in a dingy motel in Maine to try and escape their hectic lives Read More »
Forged Passport (1939) John H. Auer, Paul Kelly, June Lang, Lyle Talbot
Dan Frazier is a U. S. Border Patrolman on the California-Mexico border whose hot temper Read More »
Killer: A Journal of Murder (1996) Tim Metcalfe, James Woods, Robert Sean Leonard, Ellen Greene
Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there, he is brutally beaten by a guard. Read More »
Wild Oranges (1924) King Vidor, Frank Mayo, Virginia Valli, Ford Sterling
Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Her grandfather fled there for political reasons. Read More »
Anna and the King of Siam (1946) John Cromwell, Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell
In 1862, young English widow Anna Owens accepts the job of teaching the royal children of Siam. Read More »
Libeled Lady (1936) Jack Conway, Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy
Warren Haggerty is the chief editor of the New York Evening Star. Read More »
Blue Night AKA Nuit bleue (2010) Ange Leccia, Cécile Cassel, François Vincentelli, Alexandre Leccia
Following a death, a young woman returns to her island of birth, Corsica. Read More »
Downpour AKA Ragbar (1972) Bahram Beizai, Parviz Fanizadeh, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Jamshid Layegh
A well educated and humble teacher arrives in a new city and at a new job in the pre-revolutionary Iran. Read More »