Undercover cop Nico Giraldi travels to New York and Las Vegas to find a crooked cop who gave his squadron back in Italy a bad name. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Monster AKA Il mostro (1994) Roberto Benigni, Michel Blanc, Nicoletta Braschi
A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect Read More »
Ponette (1996) Jacques Doillon, Victoire Thivisol, Delphine Schiltz, Matiaz Bureau Caton
An extremely captivating movie on how a little girl copes with her mother’s death. Read More »
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (2011) Marie Losier, Genesis P-Orridge, Lady Jaye Breyer P’Orridge, Big Boy Breyer P’Orridge
An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist Read More »
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) Mark Robson, Ingrid Bergman, Robert Donat, Curd Jürgens
All her life Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Read More »
O Cangaceiro (1953) Lima Barreto, Alberto Ruschel, Marisa Prado, Milton Ribeiro
Brazilian movie inspired by American westerns (but losing none of its cultural integrity) about Cangaceiro (bandit) Teodoro Read More »
The Philadelphia Experiment (1984) Stewart Raffill, Michael Paré, Nancy Allen, Eric Christmas
In 1943, the United States tests an anti-radar system to make the U.S. Navy ships invisible to the enemy. Read More »
The McConnell Story (1955) Gordon Douglas, Alan Ladd, June Allyson, James Whitmore
Mac’s plans to settle down and raise a family are upset by the Korean War. He goes as a fighter pilot and returns a hero, the first triple ace of the war. Read More »
Surviving Life (Theory and Practice) AKA Prezít svuj zivot (teorie a praxe) (2010) Jan Svankmajer, Václav Helsus, Klára Issová, Zuzana Krónerová
The film uses a mix of cut-out animation from photographs and live-action segments Read More »
Night’s Tightrope AKA Shôjo (2016) Yukiko Mishima, Tsubasa Honda, Gorô Inagaki, Shizuka Ishibashi
Based on the novel Shojo by Kanae Minato, watch for the story of high school student Yuki who plans to see a dead body. Read More »