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Author Archives: rarefilm
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 »
Sin Town (1942) Ray Enright, Constance Bennett, Broderick Crawford, Patric Knowles

Conman Dude McNair and his girl arrive in Carsin Town to find they have been sold worthless oil wells. Read More »
Weak Spot AKA La faille (1975) Peter Fleischmann, Michel Piccoli, Ugo Tognazzi, Mario Adorf

Based on a novel by Antonis Samarakis, Peter Fleischmann’s La faille also known as Weak Spot stars Ugo Tognazzi as Georgis Read More »
Coroner Creek (1948) Ray Enright, Randolph Scott, Marguerite Chapman, George Macready

With the help of Kate Hardison (Marguerite Chapman), the Coroner Creek hotel keeper, Chris Danning (Randolph Scott) Read More »
Road (1987) Alan Clarke, Neil Dudgeon, Jane Horrocks, Andrew Wilde

Your tour guide for the night is one drunken man called Scullery. Read More »
Mondo (1995) Tony Gatlif, Ovidiu Balan, Philippe Petit, Pierrette Fesch

A fable unfolds. One summer day, a boy of about ten appears on the streets of Nice – no family, no possessions, no schooling, but with a brilliant smile. Read More »
A Tale of Two Cities (1935) Jack Conway, Robert Z. Leonard, Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver

Alas, an aristocrat and a barrister on the same plateau. Read More »
Second Thoughts (1983) Lawrence Turman, Lucie Arnaz, Craig Wasson, Ken Howard

Lawyer Amy finds herself courted by two very different men: her client, a roguish street musician named Will, and her old boyfriend John Michael. Read More »