
Quiet Tarkovskian drama about an old man who lives alone on a deserted island which the Soviet fighter planes use for nighttime target practicing. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
For One More Hour with You AKA Un’ora sola ti vorrei (2002) Alina Marazzi, Luisa Marazzi Hoepli

Italian documentary filmmaker Alina Marazzi tries to piece together the life of her mother Read More »
Sleepaway Camp (1983) Robert Hiltzik, Felissa Rose, Jonathan Tiersten, Karen Fields

After a horrible boating accident kills her family, Angela, a shy and sullen young girl Read More »
The Plant (1995) Jonathan Lewis, Valentine Pelka, Tamio Okada, Yasuko Okada

Strange tale of an alien who moves to a leafy London suburb. Read More »
The Himmler Project AKA Das Himmler Projekt (2000) Romuald Karmakar, Manfred Zapatka

Experimental feature, in which the actor Manfred Zapatka reads Read More »
The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973) Bud Yorkin, Ryan O’Neal, Jacqueline Bisset, Warren Oates

A computer programmer decides to become a thief. Read More »
A Woman’s Life AKA Onna no rekishi (1963) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Akira Takarada, Tsutomu Yamazaki

Nobuko (Hideko Takamine) is a gentle Japanese woman who endures several ordeals during her adult life in this somber, sentimental drama. Read More »
The Disappearance of Finbar (1996) Sue Clayton, Luke Griffin, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Sean Lawlor

Finbar Flynn is a working-class boy living in a grim concrete jungle in Dublin. Read More »
Attack of the Virgin Mummies (2004) Daryl Carstensen, Andrew Schrom, Hanna Harper, Noname Jane, Nikki Love

When a lunatic murders the three daughters of the Pharaoh, he faces an awful death. Read More »
One Frightened Night (1935) Christy Cabanne, Charley Grapewin, Mary Carlisle, Arthur Hohl

An eccentric millionaire, unable to locate his only granddaughter Read More »