Ciao! Manhattan is the semi-biographical tale of 1960s counterculture icon Edie Sedgwick. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Quantum Love AKA Une rencontre (2014) Lisa Azuelos, Sophie Marceau, François Cluzet
A family man’s encounter with a beautiful woman develops into a mutual fascination. Read More »
Kairat (1992) Darezhan Omirbayev, Samat Beysenbin, Baljan Bisembekova, Indira Jeksembaeva
Living in Almaty, Kazakhstan, a young man is preparing to become a bus conductor. Read More »
Debut AKA Nachalo AKA The Beginning (1970) Gleb Panfilov, Inna Churikova, Valentina Telichkina, Tatyana Stepanova
A film-in-film story set in a provincial town in Russia. Pasha (Churikova) is an amateur actress who plays a witch at a local club Read More »
Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park (1978) Gordon Hessler, Peter Criss, Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons
The tale of rock band KISS and their efforts to thwart a diabolical plan by mad scientist Abner Devereaux. Read More »
The Enemy General (1960) George Sherman, Van Johnson, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Dany Carrel
An American OSS agent and the French underground attempt to rescue a Nazi general Read More »
The Oklahoma Kid (1939) Lloyd Bacon, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane
McCord’s gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land Read More »
Submarine Seahawk (1958) Spencer Gordon Bennet, John Bentley, Brett Halsey, Wayne Heffley
For his first command in the Pacific war a by-the-book officer is ordered to take his submarine Read More »
The Dresser (1983) Peter Yates, Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand, the dresser, Norman (Sir Tom Courtenay) Read More »
Storm Over the Pacific AKA Hawai Middowei daikaikûsen: Taiheiyô no arashi (1960) Shûe Matsubayashi, Hugo Grimaldi, Yôsuke Natsuki, Toshirô Mifune, Kôji Tsuruta
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan’s Naval Air Force. Read More »