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Author Archives: rarefilm
The Promised Land AKA Ziemia obiecana (1975) Andrzej Wajda, Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn

At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles Read More »
Chad Hanna (1940) Henry King, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Linda Darnell

Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with Albany the star equestrian rider. Read More »
Don’t Go Near the Water (1957) Charles Walters, Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Earl Holliman

On a small island in the South Pacific, the Navy’s P.R. department is spending WWII without getting near a ship. Read More »
Eureka (1983) Nicolas Roeg, Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger Hauer

Arctic prospector Jack McCann, after fifteen years of solitary searching, becomes one of the world’s wealthiest men Read More »
Born to Be Loved (1959) Hugo Haas, Carol Morris, Barbara Jo Allen

A seamstress (Carol Morris) and a music teacher (Hugo Haas) play Cupid for each other, ending with a double wedding. Read More »
An Everlasting Piece (2000) Barry Levinson, Barry McEvoy, Brían F. O’Byrne, Anna Friel

Colm (Barry McEvoy) is a Catholic, and George (Brian O’Byrne) is a poetry-loving Protestant. Read More »
Sara (1997) Maciej Slesicki, Boguslaw Linda, Agnieszka Wlodarczyk, Cezary Pazura

Leon, the 40-year-old former soldier who is an alcoholic now, gets a job as a bodyguard. Read More »
Theirs Is the Glory (1946) Brian Desmond Hurst, Stanley Maxted, Thomas Scullion, Allan Wood

In 1944, British General Montgomery and his command were way north of the Allied line Read More »
A German Youth AKA Une jeunesse allemande (2015) Jean-Gabriel Périot, Harun Farocki, Philip Werner Sauber, Holger Meins

Film based on the rise of The Red Army Faction, German revolutionary terrorist group founded by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof. Read More »