An American cavalry brigade is sent to occupy a small Filipino village in 1902 and quell guerilla resistance in the surrounding jungle. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
L’assassino / The Assassin (1961) Elio Petri, Marcello Mastroianni, Micheline Presle, Cristina Gaioni
The antiquarian Alfredo Martelli is brought to a police precinct without any explanation and interviewed by Inspector Palumbo. Read More »
Botany Bay (1952) John Farrow, Alan Ladd, James Mason, Patricia Medina
In 1787 prisoners from London’s Newgate Gaol are to be shipped to New South Wales. Read More »
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2014) Julie Taymor, Kathryn Hunter, David Harewood, Tina Benko
Filmed version of Julie Taymor’s live theatrical adaptation of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy about young lovers and magical sprites. Read More »
Reach for the Sky (1956) Lewis Gilbert, Kenneth More, Muriel Pavlow, Lyndon Brook
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 Read More »
Telefon (1977) Don Siegel, Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence
The KGB is looking for one of their people, a man named Dalchimsky because he has stolen something important but Read More »
Sprawa Gorgonowej / The Gorgon Case (1977) Janusz Majewski, Ewa Dalkowska, Aleksander Bardini, Mariusz Dmochowski
One of the most talked-about trials in 1930s Polish press. Read More »
Wodzirej AKA Top Dog (1978) Feliks Falk, Jerzy Stuhr, Slawa Kwasniewska, Wiktor Sadecki
An ironic look at a climber who decides to do anything Read More »
Je vous trouve très beau / You Are So Beautiful (2005) Isabelle Mergault, Michel Blanc, Medeea Marinescu, Wladimir Yordanoff
When farmer Aymé Pigrenet loses his wife, he is not exactly overwhelmed by sorrow Read More »
Boykott (1930) Robert Land, Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur, Lil Dagover, Rolf von Goth
A film about the pupils of a posh Berlin gymnasium in their final term (Ober-Primaner = pupils of the Upper First) Read More »