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Author Archives: rarefilm
The Sixth Part of the World AKA Shestaya chast mira (1926) Dziga Vertov
“Sixth Part of the World” was the size of Soviet Union of the time. Many peoples of many customs composed it. Read More »
The Verdict (1964) David Eady, Cec Linder, Zena Marshall, Nigel Davenport
A racketeer, deported back from America, faces murder charge and hatches jury rigging plot with accomplice. Cross and double-cross follow. Read More »
Women Are Like That (1938) Stanley Logan, Kay Francis, Pat O’Brien, Ralph Forbes
A typical Francis vehicle of the time was Women are Like That, in which the star is cast as businesswoman Claire King Read More »
Ciao! Manhattan (1972) John Palmer, David Weisman, Edie Sedgwick, Wesley Hayes, Isabel Jewell
Ciao! Manhattan is the semi-biographical tale of 1960s counterculture icon Edie Sedgwick. Read More »
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 »