Filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty presents a docufictional account of a family living in a Samoan village in the early 1920s. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Golden Girl (1951) Lloyd Bacon, Mitzi Gaynor, Dale Robertson, Dennis Day
Against the background of the Civil War, sixteen-year-old song-and-dance artiste Lotta Crabtree Read More »
German Fried Movie (1992) Uwe Boll, Frank Lustig, Jo Betzing, Jürg Löw, Alexander Leuschen
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Kôji Tsuruta
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan’s greatest Samurai, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Read More »
The Cassandra Crossing (1976) George P. Cosmatos, Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen
Terrorists have planted a deadly virus on a transcontinental train. Read More »
Big Bullet (1996) Benny Chan, Ching Wan Lau, Jordan Chan, Ruco Chan
After assaulting his tactical commander during a raid gone sour Read More »
Adua and Her Friends (1960) Antonio Pietrangeli, Simone Signoret, Marcello Mastroianni, Sandra Milo
When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past. Read More »
The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun (1983) Vera Chytilová, Leos Sucharípa, Libuse Pospísilová, Vlasta Spicnerová
The strains of Debussy’s “Afternoon of a Faun” waft through this amusing comedy about an aging lecher’s ever-optimistic pursuit of the fair sex, for fair sex, or better. Read More »
Blame Freud (2014) Paolo Genovese, Marco Giallini, Vittoria Puccini, Anna Foglietta
Francesco Taramelli is a psychoanalyst who is dealing with three patients going through various hurdles Read More »
Flame and Women (1967) Yoshishige Yoshida, Mariko Okada, Isao Kimura, Mayumi Ogawa
A sterile man arranges for his disapproving wife to receive artificial insemination Read More »