
Life’s flotsam and jetsam turn up at late 1930’s Hollywoodland’s door, once more, in this insightful tale of wannabes and desperadoes. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Dixie Dynamite (1976) Lee Frost, Warren Oates, Christopher George, Jane Anne Johnstone

A moonshiner has been given protection by the local sheriff. Read More »
Princess Fragrance (1987) Ann Hui, Nuo Ai, Shichang Da, Hachier

Princess Fragrance is a 1987 Hong Kong film based on Louis Cha’s novel The Book and the Sword. Read More »
Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting (1969) Mark Robson, Carol White, Paul Burke, Mala Powers

A mentally disturbed man stalks a woman who had once aborted the child he had fathered. Read More »
Breakout (1959) Peter Graham Scott, Lee Patterson, Hazel Court, William Lucas

A government official arranges prison breaks as a sideline, but the police steps in and his gang is caught. Read More »
Young Thugs: Innocent Blood (1997) Takashi Miike, Takeshi Caesar, Seiji Chihara, Noriko Eguchi

This is a story of rough kids trying to find their way in the world, a world of violence Read More »
The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982) Peter Greenaway, Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne-Louise Lambert

Mr. Neville, a cocksure young artist, is contracted by Mrs. Herbert, the wife of a wealthy landowner Read More »
Prudence and the Pill (1968) Fielder Cook, Ronald Neame, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Robert Coote

Prudence is on the pill; so is her sister-in-law, but someone has been swapping aspirin for their pills. Read More »
The New Age (1994) Michael Tolkin, Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Patrick Bauchau

Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to their lives. Read More »
The Tormentors (1971) David L. Hewitt, James Craig, Chris Noel, Anthony Eisley

A wild gang of bikers who shamelessly idolize the Nazis, brutalizes anyone or anything that stands in their way. Read More »