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Author Archives: rarefilm
Stand and Deliver (1988) Ramón Menéndez, Edward James Olmos, Estelle Harris, Mark Phelan
Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a Hispanic neighbourhood. Read More »
Ordinary Heroes (1999) Ann Hui, Kang-sheng Lee, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Kwan-Ho Tse
Ordinary Heroes is a 1999 Cantonese-language film directed by Ann Hui. Read More »
China Is Near (1967) Marco Bellocchio, Glauco Mauri, Elda Tattoli, Paolo Graziosi
A pair of working class lovers – a secretary and an accountant, scheme to marry into the rich landed gentry. Read More »
Male Hunt (1964) Édouard Molinaro, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Claude Brialy, Françoise Dorléac
Fernand, a groom-to-be who is dissuaded from stepping up to the altar by his two friends after they terrify him with their personal marriage horror stories. Read More »
The Coward (1915) Reginald Barker, Thomas H. Ince, Frank Keenan, Charles Ray, Gertrude Claire
Confederate soldier Frank Winslow is terrified of the war and eventually runs away from battle. Read More »
Cal (1984) Pat O’Connor, Helen Mirren, John Lynch, Donal McCann
Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella Read More »
Convicts 4 (1962) Millard Kaufman, Ben Gazzara, Stuart Whitman, Ray Walston
A semi-fictionalized version of John Resko’s incarceration is presented. Read More »
Foxhole in Cairo (1960) John Llewellyn Moxey, James Robertson Justice, Adrian Hoven, Niall MacGinnis
In 1942, Rommel halts his victorious Afrika Korps and sends German agent John Eppler and radio operator Sandy to Cairo. Read More »
Father of the Bride (1950) Vincente Minnelli, Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor
When beautiful Kay Banks (Elizabeth Taylor) announces her engagement to Buckley Dunstan (Don Taylor) Read More »