Father ploughs a supermarket with oxen, the plough ripping the tiles. A forest full of dead and Niagara falling onto a cathedral altar. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Night Train to Venice (1993) Carlo U. Quinterio, Hugh Grant, Tahnee Welch, Malcolm McDowell
The Orient Express, on it’s night trip from Munich to Venice, is full because of the beginning of the carnival in Venice. Read More »
The Long Duel (1967) Ken Annakin, Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews
Superintendent Stafford of the United Provinces Police, has his men arrest an entire tribe on vague allegations of poaching and theft in British India. Read More »
Rendezvous in July (1949) Jacques Becker, Daniel Gélin, Brigitte Auber, Nicole Courcel
Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians. Read More »
Appointment in Bray (1971) André Delvaux, Anna Karina, Mathieu Carrière, Roger Van Hool
In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war he studies piano in Paris. Read More »
Oi Klironomoi (1964) Giannis Dalianidis, Dinos Iliopoulos, Costas Hajihristos, Martha Karagianni
Three distant cousins, barber Panagiotis; unemployed Sotiris, who wants to open a club; and dancer Mary, are the heirs of a house of haute couture. Read More »
Letters from Marusia (1976) Miguel Littin, Gian Maria Volontè, Diana Bracho, Claudio Obregón
In the late 19th and early 20th century, working conditions in Chile are abysmal. Read More »
The Little Bather (1968) Robert Dhéry, Louis de Funès, Andréa Parisy, Franco Fabrizi
Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès Read More »
The Rough and the Smooth (1959) Robert Siodmak, Nadja Tiller, Tony Britton, William Bendix
As young archaeologist Mike Thompson prepares to marry Margaret Goreham, the daughter of a wealthy and influential publisher Read More »
The Pickle (1993) Paul Mazursky, Danny Aiello, Dyan Cannon, Clotilde Courau
Harry Stone (Danny Aiello), a formerly top notch director, has had three disastrous movies in a row. Read More »