Chuck Berry opens the show and performs “Johnny B Goode” and his 1955 hit “Maybelline”. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Vice Squad (1931) John Cromwell, Paul Lukas, Kay Francis, Judith Wood
A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes. Read More »
The Benny Goodman Story (1956) Valentine Davies, Steve Allen, Donna Reed, Berta Gersten
Bio of swing band leader ‘Benny Goodman’ from age 10 (1919) to his landmark Carnegie Hall band concert in 1938. Read More »
The Strange Affair (1968) David Greene, Michael York, Jeremy Kemp, George A. Cooper
When rookie P.C. Strange falls for an under aged girl, he is unknowingly compromised by a pair of pornographers. Read More »
In the Realm of Sex (1977) Masaru Konuma, Natsuko Yashiro, Asami Ogawa, Hirotarô Honda
Naomi Tani and Yuko Katagiri appear as themselves in the film, making fun of their on-screen personas. Read More »
Leones (2012) Jazmín López, Julia Volpato, Pablo Sigal, Macarena del Corro
Taking a nap in the middle of the woods after walking by herself, young adult Isa awakens to meet up with fellow young adult friends Arturo, Felix, Niki and Sofi Read More »
Ladies Who Do (1963) C.M. Pennington-Richards, Peggy Mount, Robert Morley, Harry H. Corbett
The “Ladies Who Do” are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. Read More »
Mississippi Mermaid (1969) François Truffaut, Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Nelly Borgeaud
Louis Mahe is a tobacco planter at Reunion Island. He is waiting for Julie Roussel to marry him. Read More »
Knife Edge (2009) Anthony Hickox, Hugh Bonneville, Natalie Press, Matthieu Boujenah
A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son Read More »
The Sullivans (1944) Lloyd Bacon, Anne Baxter, Thomas Mitchell, Selena Royle
The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II Read More »