
Mexican gunfighter Dave Robles outdraws the town’s outlaw-turned-sheriff and is invited to fill the dead man’s shoes. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Schoolgirl report 9 (1975) Walter Boos, Puppa Armbruster, Sandra Atia, Ulrich Beiger

Schoolgirl Report 9 revolves around two carloads of kids who’ve just left a drinking party, engage in a high-speed race Read More »
Three Young Texans (1954) Henry Levin, Mitzi Gaynor, Jeffrey Hunter, Keefe Brasselle

A western about a Texan who robs a train in an effort to prevent his father from committing the crime Read More »
White Feather (1955) Robert D. Webb, Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, John Lund

The story of the peace mission from the US cavalry to the Cheyenne Indians in Wyoming during the 1870s. Read More »
A Woman Crying in Spring (1933) Hiroshi Shimizu, Akiko Chihaya, Ryuko Fuji, Shizue Hyôdô

Described by David Bordwell as ‘probably the greatest revelation’ of the retrospective of Shochiku’s Read More »
Our Dancing Daughters (1928) Harry Beaumont, Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, Nils Asther

Diana is outwardly the hit of the party but inwardly virtuous and idealistic. Read More »
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) Charles Crichton, Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James

Holland, a shy retiring man, dreams of being rich and living the good life. Read More »
The Pleasure / Il piacere (1985) Joe D’Amato, Andrea Guzon, Gabriele Tinti, Marco Mattioli

Italy in the early 1930s. To the elderly aristocrat Gerard Villeneuve, all that is left of Leonora Read More »
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia / Melancholian 3 huonetta (2004) Pirjo Honkasalo, Pirkko Saisio

A searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict Read More »
Gran Casino (1947) Luis Buñuel, Libertad Lamarque, Jorge Negrete, Meche Barba

After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo (Jorge Negrete) assumes the business management. Read More »