
Jenny Lamour wants to succeed in music hall. Her husband and accompanist is Maurice Martineau, a nice but jealous guy. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Warning to Wantons (1949) Donald B. Wilson, Harold Warrender, Anne Vernon, David Tomlinson

Seventeen-year-old Renee slips away from her convent school, joins her fashionable mother Read More »
Holiday in Spain (1960) Jack Cardiff, Denholm Elliott, Peter Lorre, Beverly Bentley

A vacationing Englishman (Denholm Elliott) stumbles upon a plot to kill a young American tourist (Beverly Bentley) in Spain. Read More »
Gaudi Afternoon (2001) Susan Seidelman, Judy Davis, Marcia Gay Harden, Lili Taylor

Cassandra, a solitary writer in Barcelona (a US ex-pat) gets a call for help from a stranger Read More »
A Family Thing (1996) Richard Pearce, Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones, Michael Beach

Earl Pilcher, Jr., runs an equipment rental outfit in Arkansas, lives with his wife Read More »
Michel Strogoff (1926) Viktor Tourjansky, Ivan Mozzhukhin, Nathalie Kovanko, Acho Chakatouny

Things look bleak for Russia when the invading Tartars cut off all telecommunications between the border cities and the capital. Read More »
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky, Lars Rudolph, Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla

This story takes place in a small town on the Hungarian Plain. In a provincial town, which is surrounded with nothing else but frost. Read More »
Donne-moi tes yeux (1943) Sacha Guitry, Geneviève Guitry, Aimé Clariond

A renowned sculptor aged about fifty years, François Bressolles falls for the young Catherine Collet Read More »
The Escape (1939) Ricardo Cortez, Kane Richmond, Amanda Duff, June Gale

An embittered Louie Peronni (Edward Norris) returns from prison to find that his sister Read More »
Starstruck (1982) Gillian Armstrong, Joey Kennedy, Ross O’Donovan, Margo Lee

Young woman wants to become the next big singer with the help of her friends and despite the wishes of her working class family. Read More »