A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) Otto Preminger, Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Laurence Olivier
Ann Lake has recently settled in England with her daughter, Bunny. When she goes to retrieve her daughter after the girl’s first day at school Read More »
Barbara – Wild wie das Meer (1961) Frank Wisbar, Harriet Andersson, Maria Sebaldt, Carl Lange
Nicely done drama on the basis of the Jacobsen novel. Wisbar translates the novels’ mistery and sexual ambiguity entirely Read More »
24 Frames (2017) Abbas Kiarostami
What happens in the moments before and after a photograph is taken? 24 Frames answers this question and unites the two artistic languages Kiarostami dedicated his life to. Read More »
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) Ennio De Concini, Alec Guinness, Simon Ward, Adolfo Celi
A dramatization based on eye witness accounts of Hitler’s final days in an underground bunker, his military henchmen, and his stormy relationship with Eva Braun. Read More »
Moonlight on the Prairie (1935) D. Ross Lederman, Dick Foran, Smoke, Sheila Bromley
Ace returns to the town where he is suspected of murder. He quickly become involved in the scheme to keep Barbara Roberts from reaching her ranch. Read More »
Luv (1967) Clive Donner, Jack Lemmon, Peter Falk, Elaine May
Harry is a barely functional human. He meets an old friend who is having marital problems as Harry is about to leap off of a bridge. Read More »
The Magic Bow (1946) Bernard Knowles, Stewart Granger, Phyllis Calvert, Jean Kent
The dazzlingly handsome Stewart Granger is at least physically well cast as the charismatic 18th century violinist Paganini. Read More »
Bitter Victory (1957) Nicholas Ray, Richard Burton, Curd Jürgens, Ruth Roman
In North Africa during World War II, Major David Brand is assigned to lead a British commando raid into German-held Benghazi Read More »
The Two Orphans (1965) Riccardo Freda, Sophie Darès, Valeria Ciangottini, Mike Marshall
Two orphaned sisters are caught up in the turmoil of the French Revolution, encountering misery and love along the way. Read More »