A group of US Navy weathermen taking measurements in the Gobi desert in World War II Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Mrs. Dalloway (1997) Marleen Gorris, Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone, Michael Kitchen
London, summer 1923. Clarissa, MP Richard Dalloway’s wife, sets out on a beautiful morning Read More »
Tales Of The Dumpster Kid (1971) Edgar Reitz, Ula Stöckl, Kristine de Loup, Bruno Bendel, Alf Brustellin
The Dumpster Kid is an artistic creation: in every story society forces her to learn something. Read More »
Fortini/Cani (1976) Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Franco Fortini, Luciana Nissim, Adriano Aprà
The film is a sort of presentation of Franco Fortini’s book ‘I Cani del Sinai’. Read More »
Unashamed (1932) Harry Beaumont, Helen Twelvetrees, Robert Young, Lewis Stone
Dick will do anything to protect his sister Jean as would her father. Read More »
You’ll Find Out (1940) David Butler, Kay Kyser, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff
Kay Kyser and his orchestra are hired to entertain at the birthday party of a young heiress at a creepy old mansion Read More »
Monsieur Beaucaire (1946) George Marshall, Bob Hope, Joan Caulfield, Patric Knowles
Beaucaire is a barber for the Royal French court who becomes a real “royal pain” for the king. Read More »
Cotton Mary (1999) Ismail Merchant, Greta Scacchi, Madhur Jaffrey, James Wilby
1954, the Malabar Coast. British and Anglo-Indian identities blur when an English-woman with a neglectful husband births a sickly baby. Read More »
Zouzou (1934) Marc Allégret, Josephine Baker, Jean Gabin, Pierre Larquey
As children, Zouzou and Jean are paired in a traveling circus as twins: she’s dark, he’s light. Read More »
The 300 Spartans (1962) Rudolph Maté, Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson, Diane Baker
Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers Read More »