A group of friends spend a weekend at a remote cabin, and one of them accidentally desecrates an Indian burial ground. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1955) George Sherman, Rory Calhoun, Shelley Winters, Gilbert Roland
Mexico, 1915. US bank robber Tom Bryan hopes to retire to Mexico Read More »
Mary Poppins (1964) Robert Stevenson, Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson
When Jane and Michael, the children of the wealthy and uptight Banks family Read More »
All That Jazz (1979) Bob Fosse, Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer
Joe Gideon is a Broadway director, choreographer and filmmaker Read More »
Gong Tau: An Oriental Black Magic (2007) Herman Yau, Mark Cheng, Maggie Siu, Suet Lam
Bearing the same Chinese-language title as the 1975 Shaw Brothers shocker Black Magic Read More »
Young Dr. Freud (1976) Axel Corti, Karlheinz Hackl, Guido Wieland, Sylvia Haider
The film probes deeply into the ways in which Freud’s own experiences Read More »
River’s Edge (1986) Tim Hunter, Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye
Based on the horrifying real-life murder of a young California girl, this “powerful portrait” (Newsweek) of deadly Read More »
Mr. Denning Drives North (1951) Anthony Kimmins, John Mills, Phyllis Calvert, Eileen Moore
When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter’s current boyfriend is a nasty character Read More »
Pete Kelly’s Blues (1955) Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O’Brien
In 1927 Kansas City Pete Kelly and his jazz band play nightly at a speakeasy. Read More »
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953) Roy Rowland, Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Hans Conried
The bane of adolescent Bart Collins’ existence is the piano lessons he is forced to take under the tutelage of Dr. Terwilliker Read More »