In 1911, as part of his massive undertaking, famed Northwest photographer Edward S. Curtis travelled to Vancouver Island, British Columbia, to visit the Kwakwaka’wakw. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Avanti! (1972) Billy Wilder, Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill
Baltimore industrialist Wendell Armbruster crosses paths with London shop girl Pamela Piggott when they come to Ischia to pick up the bodies of her mother and his father Read More »
Sins of Jezebel (1953) Reginald Le Borg, Paulette Goddard, George Nader, Eduard Franz
The aging Ahab, king of Israel, comes under the influence of a young and beautiful but scheming pagan woman named Jezebel and Read More »
Once a Thief (1935) George Pearson, John Stuart, Derek Gorst, Frederick Culley
A brilliant chemist’s plans to revolutionise the paint industry are put on hold when he is accused of theft. Read More »
Gun Law (1938) David Howard, George O’Brien, Rita Oehmen, Ray Whitley
Finding a man alone in the desert, Marshal Tom is relieved – of his horse, clothes and water. Read More »
Twenty Years Later (1984) Eduardo Coutinho, Tite de Lemos, Ferreira Gullar
Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. Read More »
The Idea of a Lake (2016) Milagros Mumenthaler, Juan Barberini, Rosario Bléfari, Carla Crespo
Inès, 35 years old, is a photographer. She is in an emotionally fragile phase and begins putting together a book of personal poems and photographs. Read More »
Operette (1940) Willi Forst, Maria Holst, Dora Komar
The first film of Willi Forst’s legendary Viennese trilogy is essentially a condensed history of the golden age of Viennese operetta mirrored in the fictive love story Read More »
Enchantment (1948) Irving Reis, David Niven, Teresa Wright, Evelyn Keyes
Uncle Rollo finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love, Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last days. Read More »
June Bride (1948) Bretaigne Windust, Bette Davis, Robert Montgomery, Fay Bainter
Foreign correspondent Carey Jackson is offered a job on Home Life, a “women’s” magazine; he accepts when he finds the editor is his old flame Linda Gilman. Read More »