Righteous district attorney Joseph Foster’s main goal in life is to rid his city of the gangsters infesting it. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Reconversion (2012) Thom Andersen
Reconversion portrays seventeen buildings and projects by Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto Moura, accompanied by his own writings. Read More »
The Red Tent (1969) Mikhail Kalatozov, Sean Connery, Peter Finch, Mario Adorf
The commander of a failed 1928 Arctic airship expedition is remembering the events of the “Italia” airship flight, crash and subsequent rescue efforts. Read More »
Dr. Crippen (1963) Robert Lynn, Donald Pleasence, Samantha Eggar, Coral Browne
A dramatization of Britain’s notorious Crippen murder case. American-born Hawley Harvey Crippen (nicknamed “Peter”), a mild-mannered Read More »
Here Come the Marines (1952) William Beaudine, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Hanley Stafford
The boys get drafted into the Marines. On their first day in basic training, their commanding officer discovers that Sach’s dad is an old war buddy of his Read More »
Blue Nude (1978) Luigi Scattini, Gerardo Amato, Susan McBain, Giacomo Rossi Stuart
Rocco is a young Italian living in New York. He is desperate for a job and willing to do anything, including being in porn movies, just like his friend Lilly. Read More »
Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) Joseph Pevney, James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer
Loose biography of actor Lon Chaney. Growing up with deaf parents, he learns what it is like to be different. Read More »
Suffering Bastards (1989) Bernard McWilliams, John C. McGinley, David Warshofsky, Eric Bogosian
Buddy Johnson recounts the story of his life to a lovely woman who comes into his bar: how he and his brother Al Read More »
The Serpent (1973) Henri Verneuil, Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde
Vlassov (Yul Brynner) is a Soviet spy. In France, Vlassov defects. He is whisked to the U.S.A., where Allan Davies (Henry Fonda) takes over the case. Read More »
The Burning Court (1962) Julien Duvivier, Nadja Tiller, Jean-Claude Brialy, Perrette Pradier
A group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. Read More »