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Author Archives: rarefilm
Woman Wanted (1935) George B. Seitz, Maureen O’Sullivan, Joel McCrea, Lewis Stone

Ann Grey is wrongly convicted of murder. On her way to jail a car accident gives her the opportunity to escape. Read More »
Too Early, Too Late (1982) Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Bahgat Elnadi, Gérard Samaan

A sequence of shots of rural landscapes accompanied by readings of texts about the struggles of poor farmers. Read More »
Spy Sorge (2003) Masahiro Shinoda, Iain Glen, Masahiro Motoki, Kippei Shîna

A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outbreak of World War II Read More »
Smooth Talk (1985) Joyce Chopra, Treat Williams, Laura Dern, Mary Kay Place

Free-spirited fifteen-year-old Connie Wyatt may be too young to drive, but she’s already driving the boys crazy. Read More »
Panic in High School (1978) Gakuryû Ishii, Yukihiro Sawada, Shigeru Yamamoto, Atsuko Asano, Miyoko Akaza

A high school student rallies his classmates into rebelling violently Read More »
My Little Loves (1974) Jean Eustache, Martin Loeb, Jacqueline Dufranne, Jacques Romain

A study of minor events in the adolescence of a boy growing up in small towns. Read More »
The Last Days of Disco (1998) Whit Stillman, Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Chris Eigeman

The Last Days of Disco, from director Whit Stillman, is a cleverly comic look at the early 1980s Manhattan party scene Read More »
Meatballs (1979) Ivan Reitman, Bill Murray, Harvey Atkin, Kate Lynch

Summer Camp highjinks centered around a camp counselor with a wacky sense of humor. Read More »
The Last Judgement (1961) Vittorio De Sica, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Elli Davis, Fernandel

A mighty and mysterious voice echoes in the sky of Naples: it announces the start of the Last Judgement, at six in the evening. Read More »