A stranger – a fugitive, a sought-after – walks through a deserted landscape a late rainy day in August 1947. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The London Connection (1979) Robert Clouse, Jeffrey Byron, Larry Cedar, Roy Kinnear
Family spy adventure sees secret agent Luther Starling hoping to have a vacation in England to visit his friend Roger. Read More »
The Blue Bird (1976) George Cukor, Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Cicely Tyson, Ava Gardner
A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy Berylune. Read More »
Likely Consequence (1992) Edward Yang, Tai-song Chen, Zianqi Chen, David Wang
Filmed performance of Yang’s one-act two-character play which shifts back Read More »
Memoria (2021) Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tilda Swinton, Elkin Díaz, Jeanne Balibar
From the extraordinary mind of Palme D’or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul Read More »
The Challenge (1982) John Frankenheimer, Scott Glenn, Toshirô Mifune, Donna Kei Benz
Rick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan Read More »
The Shanghai Story (1954) Frank Lloyd, Ruth Roman, Edmond O’Brien, Richard Jaeckel
In post-WW2 Shanghai, expatriate Westerners are detained in the Waldorf Hotel until the Communists Read More »
Brown Bread Sandwiches (1989) Carlo Liconti, Giancarlo Giannini, Lina Sastri, Kim Cattrall
A 1957 period piece about Italian immigrants in Toronto. Read More »
Century (1993) Stephen Poliakoff, Charles Dance, Clive Owen, Miranda Richardson
Paul Reisner, a young doctor, becomes a researcher in a prestigious medical institute. Read More »
Breaking at the Edge (2013) Predrag Antonijevic, Rebecca Da Costa, Milo Ventimiglia, Andie MacDowell
A pregnant woman fears for her unborn child’s life if she doesn’t avenge a supernatural entity. Read More »