Bressane’s first color film, shot in the home of the artist Elyseu Visconti. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Nuan (2003) Jianqi Huo, Xiaodong Guo, Teruyuki Kagawa, Jia Li
Like Huo’s Postmen in the Mountains, Nuan is a rural drama. The film follows Lin Jinghe, a young man who Read More »
Winter Soldier (1972) Rusty Sachs, Joe Bangert, Scott Shimabukuro
For three days in 1971, former US soldiers who were in Vietnam testify in Detroit about their war experiences. Read More »
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny
This movie follows the life of a young German woman, married to a soldier in the waning days of WWII. Read More »
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake
Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer — arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. Read More »
Private Eye (2009) Dae-min Park, Jung-min Hwang, Deok-Hwan Ryu, Ji-won Uhm
The story takes place in occupied Korea at the start of the 20th century Read More »
Obszön – Der Fall Peter Herzl (1981) Hans-Christof Stenzel, Volker Spengler, Lydia Kreibohm, Karina Fallenstein
Peter Herzl, social worker and Left sympathizer from Wuppertal, West Germany, is assaulted and robbed on the way back from Yugoslavia to his home country. Read More »
Handphone (2009) Han-min Kim, Yong-woo Park, Tae-woong Eom, Sol-mi Park
Talent manager Seung-min sees Yoon Jin Ah, a rising actress, as his one last hope to turn his life around. Read More »
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935) Busby Berkeley, Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart
In a luxury hotel stage director Nicoleff stages a show to get the money to pay his bills. Read More »
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) J. Lee Thompson, Roddy McDowall, Don Murray, Ricardo Montalban
Cornelius and Zira’s son Caesar leads apes to revolution in this installment of the apes saga. Read More »