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Author Archives: rarefilm
Nos années folles (2017) André Téchiné, Pierre Deladonchamps, Céline Sallette, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet

The true story of Paul who, after two years at the front, is mutilated and deserted. Read More »
Heidi (1937) Allan Dwan, Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt, Arthur Treacher

Eight-year-old Heidi is orphaned and her selfish maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with Adolph Kramer Read More »
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946) Willis Goldbeck, Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Sara Haden

Poor Andy, all he wants to do is get to town and continue to woo his girl and ask her hand in marriage. Read More »
My Tehran for Sale (2009) Granaz Moussavi, Marzieh Vafamehr, Amir Chegini, Asha Mehrabi

Marzieh is a young female actress living in Tehran. The authorities ban her theatre work and, like all young people in Iran Read More »
My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985) Aleksey German, Andrei Boltnev, Nina Ruslanova, Andrey Mironov

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin’s Great Purge. Read More »
The Moon God (1988) Jonas Cornell, Tomas Laustiola, Agneta Ekmanner, Per Myrberg

A serial killer who slaughters campers is on the loose in Sweden. Read More »
The Phantom Thief (1946) D. Ross Lederman, Chester Morris, Jeff Donnell, Richard Lane

Boston Blackie, in the 11th film of the Columbia series, indulges in some wit-trading with a squirmy spiritualist who deals in blackmail, murder and the occult. Read More »
Reeseville (2003) Christian Otjen, Majandra Delfino, Brad Hunt, Angela Featherstone

Reeseville is a character driven murder mystery, set in the rural midwest. Read More »
The Trigger Effect (1996) David Koepp, Kyle MacLachlan, Elisabeth Shue, Dermot Mulroney

How tenuous is man’s hold on civilization when survival becomes an issue? Read More »