
Small-town eccentric Throckmorton Gildersleeve (of radio fame) has a few problems: Judge Hooker continually questions Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Step Across the Border (1990) Nicolas Humbert, Werner Penzel, Jonas Mekas, Julia Judge, John Spacely

This film is a snapshot of the life of Fred Frith, an English-born multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improvisor. Read More »
Q – The Winged Serpent (1982) Larry Cohen, David Carradine, Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark

New York police are bemused by a spate of reports of a giant flying lizard that has been spotted around the rooftops of New York Read More »
Great Day (1945) Lance Comfort, Eric Portman, Flora Robson, Sheila Sim

In the English village of Denley, the Women’s Institute (a wartime program channeling village products to the troops) Read More »
Boys’ Night Out (1962) Michael Gordon, Kim Novak, James Garner, Tony Randall

Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. Read More »
Lucky Dragon No. 5 (1959) Kaneto Shindô, Jûkichi Uno, Nobuko Otowa, Harold Conway

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru (“Lucky Dragon No. 5”) sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. Read More »
Unfair World (2011) Filippos Tsitos, Makis Papadimitriou, Minas Hatzisavvas, Christos Stergioglou

Sotiris is a police interrogator in Athens. He has an obsession: he needs to be fair.  Read More »
Eat Your Bones (2014) Jean-Charles Hue, Frédéric Dorkel, Jason François, Michael Dauber

18 year old Jason Dorkel belongs to a community of gypsies. Read More »
Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road (2002) Bob Gale, James Marsden, Gary Oldman, Kurt Russell

Neal Oliver is a young artist, but his father doesn’t like his choice and wants him to go to Oxford. Read More »
The Tall Men (1955) Raoul Walsh, Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan

Two brothers, Ben and Clint, join a cattle drive from Texas to Montana. Read More »