After a life of emotional and professional upsets, Alex finds himself headwaiter in a chic Parisian restaurant. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Signer’s Suitcase / Signers Koffer – Unterwegs mit Roman Signer (1995) Peter Liechti, Roman Signer, Christoph M. Ohrt
SIGNERS KOFFER is a kind of road movie across Europa. Read More »
Three Seats for the 26th / Trois places pour le 26 (1988) Jacques Demy, Yves Montand, Mathilda May, Patrick Fierry
A pseudo-documentary on the life of Yves Montand, who plays himself, in this tribute to his long career. Read More »
Cold Comfort Farm (1995) John Schlesinger, Eileen Atkins, Kate Beckinsale, Sheila Burrell
In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19 Read More »
Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You (1971) Tai Katô, Junko Fuji, Kôji Tsuruta, Katsutoshi Akiyama
The seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu Read More »
The Case of the Morituri Divisions / L’affaire des divisions Morituri (1985) F.J. Ossang, Gina Lola Benzina, Philippe Sfez, Lionel Tua
This counter cultural epic follows the quest for survival fought by a collective of punk-youths Read More »
Pacific Heights (1990) John Schlesinger, Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, Michael Keaton
San Franciscans Drake Goodman and Patty Palmer are taking their relationship Read More »
Sierra Stranger (1957) Lee Sholem, Howard Duff, Gloria McGehee, Dick Foran
After pennyless miner Jess Collins saves Sonny Grover from two men he calls claim jumpers, he heads of the town of Colton. Read More »
The Rainmakers (1935) Fred Guiol, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee
Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick “Billy”) to relieve a terrible dry spell Read More »
Witness Out of Hell / Die Zeugin aus der Hölle (1967) Zivorad ‘Zika’ Mitrovic, Irene Papas, Daniel Gélin, Heinz Drache
Leah Weiss, a Polish Jew, was first forced into prostitution at Auschwitz. Read More »