
Will Henderson is the new boy at the high school. He befriends outcast Melinda Grant, whose illegitimacy marks her and her unstable mother. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Chappaqua (1966) Conrad Rooks, Jean-Louis Barrault, William S. Burroughs

The bizarre hallucinations of a heroin addict in withdrawal provide the basis for this unstructured, autobiographical film by director Conrad Rooks. Read More »
Film Adventurer Karel Zeman (2015) Tomas Hodan, Tim Burton, Tony Dalton, Kamil Fila

A biographical film looking back at the life, work and significance of the genius of world cinema. Read More »
The Balloon Goes Up (1942) Redd Davis, Ethel Revnell, Ronald Shiner, Donald Peers

The Balloon Goes Up is a British amalgam of music hall vulgarities and radio one-liners.  Read More »
Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Alfred Hitchcock, Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey

Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten) visits his relatives in Santa Rosa. Read More »
Next of Kin (1982) Tony Williams, Jacki Kerin, John Jarratt, Alex Scott

In a rest home for elderly people, a daughter reads her mother’s diary. Read More »
The Petrified Forest (1973) Masahiro Shinoda, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Sayoko Ninomiya, Masako Yagi

Based on novel by Shintaro Ishihara, this is a human drama about the complex relationship of parent and child. Read More »
The Outsider (1939) Paul L. Stein, George Sanders, Mary Maguire, Barbara Blair

A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon – and falls in love with her in the process. Read More »
The Nutty Professor (1963) Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore

Nerd. Milquetoast. Klutz. These are just three of the many undesirable words that can be used to describe Professor Julius Kelp. Read More »
Images in a Convent (1979) Joe D’Amato, Paola Senatore, Marina Hedman, Paola Maiolini

Locked behind the walls of a convent are an order of beautiful nuns whose vows force them to forget the pleasures of sexual contact. Read More »