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Author Archives: rarefilm
This is the Army (1943) Michael Curtiz, George Murphy, Joan Leslie, George Tobias

In WWI dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Read More »
Zero Motivation (2014) Talya Lavie, Dana Ivgy, Nelly Tagar, Shani Klein

A zany, dark, & comedic portrait of everyday life for a unit of young, female Israeli soldiers. Read More »
Cargo of Love (1968) Anton Holden, Sheila Britt, Gloria Irizarry, Tony Pascal

A young woman answering an ad for a traveling companion winds up drugged, kidnapped and in the clutches of a white slavery ring. Read More »
The Brother from Another Planet (1984) John Sayles, Joe Morton, Daryl Edwards, Rosanna Carter

The Brother is an alien who has crash-landed on Earth, in New York City. Read More »
Poison (1991) Todd Haynes, Edith Meeks, Larry Maxwell, Susan Norman

Three intercut stories about outsiders, sex and violence. In “Hero,” Richie, at age 7, kills his father and flies away. Read More »
The Crowning Experience (1960) Marion Clayton Anderson, Rickard Tegström, Muriel Smith, Ann Buckles, Louis Byles

Inspired by the accomplishments of Mary McCleod Bethune, who made and sold so many sweet potato pies that Read More »
Vampiresas 1930 (1962) Jesús Franco, Mikaela, Antonio Ozores, Lina Morgan

As the era of silent films finds itself at a close, four down-and-out silent film actors and musicians struggle to find work. Read More »
Sins of Rome (1953) Riccardo Freda, Massimo Girotti, Ludmilla Tchérina, Yves Vincent

74 B.C. Somewhere in the Roman Empire, Spartacus, a young officer, is condemned to be a slave because he hit a superior. Read More »
Murder by the Book (1987) Lawrence Gordon Clark, Peggy Ashcroft, Ian Holm, Richard Wilson

Agatha Christie’s agents propose that it’s time for her to publish the manuscript she wrote thirty-five years earlier Read More »