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Author Archives: rarefilm
Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1981) Lamont Johnson, Scott Glenn, Diane Lane, Burt Lancaster

In nineteenth century Oklahoma, two teen girls, fans of stories about outlaws, are on a quest to meet and join up with them. Read More »
A Bill of Divorcement (1932) George Cukor, John Barrymore, Katharine Hepburn, Billie Burke

After spending fifteen years in an asylum, Hilary Fairfield escapes from the institution after regaining his sanity. Read More »
River Beat (1954) Guy Green, Phyllis Kirk, John Bentley, Robert Ayres

A London police inspector is patrolling the river looking for smugglers, when he becomes attracted to a woman working as a ship’s radio operator. Read More »
My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (2002) Johnnie To, Ka-Fai Wai, Sammi Cheng, Ching Wan Lau, Tian-Lin Wang

A car accident gives a spoiled, troubled young woman the ability to see ghosts, including one of a former classmate. Read More »
High School Ghosthustlers (1995) Yoshinari Nishikôri, Mitsuko Abe, Gô Awazu, Glover

The GhostHustlers are three beautiful female students Kyoko, Mayu and Emi who fight evil spirits at Onin High School. Read More »
Decameron Nights (1953) Hugo Fregonese, Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Godfrey Tearle

The main story combines bits of Giovanni Boccaccio’s own life (maybe and maybe not) with three of his most fabulous stories of love. Read More »
Stranger in the House (1967) Pierre Rouve, James Mason, Geraldine Chaplin, Bobby Darin

John Sawyer, once an eminent barrister, has slid into a life of cynicism and drunkenness since his wife left him. Read More »
Lipstikka (2011) Jonathan Sagall, Clara Khoury, Nataly Attiya, Daniel Caltagirone

Two women reunite in London, where they go over the details of a life-changing event which occurred when they were teenagers in Jerusalem. Read More »
The Fencing Master (1962) Shunkai Mizuho, Raizô Ichikawa, Ganjirô Nakamura, Kinuyo Tanaka

The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Read More »