
Thirty-something George Roundy is a Beverly Hills hairdresser, who spends as much time sleeping with his female clients as he does doing their hair. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Wild Thing (1987) Max Reid, Robert Knepper, Kathleen Quinlan, Robert Davi

A child witnesses drug dealers murder his parents. He escapes and grows up wild in the city’s slums. Read More »
Suburban Cabaret (1935) Werner Hochbaum, Mathias Wieman, Luise Ullrich, Oskar Sima

Luise Ullrich and Mathias Wieman are the lovers and want to marry but he has to join the soldiers Read More »
Mother Dao, the Turtlelike (1995) Vincent Monnikendam

In a span of ninety minutes the film aims to show how the Netherlands administered its colony as a colonial enterprise and what the relations were like at the time. Read More »
Isn’t Life Wonderful (1924) D.W. Griffith, Carol Dempster

The story follows a Polish professor and his family who have become refugees in the aftermath of World War I. Read More »
Cynara (1932) King Vidor, Ronald Colman, Kay Francis, Phyllis Barry

London barrister’s marriage is under strain after his affair with a shop-girl who is out to have him. Told in flashback. Read More »
The Plough and the Stars (1936) John Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Barry Fitzgerald

A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army. Read More »
Search for Paradise (1957) Otto Lang, James S. Parker, Lowell Thomas, Christopher Young

“Join Lowell Thomas and follow in the footsteps of Marco Polo” in this new, digital restoration of SEARCH FOR PARADISE Read More »
The Downfall of Osen (1935) Kenji Mizoguchi, Isuzu Yamada, Daijirô Natsukawa, Mitsusaburô Ramon

In Tokyo, Osen is the servant girl of an unscrupulous antiques dealer, Kumazawa, who takes in the penniless Sokichi Hata. Read More »
Fingers (1978) James Toback, Harvey Keitel, Tisa Farrow, Jim Brown

Keitel plays the lead in this schizophrenic movie in which he is continually pulled by the two conflicting sides of his personality Read More »