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Author Archives: rarefilm
Green Snake (1993) Hark Tsui, Maggie Cheung, Joey Wang, Wenzhuo Zhao

Two snakes reformed into two beauties. White Snake chose pedagogue Xian Xu as her husband and enjoyed human life, while Green Snake played around every day. Read More »
Blossoms in the Dust (1941) Mervyn LeRoy, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart

Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. Read More »
Sweet Little Lies (2010) Hitoshi Yazaki, Miki Nakatani, Nao Ômori, Jûichi Kobayashi

Underneath the veneer of orderly lives, frozen smiles and awkward averted glances, SWEET LITTLE LIES is a cold-as-steel clinical study of a couple. Read More »
Ringos Big Night (1966) Mario Maffei, William Berger, Adriana Ambesi, Eduardo Fajardo

Four masked men rob money from a stagecoach en route to a bank in Tombstone. The federal government vows to catch the culprits and recover the money. Read More »
Babaric Land (2013) Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi

Every era has its fascism. A film necessary for us at this time, over fascism and colonialism. Read More »
Pastor Hall (1940) Roy Boulting, Wilfrid Lawson, Nova Pilbeam, Seymour Hicks

This film is based on the true story of Pastor Martin Neimuller, who was sent to Dachau concentration camp for criticising the Nazi party. Read More »
The House on Carroll Street (1988) Peter Yates, Kelly McGillis, Jeff Daniels, Mandy Patinkin

Emily Crane is fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, and takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. Read More »
Swamp Thing (1982) Wes Craven, Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise

On the verge of a breakthrough in his quest to wipe out world hunger, altruistic botanist Dr. Alec Holland (Ray Wise) is placed Read More »
Color of Night (1994) Richard Rush, Bruce Willis, Jane March, Rubén Blades

A color-blind psychiatrist Bill Capa is stalked by an unknown killer after taking over his murdered friend’s therapy group Read More »