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Author Archives: rarefilm
At Sea (2007) Peter B. Hutton, Documentary
A haunting meditation on human progress, both physical and metaphorical, At Sea charts a three-year passage from twenty-first-century ship building in South Korea Read More »
The Hour of 13 (1952) Harold French, Peter Lawford, Dawn Addams, Roland Culver, Crime, Mystery, Romance
Nicholas Revel (Peter Lawford) is a young man any dowager in London welcomes to her parties. Read More »
Pather Panchali (1955) Satyajit Ray, Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Subir Banerjee, Drama
The story of a young boy, Apu, and life in his small Indian village. Read More »
Apur Sansar / The World of Apu (1959) Satyajit Ray, Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty, Drama
Apu is a jobless former student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer. An old college friend talks him into a visit up-country to a village wedding. Read More »
Ladri di biciclette / Bicycle Thieves (1948) Vittorio De Sica, Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda, Drama
Ricci, an unemployed man in the depressed post-WWII economy of Italy, gets at last a good job – for which he needs a bike – hanging up posters. Read More »
The Midnight Story (1957) Joseph Pevney, Tony Curtis, Marisa Pavan, Gilbert Roland, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
Beloved priest Father Thomasino is murdered in a San Francisco alley, and the police have few clues. Read More »
Where Does It Hurt? (1972) Rod Amateau, Peter Sellers, Jo Ann Pflug, Rick Lenz, Comedy
A corrupt hospital administrator decides to get as much money as possible from the patients by any means necessary – lie, cheat or steal. Read More »
Wyatt Earp (1994) Lawrence Kasdan, Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama, Western
Wyatt Earp doesn’t get to go to war with his brothers, but when the rest of his family relocates to California, he begins a career in the Wild West. Read More »
Stars and Stripes Forever (1952) Henry Koster, Clifton Webb, Robert Wagner, Debra Paget, Biography, Comedy, Music
In the 1890s, Sgt. Major John Philip Sousa, leader of the Marine Corps Band, meets Private Willie Little Read More »