Dorothy Gale has recently come home to Kansas from the Land of Oz is now almost back to perfect health since the incident of the tornado, only she cannot get that wonderful place out of her head. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
L’amante del demonio / Lucifera: Demonlover (1972) Paolo Lombardo, Edmund Purdom, Rosalba Neri, Robert Woods, Drama, Horror
Rosalba Neri (Sara Bay) plays a beautiful young woman who, while traveling with her two female friends, ends up staying the night in a huge castle – which, according to legend, is the Devil’s dwelling-place. Read More »
Le fate / The Queens (1966) Mauro Bolognini, Mario Monicelli, Monica Vitti, Enrico Maria Salerno, Claudia Cardinale, Comedy
Four unrelated short comedies by four different directors. “Queen Sabina”chronicles the sexual misadventures of a teenage girl on the road home. Read More »
The Wheeler Dealers (1963) Arthur Hiller, Lee Remick, James Garner, Phil Harris, Comedy
Henry J. Tyroone leaves Texas where his oil wells are drying up and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. Read More »
Tsuma yo bara no yô ni / Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935) Mikio Naruse, Sachiko Chiba, Yuriko Hanabusa, Toshiko Itô, Drama
A young woman reaches maturity and yearns to know about her father. Her mother has poisoned her mind about the man who left her for another woman. Read More »
City That Never Sleeps (1953) John H. Auer, Gig Young, Mala Powers, William Talman, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, dissatisfied with his job and marriage, would like to run away with his stripper girlfriend Angel Face, but keeps getting cold feet. Read More »
Fear and Desire (1953) Stanley Kubrick, Frank Silvera, Kenneth Harp, Paul Mazursky, Drama, Thriller, War
A ficticious war in an unidentified country provides the setting for this drama. Four soldiers survive the crash-landing of their plane to find themselves in a forest six miles behind enemy lines. Read More »
Otome-gokoro – Sannin-shimai / Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts (1935) Mikio Naruse, Chikako Hosokawa, Masako Tsutsumi, Ryuko Umezono, Drama
Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in bars…
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The Coca-Cola Kid (1985) Dusan Makavejev, Eric Roberts, Greta Scacchi, Bill Kerr, Comedy, Drama
An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. Read More »
The Gaucho (1927) F. Richard Jones, Lupe Velez, Joan Barclay, Eve Southern, Adventure, Romance
A girl is saved by a miracle after she falls from a cliff in the Argentine Andes, and is blessed with healing powers. Read More »