
A cavalcade of English life from New Year’s Eve 1899 until 1933 seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Constant Nymph (1943) Edmund Goulding, Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Brenda Marshall

Fourteen-year-old Tessa is hopelessly in love with handsome composer Lewis Dodd, a family friend. Lewis adores Tessa, but has never shown any romantic feelings toward her. Read More »
Bell, Book and Candle (1958) Richard Quine, James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon

Gillian Holroyd is just your average, modern-day, witch, living in a New York apartment with her Siamese familiar, Pyewacket. Read More »
Pour le Mérite (1938) Karl Ritter, Paul Hartmann, Herbert A.E. Böhme, Albert Hehn

This Nazi propaganda film chronicles the rise of the German Air Force (“Luftwaffe”) from World War I until Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. Read More »
Knight Without Armour (1937) Jacques Feyder, Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Irene Vanbrugh

Because he can pass as a Russian, A.J. Fothergill is recruited to spy on the revolutionary movement in Russia in 1913. Read More »
Advance to the Rear (1964) George Marshall, Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, Melvyn Douglas

A Union army outfit of misfits and rejects is sent to the Western territory. Southern spies try to figure out what they’re up to. Read More »
Goodbye, Columbus (1969) Larry Peerce, Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw, Jack Klugman

A Jewish man and a Jewish woman meet and while attracted to each other, find that their worlds are very different. Read More »
Captive Women (1952) Stuart Gilmore, Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Gloria Saunders

In a post-apocalyptic New York City, three tribes of mutants (the Norms, the Mutates and the Upriver people) battle each other to survive. Read More »
Penrod and Sam (1931) William Beaudine, Leon Janney, Frank Coghlan Jr., Cameo the Dog

Two mischievous schoolboys, Penrod and Sam, are constantly in trouble at school. They start their own club, the In-Or-In club, of which they are the only members. Read More »
Hothead (1979) Jean-Jacques Annaud, Patrick Dewaere, France Dougnac, Dorothée Jemma

François Perrin plays football at the AS Trincamp. During a training session, he gets into a fight with Bertier, the team’s star, and is ordered off the field. Read More »