
Clara, a 65 year old widow and retired music critic, was born into a wealthy and traditional family in Recife, Brazil. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Man Without a Star (1955) King Vidor, Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor

Dempsey Rae, a cowboy with no clear aim in life, winds up working on a spread with a hard lady owner just arrived from the East. Read More »
Keep Your Powder Dry (1945) Edward Buzzell, Lana Turner, Laraine Day, Susan Peters

A disparate group of women try to adjust to their new lives after enlisting in the Women’s Army Corps. Read More »
Stavisky… (1974) Alain Resnais, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, François Périer

Irrestisible charm and talent helps Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler Read More »
Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001) Claude Lanzmann, Yehuda Lerner, Francine Kaufmann

A gripping account of the prisoners uprising at the Nazi extermination camp of Sobibor in 1943. Read More »
Le guignolo (1980) Georges Lautner, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Mirella D’Angelo, Michel Galabru

After the failure of his recent criminal exploits, international con artist Alexandre Dupré sets off for Venice to try to dupe some Japanese business men Read More »
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child (1988) Claude Lelouch, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Richard Anconina, Lio

A foundling, raised in the circus, Sam Lion becomes a businessman after a trapeze accident. Read More »
Lady Liberty (1971) Mario Monicelli, Sophia Loren, William Devane, Gigi Proietti

Maddalena and Michele fall in love in Italy in the 1960s, while working at a meat factory in Emilia stormed by the workers’ protest Read More »
Kim (1950) Victor Saville, Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas

Kim, a young boy living on his own on the streets of India, is actually the son of a British officer. Read More »
Vincent (1987) Paul Cox, John Hurt, Marika Rivera, Gabriella Trsek

This documentary, on the life of artist Vincent Van Gogh, is told through his letters to his brother Theo, from 1872 until his tragic death. Read More »