The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman’s prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases, unwanted pregnancies, and estranged lovers. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Nogiku no gotoki kimi nariki / She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955) Keisuke Kinoshita, Noriko Arita, Chishû Ryû, Haruko Sugimura, Drama, Romance
An old man, being rowed along a river, sees a field of daisies (or Wild Chrysanthemums, as they are described in the title, or starworts, as they are referred to in the subtitles), and thinks back to when he was fifteen. Read More »
Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy (1966) Kenji Misumi, Raizô Ichikawa, Shigeru Amachi, Shiho Fujimura, Action, Drama
Nemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to avenge the death of their sensei Read More »
Haruka naru yama no yobigoe / A Distant Cry from Spring (1980) Yôji Yamada, Ken Takakura, Chieko Baishô, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Drama
A mysterious stranger appears at the door of a farmhouse on a stormy night and asks for shelter. The young widow who owns the farm puts him up in the barn. Read More »
J’ai pas sommeil / I Can’t Sleep (1994) Claire Denis, Yekaterina Golubeva, Richard Courcet, Vincent Dupont, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Beautiful Daiga has emigrated from Lithuania to Paris and is looking for a place to stay and work. Theo is a struggling musician, and his brother Camille – a transvestite dancer. Read More »
Never Weaken (1921) Fred C. Newmeyer, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Roy Brooks, Short, Comedy, Thriller
Our hero (Lloyd) is infatuated with a girl in the next office. In order to drum up business for her boss, an osteopath, he gets an actor friend to pretend injuries that the doctor “cures”, thereby building a reputation. Read More »
In Prison Awaiting Trial / Detenuto in attesa di giudizio (1971) Nanni Loy, Alberto Sordi, Elga Andersen, Andrea Aureli, Comedy, Drama
Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian land surveyor who has lived in Sweden for the past seven years, goes to his native country with his Swedish wife and children for his holidays. Read More »
The Art of Love (1965) Norman Jewison, James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, Elke Sommer, Comedy
Painter Paul Sloan feels he’s a failure, since nobody will buy his paintings. His art dealer informs him, that the works of an artist become much more wanted and valuable if the artist is dead. Read More »
Stolen Life (1962) Aarne Tarkas, Mäkelä, Rauha Rentola, Rose-Marie Precht, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
A government official decides to steal a $25-million payroll and then fake his own death. However, in the process he is forced to kill an innocent bystander. Read More »
Duffer (1971) Joseph Despins, William Dumaresq, Kit Gleave, Erna May, Drama
An intense and bizarre study of obsession that is by turns lyrical and disconcerting, Duffer tells the deranged story of a teenage boy torn between the womanly charms of a kindly prostitute, and the relentless, sadistic attentions of an older man.
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