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Author Archives: rarefilm
A Young Woman Named Xiao Yu (1995) Sylvia Chang

A Taiwanese comedy set in Lower Manhattan which chronicles the travails of two Taiwanese illegal aliens as they try to get a green card. Read More »
The Great Impersonation (1935) Alan Crosland, Edmund Lowe, Valerie Hobson, Wera Engels

Baron Leopold von Ragastein impersonates his noble lookalike Sir Everard Dominey Read More »
The Miniver Story (1950) H.C. Potter, Victor Saville, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak

The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together Read More »
Beloved Enemy (1936) H.C. Potter, Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Karen Morley

After World War I Irish rebels launch an uprising with the aim of creating an Irish republic Read More »
False Faces (1943) George Sherman, Stanley Ridges, William Henry, Rex Williams

A district attorney sets out to vindicate his son who’s been accused of murdering a nightclub singer. Read More »
John and Irene (1949) Asbjørn Andersen, Anker Sørensen, Bodil Kjer, Ebbe Rode, Ib Schønberg

This sombre drama qualifies to be a true film noir. The atmosphere is sinister and depressing, and the performances are resigned and tragic. Read More »
Fan-Fan the Tulip / Fanfan la tulipe (1952) Christian-Jaque, Gérard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida, Marcel Herrand

Fanfan is a handsome young peasant. He joins the army to escape a forced marriage Read More »
A Man Called Dagger (1968) Richard Rush, Paul Mantee, Terry Moore, Jan Murray

A wheelchair-bound mad scientist plots to revive the Third Reich. Secret agent Dick Dagger is assigned to stop him. Read More »
Abad va yek rooz / Life+1Day (2016) Saeed Roustayi, Peyman Moaadi, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Parinaz Izadyar

The graphic account of a poverty-stricken family living in Tehran through the days before the youngest daughter Read More »