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Author Archives: rarefilm
The Cameraman (1928) Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin

After becoming infatuated with a pretty office worker for MGM Newsreels Read More »
Nightcap (2000) Claude Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis

In Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Read More »
Knockout (1941) William Clemens, Arthur Kennedy, Olympe Bradna, Virginia Field

Johnny Rocket (Arthur Kennedy) needs to fight one more match to have enough money to get married to Angela Read More »
The Horse of Pride (1980) Claude Chabrol, Jacques Dufilho, Bernadette Le Saché, François Cluzet

In early twentieth-century Brittany, two peasants marry, have a son, and live in traditional Breton ways: three generations under one roof Read More »
Grass: A Nations Battle for Life (1925) Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Marguerite Harrison

The real-life struggles of the Bakhtiari tribe of Southern Persia (Iran) to migrate with 50,000 people Read More »
The World in His Arms (1952) Raoul Walsh, Gregory Peck, Ann Blyth, Anthony Quinn

Roistering sea captain Jonathan Clark, who poaches seal pelts from Russian Alaska, meets and woos Russian countess Marina in 1850 San Francisco. Read More »
The Fugitive (1947) John Ford, Emilio Fernández, Henry Fonda, Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz

Based of the Graham Greene novel about a revolutionary priest in Central America. Read More »
Battles Without Honor and Humanity 4: Police Tactics (1974) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Akira Kobayashi, Tatsuo Umemiya

Conflicts between Hirono’s family and Yamamori’s family (and their allies) are made more tense by the ambitious underlings and the police’s efforts to impose a crackdown on the gangs. Read More »
Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Deadly Fight In Hiroshima (1973) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Shin’ichi Chiba, Meiko Kaji

A young criminal joins a yakuza family to kill the gangsters who beat him up Read More »