
The British are desperate to shorten the length of WW2 and propose a daring raid to smash Germany’s industrial heart. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Wild Reeds (1994) André Téchiné, Élodie Bouchez, Gaël Morel, Stéphane Rideau, Drama

In a village in the Southwest of France, 1962. Maite and Francois are 18 years old. Read More »
The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933) Archie Mayo, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young, Aline MacMahon, Romance, Drama

Prizefighter Jimmy Dolan accidentally kills a man at a party and escapes. Read More »
Backfire (1950) Vincent Sherman, Virginia Mayo, Gordon MacRae, Edmond O’Brien, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Bob Corey, recovering from a series of operations in a Veterans’ hospital, learns that his friend, Steve Connelly, with whom he intended to buy a ranch Read More »
Up, Down and Sideways (1993) Michael Cacoyannis, Irene Papas, Stratos Tzortzoglou, Panos Mihalopoulos, Comedy

A parody of the life in Athens of the 90ies where a widow and her son get entangled in crazy situations. Read More »
Zaza (1923) Allan Dwan, Gloria Swanson, H.B. Warner, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Romance, Drama

Zaza (Gloria Swanson) is an actress and the favorite at an theater in a small French town and she dreams of performing in Paris. Read More »
Goodbye Charlie (1964) Vincente Minnelli, Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds, Pat Boone, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Shot by a jealous husband, Charley falls out a porthole and is lost at sea only to find himself returned as an attractive blond woman. Read More »
Brief Crossing (2001) Catherine Breillat, Sarah Pratt, Gilles Guillain, Marc Filipi, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Desire for a subject that functions like a brief fling with no future as such, yet embellished by that very fact. Read More »
The Look of Silence (2014) Joshua Oppenheimer, Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan, Documentary, Biography, History

An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the “Communist” purge occurred in 1965. Read More »
The Prize (1963) Mark Robson, Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer, Crime, Drama, Mystery

For some reason, this year’s Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the young author Andrew Craig, who seems to be more interested in women and drinking than writing. Read More »