Jim Larrabie and Bob Gordon, two reporters, are sent to prison on bogus charges after exposing the corrupt practices of J.W. Moett and Dudley. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Deep in the Woods (2010) Benoît Jacquot, Isild Le Besco, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Jérôme Kircher
In 1865, Timothee, a wanderer, arrives in a village in southern France pretending he is deaf and mute. Read More »
Ozploitation Trailer Explosion (2014)
In the late 70s and early 80s, films like MY BRILLIANT CAREER and BREAKER MORANT put Australia’s New Wave on the map. Read More »
Applause (1929) Rouben Mamoulian, Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr.
This early example of the “backstage” musical genre tells the story of Kitty Darling Read More »
A World Apart (1988) Chris Menges, Barbara Hershey, David Suchet, Jodhi May
A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents Read More »
Broadway Musketeers (1938) John Farrow, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Sheridan, Marie Wilson
Broadway Musketeers is a remake of the 1932 Warner Bros. drama Three on a Match, with numerous concessions made to the now more stringent Hollywood censors. Read More »
The Birth of a Nation (1915) D.W. Griffith, Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall
Two brothers, Phil and Ted Stoneman, visit their friends in Piedmont, South Carolina: the family Cameron. Read More »
What Comes Around (1985) Jerry Reed, Bo Hopkins, Barry Corbin
Joe Hawkins is not in good spirits. A long time drug-abuser and alcoholic, he sobers up with help from his brother Tom. Read More »
Ice Cold in Alex (1958) J. Lee Thompson, John Mills, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms
A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. Read More »
This Modern Age (1931) Nick Grinde, Joan Crawford, Pauline Frederick, Neil Hamilton
Valentine Winters goes to Paris to meet the divorced mother she has never known. Read More »