In 1836, General Santa Anna and the Mexican Army is sweeping across Texas. To be able to stop him, General Sam Houston needs time to get his main force into shape. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
So Red the Rose (1935) King Vidor, Margaret Sullavan, Walter Connolly, Randolph Scott, Drama
SO RED THE ROSE is King Vidor’s quietly affecting Civil War romance, starring Margaret Sullavan as a Southern aristocrat, the mistress of a Southern plantation Read More »
Ordeal by Innocence (1984) Desmond Davis, Alan Birkinshaw, Donald Sutherland, Faye Dunaway, Christopher Plummer, Mystery, Thriller
Paleontologist Dr. Arthur Calgary visits the Argyle family to give them an address book that belongs to Jack Argyle. Read More »
The Second Arrival (1998) Kevin Tenney, Patrick Muldoon, Jane Sibbett, Michael Sarrazin, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After Zane Ziminski is found dead five people received envelopes with details of an alien invasion. Read More »
Leptirica / The Butterfly (1973) Djordje Kadijevic, Mirjana Nikolic, Petar Bozovic, Slobodan ‘Cica’ Perovic, Drama, Horror
Story follows young man Strahinja who is in love with a local beauty Radojka, but their relationship has an obstacle – her father Zivan, who considers Strahinja as nothing but a loser. Read More »
Indul a bakterház / The Stationmaster Meets His Match (1980) Sándor Mihályfy, Imre Olvasztó, Róbert Koltai, Teri Horváth, Comedy
The story of Bendegúz, the teenage boy who never succeeds in anything and about whom everybody’s first though is “I wish you had been hanged when you were born!” drops out of school and becomes a cowboy. Read More »
The Rosary Murders (1987) Fred Walton, Donald Sutherland, Charles Durning, Belinda Bauer, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Life in the Catholic Church of the Holy Redeemer in Detroit is upset by a series of killings whose victims are all priests and nuns. Read More »
Saraba Rabauru / Farewell Rabaul (1954) Ishirô Honda, Ryô Ikebe, Mariko Okada, Rentarô Mikuni, War, Romance
This is a film about a Naval Air Corps Director who hates the war. Director Honda uses this film to ask the question “What is war?”, showing the human bonds between Japan and America Read More »
MURDER and murder (1996) Yvonne Rainer, Joanna Merlin, Kathleen Chalfant, Catherine Kellner, Drama, Comedy
Mildred and Doris are two middle-aged white women, from very different backgrounds, who become lovers and set up house together. Read More »
Journeys from Berlin/1971 (1980) Yvonne Rainer, Annette Michelson, Vito Acconci, Cynthia Beatt, Drama, Experimental
Journeys From Berlin/1971 (1980), her epic meditation on psychoanalysis, the Baader-Meinhof, feminism, and pre-revolutionary Russia. Read More »