John Hathaway is a professor of psychology at Digby College. His students are bored as he is with the students. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Joy of Living (1938) Tay Garnett, Irene Dunne, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Alice Brady
Broadway star Margaret Garrett has spent her whole life working to support her sponging relatives. Read More »
Benito Cereno (1969) Serge Roullet, Ruy Guerra, Georges Selmark, Tamour Diop
When Captain Amaso Delano approaches a three-masted ship in distress Read More »
Love from Paris / Monpti (1957) Helmut Käutner, Romy Schneider, Horst Buchholz, Mara Lane
A poor 22 y.o. Hungarian man who’s recently arrived in Paris meets a seemingly wealthy 17 y.o. Parisian girl. Read More »
Bright Road (1953) Gerald Mayer, Dorothy Dandridge, Philip Hepburn, Harry Belafonte
A young teacher helps a troubled student who’s fascinated by a caterpillar’s metamorphosis. Read More »
Porgy and Bess (1959) Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian, Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr.
In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina Read More »
Duchess Of Langeais (2007) Jacques Rivette, Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu, Bulle Ogier
In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. Read More »
The Doll / La poupée (1962) Jacques Baratier, Zbigniew Cybulski, Sonne Teal, Claudio Gora
An avant-garde political satire that takes place in a mythical country in South America. Read More »
A Warm December (1973) Sidney Poitier, Ester Anderson, Yvette Curtis
Dr. Matt Younger and his daughter arrive for a month-long visit to London Read More »
Dancing Mothers (1926) Herbert Brenon
Ethel Westcourt discovers that her husband is having an affair with another woman and that her daughter Read More »