
Wisbourg, Germany based estate agent Knock dispatches his associate, Hutter, to Count Orlok’s castle in Transylvania as the Count wants to purchase an isolated house in Wisbourg. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Summer Heat (1987) Michie Gleason, Lori Singer, Anthony Edwards, Bruce Abbott, Drama

Feeling lonely and neglected by her overworked husband, Roxy, a Depression-era farm wife, is drawn into an ill-advised affair with Jack, their hired hand. Read More »
Washington Square (1997) Agnieszka Holland, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney, Maggie Smith, Drama, Romance

Set in 1870’s New York, a spinster heiress is courted by a much younger, penniless man, much to the chagrin of her over-protective father Read More »
Narayama bushikô / Ballad of Narayama (1958) Keisuke Kinoshita, Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yûko Mochizuki, Drama

In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy Read More »
Yuke yuke nidome no shojo / Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (1969) Kôji Wakamatsu, Michio Akiyama, Hiroshi Imaizumi, Mimi Kozakura, Drama

After being raped in an unknown rooftop, nineteen year-old girl Poppo meets a mysterious boy, and both share their sexual traumas and fears, with fatal consequences. Read More »
Three Secrets (1950) Robert Wise, Eleanor Parker, Patricia Neal, Ruth Roman, Drama

A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. Read More »
Some Came Running (1958) Vincente Minnelli, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Drama, Romance

In the post-war, the alcoholic and bitter veteran military and former writer Dave Hirsch returns from Chicago to his hometown Parkman, Indiana. Read More »
Return to Oz (1985) Walter Murch, Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

Dorothy Gale has recently come home to Kansas from the Land of Oz is now almost back to perfect health since the incident of the tornado, only she cannot get that wonderful place out of her head. Read More »
L’amante del demonio / Lucifera: Demonlover (1972) Paolo Lombardo, Edmund Purdom, Rosalba Neri, Robert Woods, Drama, Horror

Rosalba Neri (Sara Bay) plays a beautiful young woman who, while traveling with her two female friends, ends up staying the night in a huge castle – which, according to legend, is the Devil’s dwelling-place. Read More »
Le fate / The Queens (1966) Mauro Bolognini, Mario Monicelli, Monica Vitti, Enrico Maria Salerno, Claudia Cardinale, Comedy

Four unrelated short comedies by four different directors. “Queen Sabina”chronicles the sexual misadventures of a teenage girl on the road home. Read More »