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Author Archives: rarefilm
The Child (1977) Robert Voskanian, Laurel Barnett, Rosalie Cole, Frank Janson, Horror
A newly hired house-keeper in a secluded area is alarmed to discover that her boss’s eleven-year-old daughter is using her supernatural powers Read More »
The Safety of Objects (2001) Rose Troche, Glenn Close, Dermot Mulroney, Mary Kay Place, Drama
A series of overlapping stories about four suburban families dealing with different maladies. Read More »
Taxi, roulotte et corrida / Taxi, Trailer and Corrida (1958) André Hunebelle, Louis de Funès, Raymond Bussières, Annette Poivre, Comedy
Louis is a hard working but crazy Paris taxi driver. Today he’s finishing work for the summer holiday: his family is going to Spain with his sister-in-law and her family Read More »
Mujô / This Transient Life (1970) Akio Jissôji, Kotobuki Hananomoto, Akiji Kobayashi, Eiji Okada, Drama
Set around a remote Buddhist monastery, it features Masao, a young son of a rich merchant who doesn’t want to follow his father into business or go to college Read More »
Huan le ren jian / Change the World (1959) Tian Wu, Dezhang Bai, Qi Guo, Yiwen Guo, Drama
Wei uncle from the off with her daughter Shirley flee from famine came in the northeast, under the rule of the puppet work in the coalmine. Read More »
Be My Guest (1965) Lance Comfort, David Hemmings, Steve Marriott, John Pike, Drama, Music
A family inherits a seaside hotel and has trouble filling it up until their son’s rock group begins packing ’em in. Read More »
There Goes My Heart (1938) Norman Z. McLeod, Fredric March, Virginia Bruce, Patsy Kelly, Comedy, Romance
Seeing her chance, 25-year-old heiress (Virginia Bruce) flees from her over-protective grandfather with none of her fortune in her purse. Read More »
Strictly Dynamite (1934) Elliott Nugent, Jimmy Durante, Lupe Velez, Norman Foster, Comedy, Musical
When timid aspiring poet Nick Montgomery loses his book reviewing job, his wife Sylvia convinces him to write gags for radio comedian Moxie Slaight. Read More »
Professor Beware (1938) Elliott Nugent, Harold Lloyd, Phyllis Welch, William Frawley, Comedy
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert (Lloyd), accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. Read More »