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Author Archives: rarefilm
Satan’s School for Girls (1973) David Lowell Rich, Pamela Franklin, Kate Jackson, Lloyd Bochner

Elizabeth Sayers enrolls at Salem’s School for Girls, her dead sister’s alma mater, in Salem, Mass. Read More »
Blood Brothers / I guappi (1974) Pasquale Squitieri, Claudia Cardinale, Franco Nero, Fabio Testi

In this period piece set in Italy, Nicola Bellizzi dreams of becoming a lawyer. Read More »
Just Don’t Think I’ll Cry / Denk bloß nicht, ich heule (1965) Frank Vogel, Peter Reusse, Anne-Kathrein Kretzschmar, Hans Hardt-Hardtloff

High-school senior Peter considers the adults around him to be hypocritical Read More »
O.J. Simpson: Juice on the Loose (1974) George A. Romero, O.J. Simpson, Marvin Goux, John McKay

An independently produced sports documentary on the career of O.J. Simpson, (32#) the upcoming running back for the Buffalo Bills football team. Read More »
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983) Nagisa Ôshima, David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto

In 1942 British soldier Jack Celliers comes to a Japanese prison camp. The camp is run by Yonoi, who has a firm belief in discipline, honor and glory. Read More »
Osmanthus Alley / Gui hua xiang (1987) Kun-Hou Chen, Hsiao-Fen Lu, Hsiu-Ling Lin, Simon Yam

Ti Hung’s parents die when she is twelve. When she is sixteen, she determines to change her fate, swearing to forget about the poverty. Read More »
Matto regiert / Madness Rules (1947) Leopold Lindtberg, Heinrich Gretler, Heinz Woester, Friedrich Braun

If any one man is responsible for the rejuvenation of the postwar Swiss film industry Read More »
The Death of Mario Ricci (1983) Claude Goretta, Gian Maria Volontè, Magali Noël, Heinz Bennent

A TV journalist and his assistant come to interview a sociologist whose books deal with world hunger Read More »
In Harm’s Way (1965) Otto Preminger, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal

On patrol the afternoon of December 7th controlling a cruiser Captain Torrie receives word about the assault on Pearl Harbor. Read More »