A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The War at Home (1979) Glenn Silber, Barry Alexander Brown, Karleton Armstrong, Betty Boardman, Allen Ginsberg, Documentary, History, Music, War
Documentary film about the anti-war movement in the Madison, Wisconsin area during the time of the Vietnam War. Read More »
Das Geheimnis der roten Katze / The Secret of the Red Cat (1931) Erich Schönfelder, Rosa Valetti, Hans Junkermann, Margot Landa, Comedy, Crime
“The Red Cat” is a seedy dive. The rich American, Jefferson, who shows up there one day with his family and who recently became the proud owner of the famous Halifax emerald Read More »
Desk Set (1957) Walter Lang, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young, Comedy, Romance
The mysterious man hanging about at the research department of a big TV network proves to be engineer Richard Sumner Read More »
Vigil (1984) Vincent Ward, Penelope Stewart, Frank Whitten, Bill Kerr, Drama
Vincent Ward (director of What Dreams May Come, River Queen, The Navigator) tells the genre-defying, deeply personal Read More »
El seminarista / The Seminarist (1949) Roberto Rodríguez, Pedro Infante, Silvia Derbez, Fernando Soto, Comedy, Drama
Returning to his home town, seminarist Miguel is forced to trade the robes for a charro costume in order to solve several problems that appear in his way, including the female kind. Read More »
Édith et Marcel / Edith and Marcel (1983) Claude Lelouch, Evelyne Bouix, Jacques Villeret, Francis Huster, Biography, Drama, Romance
Before World War II, Edith Piaf and Marcel Cerdan were both on their way to becoming legends in their own lifetimes. Read More »
Divisione Folgore / Folgore Division (1954) Duilio Coletti, Fausto Tozzi, Ettore Manni, Monica Clay, War
During the Second World War, after a long training, a group of young paratroopers of the Folgore is parachuted into the desert of Libya. Read More »
Day of the Badman (1958) Harry Keller, Fred MacMurray, Joan Weldon, John Ericson, Western
The vicious Hayes clan amble into town on the day Judge Jim Scott is expected to sentence murderer Rudy Hayes to hang. Read More »
Buenos Aires, meine Geschichte / Images of the Absence (1998) German Kral, Beatriz Rossi, Rodolfo Kral, Emilia Mónaco, Documentary
A soulful, poetic, presentation of an autobiographical documentary by Argentinian filmmaker German Kral, who sets out to discover why his family, in his mind, never really was a family. Read More »