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Author Archives: rarefilm
The Beggars / Les mendiants (1987) Benoît Jacquot

A gang of adults traffic illegally. A gang of children play at being traffickers Read More »
Tina Goes Shopping (1999) Penny Woolcock, Dylan Fielding

The first film in the Tina trilogy, using the actual inhabitants of a tough Leeds Read More »
Hide and Seek (1964) Cy Endfield, Ian Carmichael

A professor of astronomy helping on a missile development program. An old friend of his is a Russian chess champion. Read More »
My Blue Heaven (1950) Henry Koster, Betty Grable

Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she’s pregnant, but miscarries. Read More »
Jazz Boy / Jazzgossen (1958) Maj-Britt Nilsson

The rich young man Teddy Anker invests his money in the theater in the beginning of the 1920s. Read More »
Trixie (2000) Alan Rudolph, Emily Watson

Emily Watson stars as Trixie, an eccentric woman who aspires to quit her job as a security Read More »
Littlerock (2010) Mike Ott, Atsuko Okatsuka, Cory Zacharia

A powerfully intimate drama that captures the fears and desires of a young Japanese woman lost in the U.S. Read More »
La Belle Époque (2019) Nicolas Bedos, Daniel Auteuil

Victor, a disillusioned sexagenarian, sees his life turned upside down Read More »
Night Train to Paris (1964) Robert Douglas

Former OSS officer Alan Holiday, now living in London, is visited on New Year’s Eve by Catherine Carrel Read More »