
David Santo was born in Portugal, in the Atlantic islands of the Azores, and was five months old at the time his parents immigrated to the US. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Key Exchange (1985) Barnet Kellman, Brooke Adams, Danny Aiello, Seth Allen, Comedy, Romance

A young woman wants to get her boyfriend to commit to her, but the most she can get him to do is exchange apartment keys.
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The Devil Is a Woman (1935) Josef von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Edward Everett Horton, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Film told in flashbacks of an older man’s obsession for a woman who can belong to no-one but can frustrate everyone. Read More »
Hamlet liikemaailmassa / Hamlet Goes Business (1987) Aki Kaurismäki, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Esko Salminen, Kati Outinen, Comedy, Drama, Romance

A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’. After the death of his father, young Hamlet inherits a seat on the board of a company controlled by his uncle that decides to move into the rubber duck market. But Hamlet is suspicious of the circumstances surrounding his father’s death…
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Shin shikôtei / The Great Wall (1962) Shigeo Tanaka, Shintarô Katsu, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ken Utsui, Adventure

In 221 BC, Qin Shihuang conquered the rest of China. Qin’s great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Read More »
Rossini (1942) Mario Bonnard, Nino Besozzi, Paola Barbara, Camillo Pilotto, Biography, Musical

The famous composer’s life and his career. His love story with Isabella Colbran, the soprano who was to become his wife and the singer in all his operas up to the unfortunate day she lost her voice.
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The Swinging Coeds (1972) Walter Boos, Karin Götz, Christina Lindberg, Marlene Rahn, Rosl Mayr, Ingrid Steeger, Ulrike Butz, Dorit Henke, Comedy, Erotic

Young women come to Munich for fun and work during the ’72 Olympics and invariably wind up naked. Read More »
Babylon Pink (1979) Henri Pachard, Arcadia Lake, Bobby Astyr, Robert Kerman, Adult, Comedy, Drama

Freudian repressions fill the fantasies of a sexually bored housewife, a seemingly emasculating businesswoman employer, a shy dinner attendee Read More »
Fado, História d’uma Cantadeira / Fado, Story of a Singer (1947) Perdigão Queiroga, Amália Rodrigues, Virgilio Teixeira, Vasco Santana, Drama, Musical, Romance

Ana Maria loves a modest guitar player, Júlio; when she herself in a ‘retiro’ (typical fado tavern), public andcritics rend major applause. Read More »
Rengoku eroica / Heroic Purgatory (1970) Yoshishige Yoshida, Mariko Okada, Kaizo Kamoda, Naho Kimura, Drama, Fantasy

Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako returns home with a lost teenager called Ayu. Read More »