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Author Archives: rarefilm
People in the Summer Night (1948) Valentin Vaala

A visual poem based on a story by Nobel laureate F.E. Sillanpää. Read More »
Fugitive in the Sky (1936) Nick Grinde, Jean Muir

Reporter Terry Brewer goes to the Los Angeles airport to say goodbye to his sweetheart, airline hostess Rita Moore. Read More »
Mad Holiday (1936) George B. Seitz, Edmund Lowe

Philip Trent is tired of playing film detective Shelby James. He thinks that the stories are tripe Read More »
Joyless Street (1925) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Asta Nielsen

Vienna in the biggest depression, directly after WW1. In a slum, Lila Leid, the wife of lawyer Leid is murdered Read More »
People Will Talk (1951) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Cary Grant

Dr. Noah Praetorius falls in love with Deborah, a student who discovers that she is pregnant by her old boyfriend. Read More »
The Wild Goose Lake (2019) Yi’nan Diao, Ge Hu

A gangster on the run sacrifices everything for his family and a woman he meets while on the lam. Read More »
Dangerous Beauty (1998) Marshall Herskovitz

A Venetian courtesan becomes a hero to her city, but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft. Read More »
See You Friday, Robinson (2022) Mitra Farahani

An insight into the role of the artist in the 20th and 21st centuries, with anything less than razor-sharp insight and humor. Read More »
1987 (2014) Ricardo Trogi, Jean-Carl Boucher

In 1987, Ricardo is 17. That summer, he has a busy schedule: lose his virginity Read More »