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Author Archives: rarefilm
Yesterday’s Hero (1979) Neil Leifer

A has-been, alcoholic former football superstar decides to make a comeback. Read More »
Chiamate 22-22 tenente Sheridan (1960)

Cathrine has been sentenced to the gas chamber but Police Lieutenant Sheridan Read More »
Los albañiles (1976) Jorge Fons, Jaime Fernández

A watchman is murdered at a building site. The film narrates several versions Read More »
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) John Cromwell, W.S. Van Dyke

An Englishman on a Ruritarian holiday must impersonate the king when the rightful monarch Read More »
Yesterday (2004) Darrell Roodt, Leleti Khumalo

After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter Read More »
Blue Sextet (1971) David E. Durston, John Damon

After an artist’s suicide, his friends and lovers trade stories about their time with him. Read More »
Ready to Fight (1987) Gerardo Herrero, Iván Aledo

Deceit and treachery in the currency smugglers underworld. Read More »
Lethal Vows (1999) Paul Schneider, John Ritter

A woman believes that her seemingly all-American ex-husband murdered his second wife, and is desperate to prove it. Read More »
Bacurau (2019) Juliano Dornelles, Bárbara Colen

After the death of her grandmother, Teresa comes home to her matriarchal village Read More »