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Author Archives: rarefilm
Upstream Color (2013) Shane Carruth, Amy Seimetz, Andrew Sensenig

A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Read More »
The Village (1975) Yôji Yamada, Chieko Baishô, Akira Terao, Atom Shimojô

A quasi-docu-drama pertaining to the monumental process to bring a performance troupe to a small Japanese village to perform for one night. Read More »
The Outskirts (1998) Pyotr Lutsik, Yuriy Dubrovin, Nikolay Olyalin, Aleksei Pushkin

The hero is an ordinary farmer, Philip Safronov, whose peaceful life is aggressively interrupted Read More »
Shopping for Fangs (1997) Quentin Lee, Justin Lin, Radmar Agana Jao, Jeanne Chinn, Clint Jung

A married woman, who’s been getting seductive phone calls from a lesbian, and a man, who believes he might be a werewolf Read More »
Light Blast / Colpi di luce (1985) Enzo G. Castellari, Erik Estrada, Ennio Girolami, Michael Pritchard

A crazed physician invents a death ray and threatens to destroy San Francisco unless he is paid $10 million. Read More »
Whistling in Kotan (1959) Mikio Naruse, Ken Yamauchi, Yoshiko Kôda, Masayuki Mori

In the outskirts of a city in Hokkaido, an indigenous Ainu family faces discrimination Read More »
Hammerhead (1987) Enzo G. Castellari, Daniel Greene, Melonee Rodgers, Jorge Gil

A detective’s hunt for the man who murdered his friend takes him to the Caribbean Read More »
Dial Red O (1955) Daniel B. Ullman, Bill Elliott, Helene Stanley, Keith Larsen, Crime, Drama, Mystery

The first of the five films where Bill Elliott played a detective lieutenant in the L.A Sheriff’s department, Dial Red “O” Read More »
Behold a Pale Horse (1964) Fred Zinnemann, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif, Drama, War

Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. Read More »