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Author Archives: rarefilm
The Front Page (1931) Lewis Milestone

Hildy Johnson, newspaper reporter, is engaged to Peggy Grant and planning to move to New York for a higher paying advertising job. Read More »
Gentlemen Are Born (1934) Alfred E. Green

A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression Read More »
Marked Eyes (1964) Les yeux cernés

Wollmer, the owner of a sawmill in Tyrol, has been assassinated. But since he was hated by almost everyone, there is a plethora of possible assassins. Read More »
The Day the Fish Came Out (1967)

A plane carrying a weapon more dangerous than a nuclear weapon goes down near Greece. Read More »
The Suicide Shop (2012) Le magasin des suicides

A family-run shop that sells everything you need to take your own life finds it hard to focus on business after a new baby Read More »
Shanda’s River (2018) Marco Rosson

A professor goes to a small town in Italy to study the story of a witch killed in the early 1800’s, and is drawn into a web of terror Read More »
Savage Beasts (1979) Saldirganlar

Nasty sleaze fest, very violent and misogynistic. Read More »
Glamorous Night (1937) Brian Desmond Hurst

The popular Ivor Novello musical play Glamorous Night was given a conservative film treatment in 1937–minus much of the Novello score that had made it famous. Read More »
Wish You Were Here (1987) David Leland

In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. Read More »