
Five children in an apparently ideal American small town find their lives changing as the years pass near the turn of the century in 1900. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Spiritually a Cop / Bok geuk cha lou (1991) Wai Shum, Stanley Sui-Fan Fung, Fong Lui, Hoi Mang
Fall In (1942) Kurt Neumann, William Tracy, Joe Sawyer, Robert Barrat

Captain Gillis (Frank Faylen) puts Sergeant “Dodo” Doubleday (William Tracy), because of his photographic memory Read More »
Ayneh / The Mirror (1997) Jafar Panahi, Mina Mohammad Khani, Aida Mohammadkhani, Kazem Mojdehi

A girl in traditional female clothing, with her arm in plaster, comes out of school one day and doesn’t find her mother meeting her. Read More »
Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942) Leo McCarey, Ginger Rogers, Cary Grant, Walter Slezak

At the start of WWII, Katie O’Hara, an American burlesque girl intent on social climbing, marries Austrian Baron Von Luber. Read More »
Baker’s Hawk (1976) Lyman Dayton, Clint Walker, Burl Ives, Diane Baker

When a young boy nurses an injured hawk back to health, he gains newfound courage and confidence on his own. Read More »
Guns at Batasi (1964) John Guillermin, Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson

Regimental Sergeant-Major Lauderdale is a spit-and-polish, by-the-book disciplinarian Read More »
The Wishful Thinkers / Los ilusos (2013) Jonás Trueba, Francesco Carril, Aura Garrido, Pedro Lozano

“Los ilusos” is a film about the desire to make films and what some filmmakers do when they aren’t making movies. Read More »
The Pumpkin Eater (1964) Jack Clayton, Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch, James Mason

Film screenwriter Jake Armitage and his wife Jo Armitage live in London with six of Jo’s eight children Read More »
The Seventh Veil (1945) Compton Bennett, James Mason, Ann Todd, Herbert Lom

One dark summer night, Francesca Cunningham, a once world famed pianist, escapes from her hospital room Read More »
