A successful theatrical director is driven to failure by the machinations of his vengeful wife. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Black Gestapo (1975) Lee Frost, Rod Perry, Charles Robinson, Phil Hoover
General Ahmed has started an inner-city People’s Army to try and relieve the misery of the citizens of Watts. Read More »
Where It’s At (1969) Garson Kanin, David Janssen, Rosemary Forsyth, Robert Drivas
A “Sixties Generation” comedy about an offbeat father-son relationship. Read More »
Cancel My Reservation (1972) Paul Bogart, Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Bellamy
The title of this Bob Hope vehicle Cancel My Reservation is a multiple pun, referring to elements in the story. Read More »
Le mani sporche / Dirty Hands (1978) Elio Petri, Giovanni Visentin, Giuliana de Sio, Anna Maria Gherardi
A young, impressionable communist Hugo is sent to kill a rogue party chairman Read More »
The Winner’s Circle / Premières armes (1950) René Wheeler, Michèle Alfa, Julien Carette, Guy Decomble
The heroes are young boys, trained as jockeys in a horse farm. Read More »
Young Toscanini / Il giovane Toscanini (1988) Franco Zeffirelli, C. Thomas Howell, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophie Ward
In Rio de Janeiro in 1886, eighteen-year-old conductor Arturo Toscanini (C. Thomas Howell) Read More »
Concert of Wishes / Koncert zyczen (1967) Krzysztof Kieslowski, Ryszard Dembinski, Jerzy Fedorowicz, Ewa Konarska
A young couple leave a lake campsite on motorbike at the same time as a bus full of youths. Read More »
A che punto è la notte (1994) Nanni Loy, Marcello Mastroianni, Marie Laforêt, Yvonne Sciò
In a church in Turin, an awkward priest gets killed by a bomb hidden inside a votive candle during the homily. Read More »
Ministry of Fear (1944) Fritz Lang, Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond
Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn’t seem so sane outside either. Read More »