“Los ilusos” is a film about the desire to make films and what some filmmakers do when they aren’t making movies. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
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 »
A Cab for Three / Taxi para tres (2001) Orlando Lübbert, Alejandro Trejo, Fernando Gómez Rovira, Daniel Muñoz
A taxi driver is given a difficult choice from 2 small time crooks: drive them around while they rob, or get locked up in the trunk. Read More »
The Third Man (1949) Carol Reed, Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli
An out of work pulp fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in a post war Vienna divided Read More »
Yield to the Night (1956) J. Lee Thompson, Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig
A young woman who has been abused and taken advantage of by all the men in her life Read More »
Giallo in Venice (1979) Mario Landi, Leonora Fani
Inspector Angelo De Pol (Jeff Blynn) is assigned to the case of a double murder in Venice Read More »
An American Romance (1944) King Vidor, Brian Donlevy, Ann Richards, Walter Abel
Stefan Dangos immigrates to America and works his way up from the iron Read More »
The Killing Yard (2001) Euzhan Palcy, Alan Alda, Morris Chestnut, Rose McGowan
A man is accused of murdering two of his inmates around the same time as the 1971 Attica prison riots. Read More »
Sooner or Later (1979) Bruce Hart, Denise Miller, Rex Smith, Barbara Feldon
Thirteen-year-old Jessie is in love with Michael, a 17-year-old guitar instructor and aspiring musician. Read More »