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Author Archives: rarefilm
Hoodlum (1997) Bill Duke, Laurence Fishburne, Tim Roth, Vanessa Williams
The film focuses on the war of two gangs in 1930s Harlem for the control of illegal gaming Read More »
Designing Woman (1957) Vincente Minnelli, Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray
After Mike Hagen and Marilla Brown wed after a whirlwind love on the west shore they come back to New York to discover they don’t have much in common. Read More »
Organised Violence Two / Zoku soshiki bôryoku (1967) Jun’ya Satô, Tetsurô Tanba, Fumio Watanabe, Hayato Tani
A superb proto-jitsuroku type yakuza film by Junya Sato. Fumio Watanabe (in probably his best role) Read More »
Me, Me, Me… and the Others / Io, io, io…. e gli altri (1966) Alessandro Blasetti, Gina Lollobrigida, Silvana Mangano, Walter Chiari
Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Read More »
George in Civvy Street (1946) Marcel Varnel, George Formby, Rosalyn Boulter, Ronald Shiner
At the end of the war George Harper (George Formby) is demobbed out of the army Read More »
Duel at Lightning Pass / Inazuma tôge no kettô (1962) Nobuo Nakagawa, Utaemon Ichikawa, Shinjirô Ebara, Terumi Oka
A story about a spear master’s spiritual and martial discipline. Read More »
Criminal Squad / Brigada criminal (1950) Ignacio F. Iquino, José Suárez, Soledad Lence, Alfonso Estela
A young policemen witnesses a bank robbery which will become his first case. Read More »
Survival in Berlin-Neukölln / Überleben in Neukölln (2017) Rosa von Praunheim, Markus Tiarks, Enana Alassar, Mischa Badasyan, Bernhard Beutler
About Stefan Stricker, who calls himself Juwelia and has been running a gallery on Sanderstraße Read More »
Confessions of Felix Krull / Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull (1957) Kurt Hoffmann, Horst Buchholz, Liselotte Pulver, Ingrid Andree
Confessions of Felix Krull was adapted from the last novel by German author Thomas Mann. Read More »