
This comedy romp takes place in and around Stockholm’s Old Town, which is inhabited by various dubious characters doing dubious things Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Yatsuhaka-mura / Village of Eight Gravestones (1977) Yoshitarô Nomura, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Mayumi Ogawa, Tsutomu Yamazaki

A Tokyo man witnesses the death by poisoning of his grandfather, Read More »
Kage no kuruma / The Shadow Within (1970) Yoshitarô Nomura, Shima Iwashita, Gô Katô, Mayumi Ogawa

When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him. Read More »
Hotel Imperial (1939) Robert Florey, Isa Miranda, Ray Milland, Reginald Owen

It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man’s-land where the Russians Read More »
Farewell My Concubine / Ba wang bie ji (1993) Kaige Chen, Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Li Gong

In 1924, young Cheng Dieyi (Leslie Cheung) begins training at the Beijing Opera House Read More »
Unfinished Business (1984) Don Owen, Isabelle Mejias, Peter Spence, Leslie Toth

Seventeen year old Isabelle Marks lives in Toronto with her divorced mother Read More »
Jongens AKA Boys (2014) Mischa Kamp, Gijs Blom, Ko Zandvliet, Jonas Smulders

BOYS tells the story of Sieger, a sporty, rather quiet 15-year-old boy who discovers love during the summer holidays. Read More »
Second Chorus (1940) H.C. Potter, Fred Astaire, Paulette Goddard, Artie Shaw

Danny and Hank are surprised when Artie Shaw hires competent manager Ellen away from their college band. Read More »
Island (1989) Paul Cox, Irene Papas, Eva Sitteová, Anoja Weerasinghe

A formerly rich Czech-Australian emigrant comes to a tiny, poor and sleepy Greek Island to rethink her life. Read More »
Another Meltdown / Bi xie lan tian (1998) Wai-Lun Lam, Wenzhuo Zhao, Qi Shu, Andrew Lin

A patriotic Chinese cop is reposted to fictional East European country Lavernia Read More »