A boxer has difficulty balancing his sport with a budding romance Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Johnny Eager (1941) Mervyn LeRoy, Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold
Ruthless hood Johnny Eager is pretending to his parole officer that he has chucked the rackets and is now a full-time taxi driver. Read More »
Il Maestro di Vigevano / The Teacher from Vigevano (1963) Elio Petri, Alberto Sordi, Claire Bloom, Vito De Taranto
Primary school teacher Mr. Mombelli, nevertheless satisfied with his life, is driven by his wife Read More »
Shussho Iwai / The Wolves (1971) Hideo Gosha, Rumi Aiki, Hideyo Amamoto, Noboru Andô
Seiji Iwahashi is released early from a 10-year prison sentence for killing the boss of a rival. Read More »
Travelling Actors / Tabi yakusha (1940) Mikio Naruse, Kamatari Fujiwara, Kan Yanagiya, Minoru Takase
Story about a group of actors mostly based on the guys playing the horse. Read More »
The Geisha Boy (1958) Frank Tashlin, Jerry Lewis, Marie McDonald, Sessue Hayakawa
Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. Read More »
Bye bye, Barbara (1969) Michel Deville, Ewa Swann, Philippe Avron, Bruno Cremer
A journalist meets a pretty, young woman in Biarritz and they fall in love with each other. Read More »
The Dancing Girl of Izu / Koi no hana saku Izu no odoriko (1933) Heinosuke Gosho, Kinuyo Tanaka, Den Ohinata, Tokuji Kobayashi
In this adaptation from Kawabata, a young student becomes friends with a brother Read More »
Yellow Crow / Kiiroi karasu (1957) Heinosuke Gosho, Chikage Awashima, Yûnosuke Itô, Kinuyo Tanaka
A young boy has formed an idealized image of his father, who has yet to be repatriated from Russia. Read More »
Le secret de Mayerling / The Secret of Mayerling (1949) Jean Delannoy, Jean Marais, Dominique Blanchar, Jean Debucourt
On the morning of January 30, 1889, the Archduke Rodolphe de Habsbourg Read More »