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Author Archives: rarefilm
Silent Movie (1976) Mel Brooks

A film director and his strange friends struggle to produce the first major silent feature film in forty years. Read More »
A Love Story (1933) Max Ophüls

A young German officer’s (Wolfgang Liebeneiner) life is turned upside when he tries to end Read More »
Liberty Heights (1999) Barry Levinson

Baltimore, Fall 1954: Schools implement the new integration law. Ben finds the “colored” girl in his class cute Read More »
Manhattan Parade (1931) Lloyd Bacon

The John Roberts Costume Company is being run super-efficiently by Doris Roberts Read More »
The Sweet Aunts (1975) Mario Imperoli

The young and inexperienced teenager Libero is taken into custody by his anarchist grandfather. Read More »
The Honeymoon Killers (1969) Leonard Kastle

An obese, embittered nurse doesn’t mind if her toupee-wearing boyfriend romances and fleeces other women Read More »
The Great Beauty (2013) Paolo Sorrentino

Journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades. Read More »
Tempest (1928) Sam Taylor, Lewis Milestone

In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. Read More »
The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) Werner Herzog

An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people’s visits to Earth and Earth’s man-made demise Read More »