Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball team. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Marianne (1997) Benoît Jacquot, Virginie Ledoyen, Marcel Bozonnet, Julie Gayet
A romance of 18th-century Paris: Virginie Ledoyen plays a lovely and graceful orphan Read More »
The Postmodern Life of My Aunt / Yi ma de hou xian dai sheng huo (2006) Ann Hui, Wenshuo Guan, Yun-Fat Chow, Gaowa Siqin
Ye Rutang (Siqin Gaowa), a single-living woman in her late fifties, struggles to maintain a dignified life amid the dangers of Shanghai. Read More »
France société anonyme / French Anonymity Society (1974) Alain Corneau, Michel Bouquet, Allyn Ann McLerie, Roland Dubillard
Year 2222. A former drug dealer who keeps someone alive artificially, tells how, in France in the 70s Read More »
Mazzabubù… quante corna stanno quaggiù? (1971) Mariano Laurenti, Ugo Adinolfi, Maurizio Arena, Renato Baldini
During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man passing in review Read More »
Design for Scandal (1941) Norman Taurog, Rosalind Russell, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold
To save his job, newsman Jeff Sherman offers to help his boss get out of a swingeing alimony settlement. Read More »
Brand Upon the Brain! A Remembrance in 12 Chapters (2006) Guy Maddin, Gretchen Krich, Sullivan Brown, Maya Lawson
Guy Maddin reluctantly returns to his childhood home, an abandoned Canadian island Read More »
Bigger Than Life (1956) Nicholas Ray, James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau
Schoolteacher and family man Ed Avery, who’s been suffering bouts of severe pain Read More »
The Sergeant (1968) John Flynn, Rod Steiger, John Phillip Law, Ludmila Mikaël
THE SERGEANT is the story of the dark inner struggle of Master Sergeant Albert Callan Read More »
No Leave, No Love (1946) Charles Martin, Van Johnson, Keenan Wynn, Pat Kirkwood
The men are coming home from war and Slinky decides his hero buddy Michael should first appear on a radio program. Read More »