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Author Archives: rarefilm
George and Mildred (1980) Peter Frazer-Jones, Yootha Joyce, Brian Murphy, Stratford Johns

Mildred decides that she and George will celebrate their anniversary at a posh London hotel – whatever the cost. Read More »
Gervaise (1956) René Clément, Maria Schell, François Périer, Jany Holt

An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction Read More »
At Home in Kocourkov / U nás v Kocourkove (1934) Miroslav Cikán, Jan Werich, Jindrich Plachta, Václav Trégl

At Kocourkov railway station, an escaped fraudster Ferdinand Kaplan arrives and is welcomed Read More »
The Midas Touch / Eldorádó (1988) Géza Bereményi, Károly Eperjes, Judit Pogány, Enikõ Eszenyi

The story takes place in the urban districts of Pest focusing on the marketplace Read More »
Titanic Town (1998) Roger Michell, Julie Walters, Ciarán Hinds, Nuala O’Neill

Set in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1972, the politically naïve Bernie McPhelimy Read More »
The Delos Adventure (1986) Joseph Purcell, Roger Kern, Jenny Neumann, Kurtwood Smith

When demolition expert Bard Clemens joins a scientific expedition on the beautiful Read More »
Sin with a Stranger / L’étrangère (1968) Sergio Gobbi, Marie-France Boyer, Pierre Vaneck, Pierre Massimi

François, a journalist, is approached on the train home by a pretty blonde. Read More »
It’s a Bikini World (1967) Stephanie Rothman, Deborah Walley, Tommy Kirk, Bobby Pickett

As soon as he sees her for the first time, Mike Samson, the big man on his southern California beach Read More »
Magnificent Butcher / Lin Shi Rong (1979) Woo-Ping Yuen, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Tak-Hing Kwan, Biao Yuen

A plump butcher student of Wong Fei Hung, Lam Sai-Wing (Sammo) gets into trouble Read More »