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Author Archives: rarefilm
Runway to Hell (1960) Masahiro Makino

When Kaneko Ichinosuke aims to avenge his father who was wrongly accused of embezzlement, the samurai Kochiyama Soshun agrees to assist. Read More »
La doublure (2006) The Valet – Francis Veber

A Parisian valet loves a woman who rejects him: she’s in debt to open a bookshop, and he’s not her ideal man. Read More »
The Last Island (1990) Marleen Gorris

After a large airliner crashes on a deserted island killing most of the passengers, two women Read More »
Summer Lights (2016) Lumières d’été

On the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Akihiro, a native Japanese filmmaker living in Paris Read More »
Die, Mommie, Die! (2003) Mark Rucker

Angela Arden is a washed up, has-been singing star who is trapped in a hateful marriage to film producer Sol Sussman. Read More »
It’s a Beautiful World (2014) Richard Beymer

Richard Beymer first met David Lynch when Lynch cast him as Ben Horne in the series Twin Peaks. Read More »
Les cinéphiles 2 – Eric a disparu (1989)

Continuation of the essay on the cinema of Louis Skorecki through the relations of some young cinephiles. Read More »
Sait-on jamais… (1957) No Sun in Venice

Cute Sophie is an amoral French girl living in a sumptuous Venetian palazzo. She is the kept woman of a very rich but undesirable fellow named Eric von Bergen, an ex-nazi turned forger. Read More »
That Lady (1955) Terence Young

Ana, the Princess of Eboli, wears a black patch over her right eye, where she was blinded as a youth when fighting a duel in defense of her king, the despotic Philip. Read More »