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Author Archives: rarefilm
The Back of Beyond (1954) John Heyer, Tom Kruse, William Henry Butler, Jack the Dogger
A documentary film which follows a mailman as he travels along the Birdsville Track in the Outback. Read More »
House of Sand / Casa de Areia (2005) Andrucha Waddington, Fernanda Montenegro, Fernanda Torres, Ruy Guerra
Áurea arrives at a town in the dunes of State of Maranhão, Brazil, in 1910, having Read More »
Claire Dolan (1998) Lodge Kerrigan, Katrin Cartlidge, Vincent D’Onofrio, Colm Meaney
A high-priced call girl, shocked by her mother’s death Read More »
Whispers and Moans / Sing kung chok tse sup yut tam (2007) Herman Yau, Athena Chu, On-On Yu, Mandy Chiang
Set during a time of failing nightclubs in Hong Kong, the film follows the lives Read More »
Valentina (1989) Demetra Hampton, Russel Case, Antonello Fassari
The events revolve around the investigations of the photographer Valentina Rosselli Read More »
The Neptune Factor (1973) Daniel Petrie, Ben Gazzara, Walter Pidgeon, Ernest Borgnine
Aboard the R/V Triton, the Project Neptune team is doing oceanographic research. Read More »
The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966) Michael A. Hoey, Jon Hall, Arthur C. Pierce, Mamie Van Doren, Anthony Eisley, Billy Gray
Operation Deep Freeze, a scientific expedition to Antarctica discovers Read More »
Killer’s Mission / Shokin kasegi (1969) Shigehiro Ozawa, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Yumiko Nogawa, Tomoko Mayama
A shogunate secret agent is sent to investigate a secret deal with a Dutch Read More »
Hana-Dama: Phantom / Hanadama: Gen’ei (2016) Hisayasu Satô, Iori, Shima Ônishi, Kanade Ai
Two figures of the pink cinema – director Sato Hisayasu and screenwriter Read More »