Twenty-something François collects boxes and bottles and resells them to shopkeepers. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Day by Day, Desperately / Giorno per giorno, disperatamente (1961) Alfredo Giannetti, Tomas Milian, Nino Castelnuovo, Madeleine Robinson
The mental illness that struck young Dario, one of the two children of the Dominici family Read More »
Meet the Parents (1992) Greg Glienna, Tony Boswell, Jacqueline Cahill, Mary Ruth Clarke
A man goes to meet his girlfriend’s parent’s….but that is when trouble starts. Read More »
The Game / Gra (1969) Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Lucyna Winnicka, Gustaw Holoubek, Helena Bystrzanowska
A bourgeois married couple of 12 years are going through an existential crisis. Read More »
Ironclad (2011) Jonathan English, Paul Giamatti, Jason Flemyng, Brian Cox
It is the year 1215 and the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John Read More »
Twilight / Crepúsculo (1945) Julio Bracho, Arturo de Córdova, Gloria Marín, Julio Villarreal
A brilliant surgeon is dazed and feels he can no longer operate. Read More »
New Orleans (1947) Arthur Lubin, Arturo de Córdova, Dorothy Patrick, Marjorie Lord
A gambling hall owner relocates from New Orleans to Chicago Read More »
Cannery Row (1982) David S. Ward, Nick Nolte, Debra Winger, Audra Lindley
Monterey, California in the 1940’s. Cannery Row – the section of town where the now closed fish canneries are located Read More »
The Ambassador (1984) J. Lee Thompson, Robert Mitchum, Ellen Burstyn, Rock Hudson
Robert Mitchum plays a controversial U.S. ambassador to Israel who tries to solve the Palestinian Read More »
The Shoe / Kurpe (1998) Laila Pakalnina, Ivars Brakovskis, Igors Buraks, Viktors Cestnovs
The Shoe is set in a seaside Latvian town in the 1950s and deals with absurd laws of life in a border state. Read More »