On February 26, 1815 Napoleon leaves his exile on Elba. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Beauty and the Beast / Skønheden og udyret (1983) Nils Malmros, Line Arlien-Søborg, Jesper Klein, Carsten Jørgensen
When Mette and her father are left alone over the Christmas holidays Read More »
My Father the Hero / Mon père, ce héros. (1991) Gérard Lauzier, Gérard Depardieu, Marie Gillain, Catherine Jacob
Veronique, living with her divorced mother, is going on holiday to Mauritius with her father. Read More »
Defenseless (1991) Martin Campbell, Barbara Hershey, Sam Shepard, Mary Beth Hurt
The lawyer Thelma “T.K.” Knudsen Katwuller is having a love affair with her client Read More »
G.B.H. (1983) David Kent-Watson, Cliff Twemlow
Superstar bouncer Steve Donovan is pulled back into the world of gang violence when he accepts Read More »
Safe Word AKA Aishiteru! (2022) Kôji Shiraishi, Kawase Chisako, Torinomi Nagisa, Otsuha Ai
Misa is an underground idol and being filmed closely for a documentary. Read More »
Good Weather, But Stormy Late This Afternoon / Beau temps mais orageux en fin de journée (1986) Gérard Frot-Coutaz, Micheline Presle, Claude Piéplu, Xavier Deluc
Jacques and Jacqueline do not have much more pleasant to say to each other Read More »
Golden Dawn (1930) Ray Enright, Walter Woolf King, Vivienne Segal, Noah Beery
The film is based on the semi-hit stage musical of the same name by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach. Read More »
The Man on the Shore / L’homme sur les quais (1993)
In flashback of a Haitian woman’s childhood experience under the Duvalier regime. Read More »
Run of the Arrow (1957) Samuel Fuller, Rod Steiger, Sara Montiel, Brian Keith
A Rebel vet, O’Meara has refused to surrender when Lee does at Appomatox. Read More »