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Author Archives: rarefilm
Adam Wants to Be a Man / Adomas nori buti zmogumi (1959) Vytautas Zalakevicius, Vitalijus Puodziukaitis, Audrone Bajerciute, Stasis Petronaitis
In a pre-WWII Lithuanian town, occupied with unemployed workers and crooks of various kinds Read More »
Wives III / Hustruer III (1996) Anja Breien
Twenty years have passed since our three heroines’ first outing in 1975. Read More »
Having Wonderful Time (1938) Alfred Santell, Ginger Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Peggy Conklin
Ginger Rogers, an overworked New York office girl, seeks 2 weeks of rest and relaxation at a camp in the Catskills. Read More »
Who Killed Pasolini? / Pasolini un delitto italiano (1995) Marco Tullio Giordana, Carlo DeFilippi, Nicoletta Braschi, Toni Bertorelli
The story of the murder of a poet, a man, a great film director: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Read More »
The Moving Picture Man / El cine soy yo (1977) Luis Armando Roche, Juliet Berto, Domingo Del Castillo, Freddy Galavís
After practicing various professions, Jacinto becomes a movie projectionist. Read More »
Wives – Ten Years After (1985) Anja Breien
Ten years have passed since our three heroines’ first outing in 1975. Now the women meet at yet another class reunion. Read More »
Origins of a Meal / Genèse d’un repas (1979) Luc Moullet
Bananas, eggs, and tuna: three basic foodstuffs with three wildly different points of origin. Read More »
Bread and Milk (2001) Kruh in mleko
Ivan is released a day early from a treatment programme for alcoholics due to a doctors’ strike. Read More »
Malèna (2000) Giuseppe Tornatore, Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Luciano Federico
Amidst the outbreak of World War II, Renato, a young Sicilian boy, becomes infatuated with beautiful war widow Malena. Read More »