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Author Archives: rarefilm
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955) Otto Preminger, Gary Cooper, Charles Bickford, Ralph Bellamy

The true story of General Billy Mitchell, a pioneering crusader for the Army’s fledgling air corp. Read More »
Capricci (1969) Carmelo Bene, Tonino Caputo, Anne Wiazemsky

An unrestrained phantasmagoria from Italy’s Carmelo Bene, one of the world’s most defiantly idiosyncratic filmmakers. Read More »
The Man Upstairs (1992) George Schaefer, Katharine Hepburn, Ryan O’Neal, Henry Beckman

Hepburn plays an elderly woman whose house becomes a hideaway for an escaped convict Read More »
The Wild Weird Wonderful Italians / Italiani come noi (1963) Pasquale Prunas, Adriano Baracco, Giovanni Fusco

An anthology of scenes from Italian life captured from life with clearly spectacular and vaguely polemical and popular intents. Read More »
Love From a Stranger (1947) Richard Whorf, John Hodiak, Sylvia Sidney, Ann Richards

Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. Read More »
Cone of Silence (1960) Charles Frend, Michael Craig, Peter Cushing, Bernard Lee

A seasoned pilot is condemned for an error which causes a crash. Read More »
Dita Saxová (1968) Antonín Moskalyk, Krystyna Mikolajewska, Bohus Záhorský, Karel Höger

Dita Saxová (Krystyna Mikolajewska) is the only one in her family to have survived the concentration camp. Read More »
Slap Shot (1977) George Roy Hill, Paul Newman, Michael Ontkean, Strother Martin

Located in the US Rust Belt, Charlestown is home of the hapless Chiefs Read More »
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman / Eburi manshi no yûga-na seikatsu (1963) Kihachi Okamoto, Keiju Kobayashi, Michiyo Aratama, Eijirô Tôno

This comedy portrays the everyday life of an ordinary salary-man who uses himself as a model to write a novella. Read More »