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Author Archives: rarefilm
Story of a Beloved Wife / Aisai monogatari (1951) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Jûkichi Uno, Ichirô Sugai

Shindo’s directorial debut is the fictionalized account of the death of his first wife. Read More »
Mr. Poirier’s Son-in-Law / Le gendre de Monsieur Poirier (1933) Marcel Pagnol, Léon Bernard, Annie Ducaux, Jean Debucourt

This is the story of a wealthy bourgeois who marries his only child, a daughter Read More »
The Forest for the Trees / Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen (2003) Maren Ade, Eva Löbau, Daniela Holtz, Jan Neumann

As an awkward idealistic high school teacher begins her first job in the city Read More »
Scissere (1982) Peter Mettler, Anthony Downes, Greg Krantz, Christie MacFadyen

Bruno Scissere, a heroin addict who has been confined to a psychiatric Read More »
Cow Country (1953) Lesley Selander, Edmond O’Brien, Helen Westcott, Robert Lowery

A “big” western by Allied Artists standards, Cow Country is directed with his usual panache by horse-opera expert Lesley Selander. Read More »
Zombie 5: Killing Birds (1987) Claudio Lattanzi, Joe D’Amato, Lara Wendel, Robert Vaughn, Timothy W. Watts

In Louisiana, a soldier returning from Vietnam finds his wife in bed with her lover Read More »
Back Street (1932) John M. Stahl, Irene Dunne, John Boles, June Clyde

A woman’s love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the “back streets” of his life. Read More »
Monsieur Verdoux (1947) Charles Chaplin, Mady Correll, Allison Roddan

Monsieur Verdoux is a bluebeard, he marries women and kills them after the marriage Read More »
A King in New York (1957) Charles Chaplin, Maxine Audley, Jerry Desmonde

Due to a revolution in his country, King Shahdov comes to New York – almost broke. Read More »