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Author Archives: rarefilm
Expresso Bongo (1959) Val Guest, Laurence Harvey, Sylvia Syms, Yolande Donlan, Drama, Music

Johnny Jackson, a sleazy talent agent, discovers teenager Bert Rudge singing in a coffee house. Read More »
Yakuza Graveyard AKA Yakuza no hakaba: Kuchinashi no hana (1976) Kinji Fukasaku, Tetsuya Watari, Meiko Kaji, Tatsuo Umemiya

When a cop is transferred to a new precinct it is obvious that the area’s yakuza mob Read More »
Della (1964) Robert Gist, Paul Burke, Charles Bickford, Joan Crawford

Della Chappell (Joan Crawford) is a very wealthy and incredibly reclusive woman. Read More »
The Pathfinder (1952) Sidney Salkow, George Montgomery, Helena Carter, Jay Silverheels

Pathfinder, a white man raised by the Mohican Indians Read More »
Hu die / Butterfly (2004) Yan Yan Mak, Josie Ho, Yuan Tian, Eric Kot

Flavia is a thirtysomething married teacher. She has suppressed the memory of her adolescent lesbian fling with Jin and is stuck in a stifling marriage. Read More »
The Westerner (1940) William Wyler, Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport

Cole Harden just doesn’t look like a horse thief, Jane-Ellen Matthews tells Judge Roy Bean as she steps up to the bar. Read More »
It Will Never Be Spring / Wildgroei (1994) Frouke Fokkema, Hilde Van Mieghem, Thom Hoffman, Ellen Ten Damme

A complicated love affair between a publisher and a writer. Despite their strong physical attraction Read More »
The Wandering Image / Das wandernde Bild (1920) Fritz Lang, Mia May, Hans Marr, Rudolf Klein-Rogge

Mia May has surrendered herself to a disciple of free love, and, having given birth to a child Read More »
Darlings! / Schatjes! (1984) Ruud van Hemert, Peter Faber, Geert de Jong, Akkemay Elderenbos

A peaceful family-life is suddenly disturbed when the children enter puberty. Read More »