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Author Archives: rarefilm
Lemon Popsicle V / Roman Za’ir (1983) Dan Wolman, Yftach Katzur, Zachi Noy, Jonathan Sagall
Benny falls in love with his best friend’s little sister. Read More »
Sacrifice d’honneur / Veille d’armes (1935) Marcel L’Herbier, Annabella, Victor Francen, Gabriel Signoret
In a time of national emergency, the wife of the Captain of a French battleship finds Read More »
Men Must Fight (1933) Edgar Selwyn, Diana Wynyard, Lewis Stone, Phillips Holmes
Laura is a nurse at the Front in World War I. She meets and falls for a young flyer named Geoffrey. Read More »
Made for Each Other (1971) Robert B. Bean, Renée Taylor, Joseph Bologna, Paul Sorvino
An eccentric woman meets an equally odd man at a group therapy session and they begin a relationship. Read More »
The Balcony (1963) Joseph Strick, Shelley Winters, Peter Falk, Lee Grant
Shelley Winters is the madame of a house where customers play out their erotic fantasies Read More »
To Be a Crook / Une Fille et des Fusils (1965) Claude Lelouch, Janine Magnan, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Jacques Portet
His people are four Parisian workmen who have seen so many gangster and Western films that Read More »
Belizaire the Cajun (1986) Glen Pitre, Armand Assante, Gail Youngs, Michael Schoeffling
This inexpensive but effusively energetic film is set in Louisiana’s Cajun country of the 19th century. Read More »
The Masquerader (1933) Richard Wallace, Ronald Colman, Elissa Landi, Juliette Compton
MP John Chilcote is addicted to drugs and its made his already unpleasant personality more so. Read More »
Dave (1993) Ivan Reitman, Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella
Bill Mitchell is the philandering and distant President of the United States. Read More »