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Author Archives: rarefilm
Springtime in Pattaya / Chun man Ba Di Ya (1976) Chia-Hsiang Wu, Kun Li, Ping-Ou Wei, Shek-Ching Law

Handsome and young, Shih Hsing flew to Bangkok with his close friend Ping Ho Read More »
Swallows and Amazons (1974) Claude Whatham, Virginia McKenna, Ronald Fraser, Simon West

On holiday with their mother in the Lake District in 1929 four children are allowed Read More »
The Yellow Muffler / Yu nu xi chun (1972) Umetsugu Inoue, Betty Ting Pei, Hua Tsung, Paul Chun

Two sisters, Ching-ping (Irene Chen I-ling) and Pai-hung (Betty Ting Pei) struggle to find Read More »
The Shadow of a Gunman (1972) Joseph Hardy, Frank Converse, Brendan Dillon, Richard Dreyfuss

Donal Davoren is a poet but the folks in his tenement building think he’s an IRA gunman laying low. Read More »
John and Julie (1955) William Fairchild, Colin Gibson, Lesley Dudley, Noelle Middleton

John and Julie are two children, aged about 9 and 6, who live in Dorset. Read More »
Blue (1993) Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton, John Quentin

In his final-and most daring-cinematic statement, Jarman the romantic meets Jarman Read More »
Bruce Lee Against Supermen (1975) Chia-Chun Wu, Bruce Li

Scientist Dr Ting has invented a secret formula that will help the world’s food crisis Read More »
The Assassination Bureau (1969) Basil Dearden, Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas

The Assassination Bureau has existed for decades (perhaps centuries) until Sonya Winter Read More »
Respiro (2002) Emanuele Crialese, Valeria Golino, Vincenzo Amato, Francesco Casisa

Grazia is a mother of three who spends suffocating days packing fish while her husband Pietro is at sea. Read More »