
Barney O’Hara, a boxer retired from the ring because of bad eyes, settles in a small town with his nephew Chip. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Dial D for Demons (2000) Taan shiu hung chow

A young woman’s tragic suicide by inhaling fumes from a charcoal burner becomes headline news in the tabloids. Read More »
C’est pas moi, je le jure! (2008) It’s Not Me, I Swear!

Léon is ten years old, has lots of problems and an overly fertile imagination. Read More »
Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925) Ernst Lubitsch

Mrs Erlynne, the mother of Lady Windermere – her daughter does not know about her – wants to be introduced in society, so that she can marry Lord Augustus Lorton. Read More »
The Unfinished Dance (1947) Henry Koster

Meg, a young ballet student, idolizes the school’s top ballerina, the shallow Ariane Bouchet. Read More »
Il cardinale Lambertini (1954) Giorgio Pastina

In 1739 in Bologna, Archbishop Prospero Lambertini protects the love of Charles and of Countess Isabella Read More »
No Minor Vices (1948) Lewis Milestone

Perry Ashwell is a self-satisfied child psychologist who takes his colleagues and wife somewhat for granted. Read More »
The Battle of the Sexes (1960) Charles Crichton

Man-eating businesswoman, Angela Barrows is sent by her US company to Edinburgh to investigate export opportunities. Read More »
Ragtime (1981) Milos Forman, James Cagney

The story runs in the 1910’s New York. Coalhouse Walker Jr. is a black piano player. He has won fame and fortune playing with a jazz band. Read More »
The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell (2011) Ron Atkins

Mutilation Mile director Ron Atkins directs this apocalyptic shocker tracing Harry Russo’s journey to a plague-ridden Los Angeles Read More »