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Author Archives: rarefilm
Lisa (2001) Pierre Grimblat, Jeanne Moreau

Stumbling across an uncompleted 1939 film called “Princess Marushka”, filmmaker Sam becomes intrigued with the young actor Sylvain Marceau, who last appeared in the film. Read More »
The Quiet Gun (1957) William F. Claxton

Hired gun Doug Sadler rides into a small Western town and immediately provokes the local sheriff, Carl Brandon, by tormenting a simpleminded local named Sampson. Read More »
New Morals for Old (1932) Charles Brabin

A single mother struggles to raise her son and daughter, who find it difficult to listen to her life lessons. Read More »
A Slight Case of Larceny (1953) Don Weis

Two army buddies down on their luck open up a gas station and get involved in a price war – in a somewhat underhanded way. Read More »
Hidden Pleasures (1977) Los placeres ocultos

A wealthy closeted banker develops an obsessive romantic infatuation with an impoverished teenage student Read More »
Taking the Castle (1965) Shirotori

When two samurai warriors take on a job to take over the castle fort of an invading clan Read More »
The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan (1970)

An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo’s red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws. Read More »
Graveyard of Honor (1975) Jingi no hakaba

A look at the life of renegade yakuza, Rikio Ishikawa, particularly the years from 1946 to 1950 when his violent Read More »
The Messiah (2007) Nader Talebzadeh

The story of Jesus Christ told from an Islamic perspective. Read More »