
Glen Tyler (Elvis Presley) a down on his luck youth is sent to councilor Irene Sperry (Hope Lange) Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Onna no sono / The Garden of Women (1954) Keisuke Kinoshita, Mieko Takamine, Hideko Takamine, Keiko Kishi

A student at a woman’s university takes a controversial action against the school’s old-fashioned doctrines. Read More »
Ziegfeld Follies (1945) Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, William Powell, Judy Garland, Lucille Ball

In heaven, showman Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. fondly recalls his first Broadway revue, the Ziegfeld Follies of 1907. Read More »
Matador (1986) Pedro Almodóvar, Assumpta Serna, Antonio Banderas, Nacho Martínez

An ex-bullfighter who gets turned on by killing, a lady lawyer with the same fetish Read More »
Miami Blues (1990) George Armitage, Fred Ward, Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Jason Leigh

When Fred Frenger gets out of prison, he decides to start over in Miami, Florida, where he starts a violent one-man crime wave. Read More »
Earthquake (1974) Mark Robson, Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy

Construction Engineer Stuart Graff is estranged from his jealously possessive wife, Remy, and has an affair with Denise Marshall, the widow of a co-worker. Read More »
Deadly Strangers (1975) Sidney Hayers, Hayley Mills, Simon Ward, Sterling Hayden

Amidst public warnings of a dangerous patient who’s escaped from a mental hospital Read More »
The Blue Pearl (1951) Ishirô Honda, Yuriko Hamada, Reizaburô Yamamoto, Ryô Ikebe

The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama Read More »
American Grindhouse (2010) Elijah Drenner, Robert Forster, Eric Schaefer, Eddie Muller

This documentary explores the hidden history of the American Exploitation Film. Read More »
David’s Mother (1994) Robert Allan Ackerman, Kirstie Alley, Sam Waterston, Stockard Channing

Sally Goodson (Kirstie Alley) has been raising her autistic son David (Michael A. Goorjian) alone since her husband left many years ago. Read More »