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@rarefilmm

Man on a mission to find and preserve the rarest and most obscure films ever made. Posts mostly film & TV related content.

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Freakonomics Radio Freakonomics co-author Stephen J. Dubner uncovers the hidden side of everything. Why is it safer to fly in an airplane than drive a car? How do we decide whom to marry? Why is the media so full of bad...

From episode 665, full conversation can be found here:
www.npr.org/podcasts/452...

09.03.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Here, hear it from the man himself.

09.03.2026 19:12 πŸ‘ 652 πŸ” 283 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 7

β€œPiracy is the most effective form of artistic distribution these days. So be it.”

-Werner Herzog on NPR just now πŸ”₯

08.03.2026 23:38 πŸ‘ 7417 πŸ” 2151 πŸ’¬ 41 πŸ“Œ 144

Done!
bsky.app/profile/rare...

09.03.2026 17:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Reuploaded by request:
transfer.it/t/T2HjO1hhEJhY

09.03.2026 17:36 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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π™‰π™šπ™¬ 𝙔𝙀𝙧𝙠, 𝙄 π™‡π™€π™«π™š 𝙔𝙀π™ͺ (2009) πŸ—½

~An anthology featuring 11 stories that explore various
aspects of love set against the backdrop of New York City.
Each, directed by different filmmakers, interconnected
with unique characters and their romantic encounters.~

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14.02.2026 23:20 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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π‘·π’‚π’“π’Šπ’”, 𝒋𝒆 𝒕'π’‚π’Šπ’Žπ’† (2006) πŸ‡«πŸ‡·

Paris comes to life in this whimsical patchwork of
18 five-minute shorts united by a common theme:
love in the City of Lights.
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14.02.2026 19:13 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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οΌ΄ο½ˆο½… Hire (2001-2002)

A series of short films centered on a BMW Driver hired
to perform tasks for a client, typically to transport
individuals or cargo while evading pursuit.

Thank you to BadIdeasMovie on twitter for sharingπŸ™πŸ»

βŽ™ 4Ι’Κ™ [480i DVD remux]
πŸ’Ύ[ transfer.it/t/bmexiyghmRKY ]

06.03.2026 23:19 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Very cool, thanks for sharing!
I'm downloading it even tho it doesn't have subs and I don't understand a word of Mandarin, maybe a Romero fan fluent in Chinese could sub it? Like you said in the posts it's probably the only copy that survived.

09.03.2026 13:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
θ˜‡η₯Ώεœ‹ηŽ‹θˆ‡δΈ­εœ‹ηš‡εΈοΌˆδΈŠοΌ‰(1987)
θ˜‡η₯Ώεœ‹ηŽ‹θˆ‡δΈ­εœ‹ηš‡εΈοΌˆδΈŠοΌ‰(1987) YouTube video by 廖偉倫

Eddie Romero apparently got to make a film with the Beijing Film company in the 1980s about Sulu king Paduka Pahala going to Beijing to meet Ming emperor Zhu Di, only to die from illness before coming home

And apparently the movie is just here now, on YouTube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=whg6...

08.03.2026 10:19 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Hello,
Sorry about that, it's back now, I know the website has had connectivity issues for the past few months, the webhost I'm using become very unstable lately and they aren't giving me any solutions so I will be moving the site to a more stable host in the coming weeks.

04.03.2026 04:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Odd.
Who knows for how long the VPN thing will work tho, seems it's just a matter of time until every country starts asking for IDs for all social medias and services online :/

01.03.2026 02:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Still works, I just didn't know I had to use it before today.

01.03.2026 02:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks, yeah, I used Windscribe which is free and no age verification anymore.

01.03.2026 02:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

OK thankfully using a VPN erases the age verification thing so I'm staying for now, thanks for the help!

01.03.2026 02:29 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not even in the U.S., so not sure if a VPN would do anything?

28.02.2026 23:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Well, age verification just hit me, can't read my DMs unless I submit my ID and all that bs, guess it's goodbye Bluesky for me.

28.02.2026 23:18 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1
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Here
gofile.io/d/NgzWSl

28.02.2026 06:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Vecher nakanune Ivana Kupala (1968) Petro is a modest farmhand living in an impoverished village in some unspecified long-ago era. He wants to marry the lovely Pidorka, but her stern father won't hear of it. The mischievous demon Basavr...

Banned by the Soviet Union, "The Eve of Ivan Kupalo" can be found streaming on Metrograph at Home through the end of the month and at @rarefilmm.bsky.social

rarefilmm.com/2025/10/vech...

27.02.2026 20:10 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Wife (1995) Tom Noonan's dark comedy features a husband-and-wife team of psychotherapists who run a New-Age therapy group out in the wilderness. Late one night, Jack and Rita are visited by one of their patients,...

And if you were looking for some other films directed by Noonan I also just added his 1995 film THE WIFE which has only been released on DVD so far (not the best transfer) and seems to be OOP now.
rarefilmm.com/2026/02/the-...

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The Shape of Something Squashed (2014) Tom Noonan’s play-turned-film What Happened Was... won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Best Dramatic Feature in 1994. 20 years later, Noonan returned to his roots with The Shape of Somethng Squashed...

Additionally, you can now stream this one on rarefilmm
rarefilmm.com/2026/02/the-...

22.02.2026 07:23 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

RIP Tom Noonan.
Here's a link for his last directorial effort, filmed 20 years after his hit WHAT HAPPENED WAS, THE SHAPE OF SOMETHING SQUASHED (2014).
transfer.it/t/yhtYflo3lZaT

22.02.2026 07:21 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

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14.02.2026 10:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe it needed me to follow you, try now, and thanks!

09.02.2026 11:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

DM me, Max, got any rarities?

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J. Cole - I Love Her Again (Official Audio)
J. Cole - I Love Her Again (Official Audio) YouTube video by J. Cole

J Cole did it again
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1jC...

09.02.2026 05:03 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I wish I had equipment to digitize but I don't unfortunately, maybe one day I can start my own digitizing rig or something haha, would be pretty cool, I'll send him a message tho and will let a friend in the Phillipines know as well.

02.02.2026 06:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow that's a lot of tapes to digitize, but that's a great thing they are willing to digitize them and give them work in the process, that guy is going to need some help tho for sure, is he just a one man operation?

02.02.2026 06:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Paradjanov: A Requiem (1994) Parajanov: AΒ RequiemΒ charts the evolution of the controversial director's artistry, which culminated in the creation of his brilliant, hallucinatory film fantasies of poetry and folk legends. Rare, ex...

A very good documentary on Georgian-Armenian director Sergei Parajanov, with excerpts of some of his films and an interview with the master himself filmed in a Munich hotel room in 1988.
Now available to stream and download on rarefilmm
rarefilmm.com/2026/01/para...

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PARADJANOV: A REQUIEM (Ron Holloway, 1994)

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