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1959
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"Probably the
funniest picture of recent memory. It's a wacky, clever, farcical comedy
that starts off like a firecracker and keeps on throwing off lively
sparks till the very end" - Variety |
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John Walker, Chris Hegedus, Barry Norman, Alexander Walker,
Bryan Forbes. |
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Salon
Roger Ebert's Great Movies |
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JEAN-LUC
GODARD (30) |
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1959
| 89m | BW | France | Drama, Crime Drama |
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"Fast and
loose, with a buzzing sense of the potential of the cinema undercut by
the beginnings of
Godard’s intellectual rigour, this is at once a
homage to the American gangster film, and an attack on the very ideas of
Americans, gangsters and films"
- Kim Newman, Empire |
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Jan Nemec,
Michael Winterbottom, Bill
Rothman, David Stratton, Andrey Plakhov. |
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Senses of Cinema
Roger Ebert’s Great Movies |
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Persona |
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INGMAR
BERGMAN (34) |
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1966
| 81m | BW | Sweden | Drama, Psychological Drama |
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"Never before
on film has the derailed psyche been more penetratingly examined, never
before has the drama been played so consistently beneath the surface,
yet without the slightest sacrifice in palpable excitement."
- John Simon |
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Selected by
Paul Schrader,
István Szabó, Geoff Andrew, Molly Haskell,
Albert Maysles. |
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Strictly Film School
Kinoeye |
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Taxi
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MARTIN
SCORSESE (39) |
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1976
| 113m | Col | USA | Psychological Drama, Urban Drama |
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"Taxi
Driver is a film that does not grow dated, or over-familiar. I have
seen it dozens of times. Every time I see it, it works; I am drawn into
Travis' underworld of alienation, loneliness, haplessness and anger." -
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times |
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Selected by
Alexander Walker, Gavin Smith, Thomas Elsaesser,
Quentin Tarantino, Nick
James. |
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Amazon
Senses of Cinema
The Village Voice |
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I
Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb |
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STANLEY
KUBRICK (35) |
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1964
| 93m | BW | UK | Military Comedy, Political Satire |
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"Dr.
Strangelove is, first and foremost, absolutely unflinching...Kubrick's
precise use of camera angles, his uncanny sense of lighting, his
punctuation with close-ups and occasionally with zoom shots, all
galvanize the picture into macabre yet witty reality."
- Stanley Kauffman |
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Alan Rudolph,
John Boorman,
Scott Hicks,
Michael Mann,
Paul Mazursky.
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Derek Malcolm’s Century of Films
Strictly Film School |
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Rear
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ALFRED
HITCHCOCK (45) |
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1954
| 112m | Col | USA | Mystery, Thriller |
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"In an
impressive oeuvre, Rear Window is arguably the most exquisitely
handcrafted feature, because
Hitchcock mastered the spatial as well as
behavioral coordinates of his chosen universe inch by inch."
- Jonathan Rosenbaum |
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Selected by Carrie Rickey, Ty Burr, David Siegel, Ginette Vincendeau,
Kevin MacDonald. |
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Senses of Cinema
Boston Phoenix |
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Contempt |
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JEAN-LUC
GODARD (49) |
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1963
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"It's one
thing for a film to retain every bit of its worth after more than 30
years, but more impressive is the ability to be increasingly relevant
and moving with the passage of time. Such is the case with
Godard's Contempt."
- Kenneth Turan, 1997 |
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Selected by Stig Bjorkman, Ginette Vincendeau, Todd McCarthy, Jonathan
Romney, Philip Strick. |
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Salon
The Criterion Collection |
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It's a Wonderful Life |
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FRANK
CAPRA (43) |
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1946
| 129m | BW | USA | Comedy Drama, Fantasy |
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"What is
remarkable about It's a Wonderful Life is how well it holds up
over the years; it's one of those ageless movies, like Casablanca
or The Third Man, that improves with age."
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times |
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Selected by
Edward Zwick,
Alex Proyas, Jonathan Romney, Mark Kermode, Owen Gleiberman.
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Roger Ebert's Great Movies
Chicago Reader |
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Intolerance |
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D.W.
GRIFFITH (46) |
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1916
| 178m | BW | USA | Historical Epic, Melodrama |
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"Intolerance
launched ideas about associative editing that have been essential to the
cinema ever since, from Soviet montage classics to recent American
experimental films. And in the use of crosscutting and action to
generate suspense, the film's climax hasn't been surpassed."
- Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader |
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Selected by Armond White, Tom Gunning,
Sidney Lumet, Pauline Kael, Michael Sragow. |
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Amazon
Bright Lights Film Journal
Chicago Reader |
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Ugetsu monogatari |
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KENJI
MIZOGUCHI (47) |
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1953
| 96m | BW | Japan | Romantic
Fantasy, Period Film |
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"Mizoguchi's
unique establishment of atmosphere by means of long shot, long takes,
sublimely graceful and unobtrusive camera movement, is everywhere
evident...Ravishingly composed, evocatively beautiful" - Rod
McShane, Time Out |
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Selected by Andrew Sarris, Michel Ciment,
Theo Angelopoulos, Robin Wood,
Tom Gunning. |
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Amazon
Strictly Film School
Senses of Cinema |
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