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152 |
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153 |
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Un
Chien andalou |
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LUIS BUÑUEL
(193) |
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1928 | 20m | BW | France |
Surrealist Film, Avant-garde/Experimental |
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"Neither the title (An
Andalusian Dog) nor anything else in the film was intended to make
sense. It remains the most famous short film ever made, and anyone
halfway interested in the cinema sees it sooner or later, usually
several times." -
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, 2000 |
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Selected by
Ian Christie, Raymond Durgnat, Esteve Riambau, Stefan Grissemann, Peter
Tscherkassky. |
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Amazon
Senses of Cinema
Slant Magazine |
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The
Philadelphia Story |
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GEORGE CUKOR (168) |
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1940 | 112m | BW | USA |
Screwball Comedy, Romantic Comedy |
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"Philip Barry's witty
comedy of manners about a spoiled rich girl (Katharine Hepburn) who
longs for some genuine romance... It checks in a little below
Cukor's 1938
Grant-Hepburn-Barry outing, Holiday, a more tender and less
cluttered variation on the same theme, but second best in this league is
still something special."
- Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader |
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Selected by
Bill Rothman, Owen Gleiberman,
Michael Caton-Jones,
Patrice Leconte,
Ed Buscombe. |
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Amazon
Derek Malcolm's Century of Films
Film Reference |
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154
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155 |
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156 |
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Once Upon a Time in America |
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SERGIO LEONE (167) |
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1984 | 227m | Col | USA |
Crime, Gangster Film |
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"While
Leone's
vision still has a magnificent sweep, the film finally subsides to an
emotional core that is sombre, even elegiac, and which centres on a man
who is bent and broken by time, and finally left with nothing but an
impotent sadness."
- Chris
Peachment, Time Out |
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Selected by
Adrian Martin, Sydney
Pollack, Tony Rayns,
Mike Figgis, Andrew Worsdale. |
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Amazon
Film Reference
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert) |
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Sweet Smell of Success |
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ALEXANDER MACKENDRICK
(142) |
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1957 | 96m | BW | USA |
Drama, Media Satire |
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"Sweet
Smell, which could have been offal, is raised to considerable
dramatic heights by intense acting, taut direction, superb camera work
and, above all, by its whiplash dialogue." -
Time, 1957 |
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Selected by
Terence Davies,
Scott McGehee, Philip Kemp,
James Mangold,
Julien Temple. |
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Amazon
Images Journal
Film Reference |
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See Also:
250 Quintessential
Noir Films |
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The
Mother and the Whore |
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JEAN EUSTACHE (221) |
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1973 | 210m | BW | France
| Psychological Drama, Urban Drama |
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"The Mother and
the Whore has the energy and quick, almost surreptitious
illumination of the best improvised work. The low-contrast black and
white photography gives the film a cool, astringent look that cuts
nicely against the gathering force of the script." - Jay Cocks, Time,
1974 |
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Selected by
Richard Linklater,
Mark Cousins, John
Waters, Quim Casas, Mark Peranson. |
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Amazon
Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
Strictly Film School |
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157
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158 |
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159 |
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The
Gospel According to St. Matthew |
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PIER PAOLO PASOLINI (138) |
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1964 | 135m | BW | France-Italy | Drama, Religious Drama |
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"Pasolini's
is one of the most effective films on a religious theme I have ever
seen, perhaps because it was made by a nonbeliever who did not preach,
glorify, underline, sentimentalize or romanticize his famous story, but
tried his best to simply record it." - Roger Ebert, Chicago
Sun-Times, 2004 |
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Selected by
Scott Hicks,
Jonathan Glazer, Mike
Hodges, Ulrich Seidl, Rajko Grlic. |
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Amazon
Derek Malcolm's Century of Films
The New York Times |
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The
Band Wagon |
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VINCENTE MINNELLI
(210) |
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1953 | 112m | Col | USA |
Musical Comedy, Backstage Musical |
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"The whole point about
The Band Wagon, and one which sometimes makes people underrate it,
was the way everything seems to mesh so seamlessly--almost effortlessly,
in fact. That was due to
Minnelli, whose flair and
imagination... was matched by his almost perfect control." -
Derek Malcolm, The
Guardian, 1999 |
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Selected by
D.A. Pennebaker, Ed Buscombe,
Julien Temple, David Ansen, Al Clark. |
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Amazon
Roger Ebert's Great Movies
Senses of Cinema |
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160
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161 |
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162 |
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Celine and Julie Go Boating |
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JACQUES RIVETTE (135) |
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1974 | 192m | Col | France
| Surrealist Film, Avant-garde/Experimental |
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"This
epic is best appreciated by surrendering to its flow of mesmerising
images and ideas... A charming and
beautifully planned drama that resolves nothing - and doesn't need to." -
David Parkinson, Empire
Magazine |
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Selected by
Ty Burr, Michael Atkinson,
Dennis Lim, Monte
Hellman, Tom Milne. |
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Amazon
Senses of Cinema
Slant Magazine |
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163
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164 |
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165 |
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Don't Look Now |
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NICOLAS ROEG
(174) |
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1973 | 110m | Col | UK |
Psychological Thriller, Supernatural Thriller |
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"Nicolas
Roeg's 1973 film remains one
of the great horror masterpieces, working not with fright, which is
easy, but with dread, grief and apprehension. Few films so successfully
put us inside the mind of a man who is trying to reason his way free
from mounting terror."
- Roger
Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, 2002 |
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Selected by
Mark Kermode, Scott Hicks,
Antonia Bird,
Neil Young (critic), Michael Koresky. |
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Amazon
Screen Online
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Sullivan's Travels |
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PRESTON STURGES
(163) |
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1941 | 91m | BW | USA |
Comedy, Satire |
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"The sweetest, most
generous-hearted satire of the Hollywood film industry the town has ever
produced, Sullivan’s Travels was the fourth of the eight
films Preston Sturges
made during his astonishingly prolific streak between 1940 and 1944." -
Todd McCarthy, Criterion Collection |
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Selected by
Richard Armstrong, Richard Schickel, Daniel Talbot, David Meeker, Edna
Fainaru. |
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Amazon
Senses of Cinema
Film Reference |
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166
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167 |
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168 |
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Cries and Whispers |
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INGMAR BERGMAN (148) |
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1972 | 106m | Col | Sweden
| Drama, Family Drama |
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"As a secular story,
without the religious symbolism,
Bergman’s film still registers
powerfully, and contains more raw suffering and, for some, more horror
than The Exorcist. "
- David
Ng, Images Journal |
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Selected by
Michael
Winterbottom,
Terence Davies, Jonathan Glazer,
Fernando Martin Pena, Santosh Sivan. |
|
Amazon
Senses of Cinema
Criterion Collection Essay |
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller |
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ROBERT ALTMAN
(124) |
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1971 | 121m | Col | USA |
Drama, Revisionist Western |
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"Like all things that
are beautiful and unalterably sad, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, by its
final scene -- the hired guns tracking McCabe through a quiet,
persistent blizzard -- achieves a deep sense of peace."
- Charles Taylor, Salon Magazine, 1997 |
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Selected by
Tim Robbins,
Alan Rudolph,
Gore Verbinski,
Terrence Rafferty, Noel Murray. |
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Amazon
Slant Magazine
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert) |
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169
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170 |
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171 |
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La
Jetée |
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CHRIS MARKER (178) |
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1962 | 29m | BW | France |
Science Fiction, Avant-garde/Experimental |
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"One of the best of
all SF films is this haunting, apocalyptic 27-minute French short by the
great Chris Marker
about a man sent into the future--a story that is told almost
exclusively in still frames."
-
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader |
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Selected by
Dennis Lim, Mira Nair,
Glenn Myrent, Pier Marton, Anchalee Chaiworaporn. |
|
Amazon
Senses of Cinema
Criterion Collection Essay |
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Days of Heaven |
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TERRENCE MALICK (165) |
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1978 | 95m | Col | USA |
Rural Drama, Romantic Drama |
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"Days of Heaven is
above all one of the most beautiful films ever made.
Malick's
purpose is not to tell a story of melodrama, but one of loss. His tone
is elegiac. He evokes the loneliness and beauty of the limitless Texas
prairie." - Roger
Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, 1997 |
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Selected by
Michel Chion, Gavin Smith, Donna Bowman, Claus Philipp, Pawil
Pawlikowski. |
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Amazon
Criterion Collection Essay
Village Voice |
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Brazil |
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TERRY GILLIAM (162) |
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1985 | 131m | Col | UK |
Science Fiction, Satire |
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"Terry
Gilliam's ferociously creative black comedy is filled with
wild tonal contrasts, swarming details, and unfettered visual invention
-- every shot carries a charge of surprise and delight."
- Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader |
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Selected by
Mark Kermode, Alexei Balabanov, Ernest R. Dickerson, Vadim Jean, Lourdes
Portillo. |
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Amazon
Images Journal
Slate Magazine |
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172
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173 |
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174 |
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Close-Up |
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ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
(157) |
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1989 | 93m | Col | Iran |
Docudrama, Courtroom Drama |
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"Werner
Herzog has called this the greatest of all documentaries
about filmmaking, and he may not be far off--if only because no other
film does more to interrogate certain aspects of the documentary form
itself. "
- Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader |
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Selected by
Jean-Michel Frodon, Tony Rayns, Ed Lachman, Hamid Dabashi, M.K.
Raghavendra. |
|
Amazon
Strictly Film School
Senses of Cinema |
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The
Maltese Falcon |
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JOHN HUSTON (158) |
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1941 | 100m | BW | USA |
Mystery, Film Noir |
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"Don't miss The Maltese
Falcon if your taste is for mystery fare. It's the slickest exercise
in cerebration that has hit the screen in many months, and it is also
one of the most compelling nervous-laughter provokers yet."
- Bosley Crowther, The New York Times, 1941 |
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Selected by
Charles Burnett,
Richard Schickel, Nasreem Munni Kabir, George Armitage, Charles Champlin. |
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Amazon
Roger Ebert's Great Movies
Film Reference |
|
See Also:
250 Quintessential
Noir Films |
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The
Travelling Players |
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THEO ANGELOPOULOS (179) |
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1975 | 230m | Col | Greece
| Drama, Political Drama |
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"A masterpiece in a dozen
different ways, The Traveling Players is so complex that a critic
attempting to explain it is in the same quandary as the proverbial blind
men discovering an elephant."
- Henry
Sheehan, 1990 |
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Selected by
Michel Ciment, Ulrich Gregor, Dan Georgakas, Dan Fainaru, Martin McLoone. |
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Amazon
Derek Malcolm's Century of Films
Time Out |
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175
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176 |
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177 |
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Pulp Fiction |
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QUENTIN TARANTINO (147) |
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1994 | 154m | Col | USA | Crime Comedy, Ensemble Film |
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"A
spectacularly entertaining piece of pop culture, Pulp Fiction is
the American Graffiti of violent crime pictures... On any number
of important levels, Pulp Fiction is a startling, massive
success."
- Todd McCarthy, Variety, 1994 |
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Selected by
Cameron Crowe,
Danny Boyle,
Alexei Balabanov, Susan Seidelman, M.K. Raghavendra. |
|
Amazon
Roger Ebert's Great Movies
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Monsieur Verdoux |
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CHARLES CHAPLIN (172) |
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1947 | 123m | BW | USA |
Black Comedy, Crime Comedy |
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"Monsieur Verdoux
is an engrossingly wry and paradoxical film, screamingly funny in
places, sentimental in others, sometimes slow and devoted to an
unusually serious and sobering argument." - Bosley Crowther, The
New York Times, 1964 |
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Selected by
Gavin Lambert, Jean Douchet, Mrinal Sen, Pascal Merigeau, Elliott Stein. |
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Amazon
Chicago Reader (Dave Kehr)
Slant Magazine |
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178
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179 |
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180 |
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The
World of Apu |
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SATYAJIT RAY (164) |
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1959 | 103m | BW | India |
Drama, Family Drama |
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"Mr.
Ray, whose grasp of the cinema medium was uncertain in
Pather Panchali, his first film, demonstrates in The World of Apu
that he is master of a complex craft and style."
- Bosley Crowther, The New York Times, 1960 |
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Selected by
Bill
Rothman, Daniel Talbot, Joseph Strick, Mary Harron, Simon Louvish. |
|
Amazon
Roger Ebert's Great Movies
Strictly Film School |
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Badlands |
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TERRENCE MALICK (183) |
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1973 | 95m | Col | USA |
Crime Drama, Road Movie |
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"One of the most
impressive directorial debuts ever... What distinguishes the film,
beyond the superb performances of Sheen and Spacek, the use of music,
and the luminous camerawork by
Tak Fujimoto, is
Malick's
unusual attitude towards psychological motivation."
- Geoff Andrew, Time Out |
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Selected by
David Siegel, Adrian Martin,
Hal Hartley, Vincent Canby, Thomas
Allenbach. |
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Amazon
Senses of Cinema
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert) |
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The
Music Room |
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SATYAJIT RAY (171) |
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1958 | 95m | BW | India |
Drama, Psychological Drama |
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"Ray's
fourth film, a wonderfully evocative anecdote about an elderly
aristocrat, slowly dying amid the crumbling splendours of the past, who
decides to defy the egalitarian age that is encroaching... Slow, rapt
and hypnotic, it is - given some appreciation of Indian music - a
remarkable experience. " -
Tom Milne, Time Out |
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Selected by
Charles Tesson, Derek Malcolm, Gilles Jacob,
Mira Nair, Alain Masson. |
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Amazon
Derek Malcolm's Century of Films
San Francisco Chronicle |
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181
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182 |
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183 |
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Trouble in Paradise |
|
ERNST LUBITSCH (169) |
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| 1932
| 83m | BW | USA | Sophisticated Comedy, Romantic Comedy |
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"Trouble in
Paradise is the most fondly memorable—if rarely seen—Hollywood
screwball comedy. Its combination of suaveness, hilarity, and sexiness
has had a mighty influence." -
Armond White, Criterion
Collection |
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Selected by Todd McCarthy, James Naremore, Richard
Schickel, Pascal Merigeau, David Ansen. |
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Amazon
San Francisco Chronicle
Images Journal |
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