Category: Classics & Hitchcock
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Scenes From a Marriage
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Read more: Scenes From a MarriageAs one essay I read stated, Bergman has moved from “Does God exist? to Does love exist?”
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Gunga Din
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Read more: Gunga DinWhite Man’s Burden…
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The Wages of Fear (1953)
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Read more: The Wages of Fear (1953)Humanity is no match for the power of hunger.
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C’mon, Billy
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Read more: C’mon, BillyC’mon Billy, Come to me, You know I’m waiting, I love you endlessly, C’mon Billy, You’re the only one… These mania-infused lyrics are from a glorious PJ Harvey paean and it’s only when she goes on to reveal ‘having his son’ that I twig she isn’t singing about the late, great Billy Wilder. But even…
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Starring Debuts #26: Max von Sydow in The Seventh Seal (1957)
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Read more: Starring Debuts #26: Max von Sydow in The Seventh Seal (1957)We’re film fans, right? This means we’ve occasionally gotta get out of our comfort zone and give the likes of the mopey-as-fuck Ingmar Bergman a go. It can’t all be Arnie, Scorpio and King Kong breaking a dinosaur’s jaws, can it? And so to fourteenth-century Sweden. A bloke has come home from fighting the Crusades…
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The Outlaw (1943)
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Read more: The Outlaw (1943)Over 80 years after its release, perhaps the best-known thing about Howard Hughes’s The Outlaw is still the controversy over how much (or how little, by today’s standards) of Jane Russell’s breasts are on display. Hughes was forced by the Hollywood Production Code Administration to remove about 30 seconds of offending footage, but even after…
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The Lost Weekend
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Read more: The Lost WeekendThe Wet House provides a judgment-free atmosphere for drunks, but there was no such thing in the world of this ground-breaking movie that was made in 1945.
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Sunset Blvd. (1950)
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Read more: Sunset Blvd. (1950)Whom other than the broke, down-on-his-luck writer could tell the story of granduers past and golden eras faded into weed-choked shadows of their former grace.
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Army of Shadows (1969)
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Read more: Army of Shadows (1969)On its surface, this is a precise examination of the French Resistance, shot in a documentary style on location.
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Russian Ark (2002)
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Read more: Russian Ark (2002)95 minute unbroken shot Russian film. Breathtaking Beauty. The Results? Empty theaters, indifference, deathly silence.