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Hard to be a God – 2013, Aleksei German
by Allan Fish (Russia 2013 177m) DVD1/2 Aka. Trudno byt bogom Earth minus 800 p Viktor Izvekov, Leonid Yarmolnik d Aleksei German w Aleksei German, Svetlana Karmalita novel Arkadiy Strugatskiy, Boris...
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8. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
by Judy Geater It seems like such a small story. Yet, through the theft of a bike, this powerful Italian neo-realist film, directed by Vittorio De Sica, shows up the struggle which was the reality of...
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7. The Red Balloon (1956)
by Sachin Gandhi A balloon floating up in the sky still manages to catch everyone’s attention! Some will express sadness at seeing the balloon floating away, at the thought that there is a child...
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6. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
by D. H. Schleicher The singer in the opening of Charles Laughton’s 1955 classic The Night of the Hunter invites viewers to dream along with its young protagonist, John Harper (Billy Chapin), but what...
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5. The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) directed by Víctor Erice
by Duane Porter “Once upon a time, somewhere on the Castilian plain, around 1940,” a truck rolls past the signpost for Hoyuelos. Excited children gather around it as it pulls to a stop. “The movie’s...
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4. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
by Brandie Ashe I’ll start by admitting some pretty heavy bias went into my selection of the top film on my ballot for this countdown. I was born and raised in Alabama, where two texts tend to reign...
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The Excommunication of Meryl Streep
by Allan Fish There’s perhaps only one thing more predictable than the love of Steven Spielberg in modern film buff circles; the deification of Meryl Streep. Or at least maybe there’s something else...
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Confidential Report – 1955, Orson Welles
by Allan Fish (France/Spain 1955 105m) DVD1/2 Aka. Mr Arkadin Paying twice for the same thing p Louis Dolivet, Orson Welles d/w Orson Welles novel “Mr Arkadin” by Orson Welles ph Jean Bourgoin ed...
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The Walk, Comic Con Convention and Final Days of Greatest...
by Sam Juliano Columbus Day. If you’re lucky you’ll get a day off from work. Otherwise it is business as usual, though it seems the weather is mighty fine all over, and the fall season has set in....
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3. Pather Panchali (1955)
By Richard R.D. Finch The raw material of the cinema is life itself,” wrote Satyajit Ray in a magazine article in 1948, adding that “the truly Indian film should…look for its material in the more...
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2. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
By Dean Treadway Just to try something a little different, I offer: 100 Things I Love About Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander (in no particular order): It was my big-screen introduction to...
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JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE’S ‘LEON MORIN, PRIEST’“My soul felt like a brothel”
© 2015 by James Clark You have to be careful, in general, when endeavouring to track a filmmaker’s understanding of life as brought to us in his or her work. When, in particular, you come to a...
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1. The 400 Blows (1959)
by Sam Juliano French film titles generally persevere over their English counterparts more than those in any other language, but Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows is the clear preference over Les...
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Greatest Childhood/Adolescent countdown and looking ahead
Screen cap from Elem Klimov’s 1985 Russian masterpiece “Come and See” which was examined in a stunning 4,600 word essay by Jamie Uhler, which was the longest review of the entire countdown Screen cap...
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Confidential Report – 1955, Orson Welles
by Allan Fish (France/Spain 1955 105m) DVD1/2 Aka. Mr Arkadin Paying twice for the same thing p Louis Dolivet, Orson Welles d/w Orson Welles novel “Mr Arkadin” by Orson Welles ph Jean Bourgoin ed...
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The Walk, Comic Con Convention and Final Days of Greatest...
by Sam Juliano Columbus Day. If you’re lucky you’ll get a day off from work. Otherwise it is business as usual, though it seems the weather is mighty fine all over, and the fall season has set in....
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3. Pather Panchali (1955)
By Richard R.D. Finch The raw material of the cinema is life itself,” wrote Satyajit Ray in a magazine article in 1948, adding that “the truly Indian film should…look for its material in the more...
View ArticleClik here to view.
2. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
By Dean Treadway Just to try something a little different, I offer: 100 Things I Love About Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander (in no particular order): It was my big-screen introduction to...
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JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE’S ‘LEON MORIN, PRIEST’“My soul felt like a brothel”
© 2015 by James Clark You have to be careful, in general, when endeavouring to track a filmmaker’s understanding of life as brought to us in his or her work. When, in particular, you come to a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
1. The 400 Blows (1959)
by Sam Juliano French film titles generally persevere over their English counterparts more than those in any other language, but Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows is the clear preference over Les...
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