Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2
Federico Fellini tells the story of a director, struggling to tell a story he wanted to tell, in the confines of what the production company wants to see.
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The General
A (mostly) accurate account of the theft of The General, a Civil War locomotive, is a solid representation of slapstick comedies of the silent era.
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Metropolis is the story of a wealthy family, Joh Frederson and his son Freder, in control of the labor that makes the city function.
Read more "Metropolis"The Battle of Algiers
The Battle Algiers tells the story of the revolution in Algiers as neutrally as possible, and they did a pretty good job.
Read more "The Battle of Algiers"Mirror
This film is a memory and a dream. It is a series of stressed chain links holding up a piano that dangles over the viewer.
Read more "Mirror"The Passion of Joan of Arc
Sometimes I sit down and watch a film with some preconceived notions of what will entertain me. I had watched the first twenty-odd minutes of The Passion of Joan of Arc several months ago, before I started working through the films on the Sight and Sound list, and I cannot say that I was really […]
Read more "The Passion of Joan of Arc"Pierrot le Fou
Pierrot le Fou is about an asshole who is so unhappy in his marriage he decides he is better off running away with a babysitter to write a novel.
Read more "Pierrot le Fou"Le Mepris
I have no idea where to start when considering Le Mepris. Jean-Luc Godard has challenged me again. I suppose that may be the point of the film, though. Le Mépris (or Contempt) is a 1963 film by Jean-Luc Godard starring Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, and Fritz Lang and is a film adapting a […]
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The film follows Gertrud and her experiences of falling in love with a young musician named Erland Janssen and chooses to leave her husband.
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In Stalker, the main character, played by Aleksandr Kaidanovsky, has a unique gift to navigate through The Zone, and Tarkovsky, through your mind.
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