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.
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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.
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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 […]
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The film is about the seven samurai that help a small village to withstand an onslaught by bandits. It is one of finest films ever made.
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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.
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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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The film captures a love affair between Claudia and Sandro after the disappearance of Anna who goes missing while vacationing on a yacht.
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I will not, for one hot second, pretend that I can explain to you what 2001: A Space Odyssey means. Consider it a challenge of you can do so to me.
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F.W. Murnau directed Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, a silent film that lives up to its name, makes you question love, and forces giggles at drunken piglets.
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