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4/4
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90%
|
Voyage in Italy (1992) |
"
Befitting a filmmaker who defined as well as challenged the definition of Italian neorealism, it unfolds simultaneously as thorny narrative and profoundly personal documentary."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 29, 2013
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——
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Bluebeard (Landru) () |
"
Chabrol's study is a jaundiced waltz, a poisoned heart under a perfumed surface, a rich Ealing vein mined Gallically"
—
CinePassion
Posted Apr 22, 2013
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|
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100%
|
The Roaring Twenties (1939) |
"
If Raoul Walsh didn't invent the Warners style, then he certainly brought it to its electric apex"
—
CinePassion
Posted Apr 14, 2013
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83%
|
Night Nurse (1931) |
"
A rough-hewn marvel"
—
CinePassion
Posted Apr 12, 2013
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——
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Vinyl (1965) |
"
Warhol's catatonic rough-trade parody"
—
CinePassion
Posted Apr 8, 2013
|
|
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82%
|
La Maschera del demonio (Black Sunday) (House of Fright) (Mask of the Demon) (1960) |
"
Swirling chiaroscuro, viscous rhapsody"
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CinePassion
Posted Apr 8, 2013
|
|
|
94%
|
Stray Dog (Nora inu) (1963) |
"
Driving forward even as the characters wander in circles, Kurosawa's camera is all swift pans and hard curves, one sinewy composition after another"
—
CinePassion
Posted Apr 1, 2013
|
|
|
94%
|
Los Olvidados (The Young and the Damned) (1952) |
"
Bowery Boys and Pinturas Negras, Luis Buñuel's lower depths"
—
CinePassion
Posted Mar 25, 2013
|
|
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100%
|
Bab el hadid (Cairo Station) (The Iron Gate) (1958) |
"
Egyptian censors saw only the tawdriness and despair of the work, and Chahine's film was banned for years rather than heralded as the excoriating classic it is."
—
CinePassion
Posted Mar 18, 2013
|
|
|
92%
|
Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler - Ein Bild der Zeit) (Dr. Mabuse, King of Crime) (1922) |
"
Visions, sets and even words come alive in Lang's epic"
—
CinePassion
Posted Mar 15, 2013
|
|
|
100%
|
The Steel Helmet (1951) |
"
As visceral as any movie ever made, this is also Fuller's portrait of the collapsing mind, a race into madness"
—
CinePassion
Posted Mar 10, 2013
|
|
|
83%
|
Svengali (1931) |
"
A peculiar, affecting ode to the tragic lecher"
—
CinePassion
Posted Mar 9, 2013
|
|
|
20%
|
Lo Squartatore di New York (The New York Ripper) (1982) |
"
Fulci's most corrosive vision"
—
CinePassion
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
|
98%
|
Mean Streets (1973) |
"
Scorsese exalts cinema as the mediator of reality, memory and reverie, the demonic art that enthralls the church boy"
—
CinePassion
Posted Mar 3, 2013
|
|
|
100%
|
The Last Command (1928) |
"
The breadth of Josef von Sternberg's satire is laid out in the passage at William Powell's office, where the elegant axis is complemented by sang-froid gagwork."
—
CinePassion
Posted Feb 27, 2013
|
|
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100%
|
Osaka Elegy (Woman of Osaka) (Naniwa erejî) (1979) |
"
The caustic social critic rather than the transcendental mythmaker, Kenji Mizoguchi arranges space exquisitely and fills it acerbically."
—
CinePassion
Posted Feb 26, 2013
|
|
|
60%
|
Frau im Mond (By Rocket to the Moon) (Woman in the Moon) (1929) |
"
As opposed to the furious ellipsis of Spies, the launchpad countdown does not arrive until after the midway point, Lang's intro leisurely laying in human detail to contrast with the sense of dwarfing technology to follow."
—
CinePassion
Posted Feb 25, 2013
|
|
|
65%
|
Rabid (1979) |
"
Cinema as a sustained bout of fever, a melancholy defense of Pandora"
—
CinePassion
Posted Feb 24, 2013
|
|
|
95%
|
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) |
"
The greatest of all British films, the greatest film about Britishness"
—
CinePassion
Posted Feb 18, 2013
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——
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The Strange Woman (1946) |
"
Despite its higher budget and starrier cast, the tale is no less mad than Ulmer's Skid Row hallucinations"
—
CinePassion
Posted Feb 11, 2013
|
|
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——
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Machine-Gun Kelly (Machine Gun Kelly) (1958) |
"
Roger Corman's Macbeth, morbid and raffish"
—
CinePassion
Posted Jan 25, 2013
|
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——
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The Dawn Patrol (Flight Commander) (1930) |
"
A thoroughgoing blueprint for Hawksian valor"
—
CinePassion
Posted Jan 21, 2013
|
|
|
97%
|
In a Lonely Place (1950) |
"
Bogie the superstar laid bare by Nicholas Ray's scrutiny, the legendary persona eroded to reveal the desolating macho violence"
—
CinePassion
Posted Jan 21, 2013
|
|
|
92%
|
Händler der vier Jahreszeiten (The Merchant of Four Seasons) (2002) |
"
An unforgettable cantata, raspy and plangent, every composition attuned to circles of torment and frustration"
—
CinePassion
Posted Jan 14, 2013
|
|
|
——
|
Stone (Kamen) (1992) |
"
This handsome, expertly curated collection rescues from certain fate three of Russian master Aleksandr Sokurov's greatest films."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 9, 2013
|
|
|
100%
|
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (Ladies of the Park) (1964) |
"
The blend of flame and frost in Maria Casares' gaze is where Bresson and Cocteau really meet and meld"
—
CinePassion
Posted Jan 9, 2013
|
|
|
89%
|
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) |
"
Altman's warmest, most lyrical masterwork doesn't so much scrap the mythology off the Western as invent a folkloric form of its own"
—
CinePassion
Posted Dec 17, 2012
|
|
|
97%
|
Kiss Me Deadly (1955) |
"
Aldrich's annihilating masterpiece, one of the decade's key works"
—
CinePassion
Posted Dec 10, 2012
|
|
|
——
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I Vinti, (Youth and Perversion) (The Vanquished) (1953) |
"
Antonioni's blade-sharp compositions chronicle the war's amoral fallout in three different countries"
—
CinePassion
Posted Nov 25, 2012
|
|
|
60%
|
Champagne (1928) |
"
A profusion of kinetic visual jests "
—
CinePassion
Posted Nov 19, 2012
|
|
|
——
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Præsidenten (The President) (1919) |
"
Dreyer's first film is a painterly tale of sins repeated and injustices perpetuated"
—
CinePassion
Posted Nov 18, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
100%
|
Ningen Johatsu (A Man Vanishes) (1967) |
"
The earthiest of Japanese New Wave directors, Shohei Imamura goes fascinatingly meta in this 1967 hybrid of investigative tract and ruminative experiment."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 12, 2012
|
|
|
100%
|
Repulsion (1997) |
"
A peerless Freudian nightmare, frequently revisited but seldom matched in its desire and terror, its visual-aural flow, and its queasy voyeuristic pleasure in seeing a frosty princess picking at her own skin"
—
CinePassion
Posted Oct 29, 2012
|
|
|
67%
|
Lawless (2012) |
"
Very watered-down hooch "
—
CinePassion
Posted Sep 4, 2012
|
|
|
78%
|
Take This Waltz (2012) |
"
Sins and all, I ended up liking Sarah Polley's sophomore directorial effort for its unresolved, warm-to-the-touch emotions"
—
CinePassion
Posted Sep 4, 2012
|
|
|
51%
|
Savages (2012) |
"
Combustible, chaotic, weirdly likable snapshot of new-millennium idylls and infernos"
—
CinePassion
Posted Sep 4, 2012
|
|
|
58%
|
Red Hook Summer (2012) |
"
Spike Lee's least crabby vignette in a decade"
—
CinePassion
Posted Sep 4, 2012
|
|
|
80%
|
Magic Mike (2012) |
"
A vanilla panorama of beefcake for rent"
—
CinePassion
Posted Sep 4, 2012
|
|
|
64%
|
Cosmopolis (2012) |
"
A master filmmaker's rumination on capitalism as a vision of diseased titanium"
—
CinePassion
Posted Sep 4, 2012
|
|
|
94%
|
Moonrise Kingdom (2012) |
"
The divide between childhood and adolescence as a nature stroll"
—
CinePassion
Posted Sep 4, 2012
|
|
|
86%
|
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) |
"
Post-Katrina wreckage as libertarian playground"
—
CinePassion
Posted Sep 4, 2012
|
|
|
87%
|
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) |
"
Every shred of wit, mystery and humanity is pummeled out, leaving only a bullish mishmash of zeitgeisty anxiety"
—
CinePassion
Posted Sep 4, 2012
|
|
|
95%
|
42nd Street (1933) |
"
The careful building of the eye-level proscenium that's exploded by swooping cinematic music"
—
CinePassion
Posted Sep 2, 2012
|
|
|
94%
|
The Blood of a Poet (1930) |
"
Cocteau approaches cinema as a parlor riddle, a hermaphroditic catalogue, the ultimate medium for the aesthete's search for the ineffable and the sublime"
—
CinePassion
Posted Aug 12, 2012
|
|
|
——
|
I bambini ci guardano (The Children Are Watching Us) (1944) |
"
The painful and necessary maturation of a child and of Italian cinema"
—
CinePassion
Posted Aug 12, 2012
|
|
|
——
|
Le Voyage Imaginair () |
"
Clair's tribute to Méliès, a netherworld of sudden and continuous transfigurations"
—
CinePassion
Posted Aug 12, 2012
|
|
|
100%
|
The Sorcerers (1967) |
"
Michael Reeves's heady excoriation of voyeurism"
—
CinePassion
Posted Aug 7, 2012
|
|
|
90%
|
Way Down East (1920) |
"
One of Griffith's most rousing visions of film as visual-emotional ebb and flow, connection and rupture"
—
CinePassion
Posted Aug 6, 2012
|
|
|
100%
|
Handle with Care (The Great American Citizen's Band) (1977) |
"
A vivacious poem of American restlessness"
—
CinePassion
Posted Jul 30, 2012
|
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