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Modern Times (1936)
To make a silent film in 1931 with City Lights four years after the first sound film The Jazz Singer, was a challenge. To make another in 1936 with Modern Times nearly a decade after audiences were now used to sound films, appeared downright perverse. Now audiences were used to the rapid dialog sound comedies of the […]
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L’ Avventura (1960)
Michelangelo Antonioni’s masterpiece L’ Avventura became famous because it was said that nothing ever happened in the film. It was a search for a person that didn’t have a resolution and a love story that didn’t have a conclusion. L’ Avventura in English means ‘The Adventure,’ which is very ironic since little adventure really takes place. The premiere of L’Avventura, […]
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