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Ikiru (1952)
“Sometimes I think of my death. I think of ceasing to be…and it is from these thoughts that Ikiru came.” -Akira Kurosawa Everyday he sits at his desk with stacks of countless documents, and takes a rubber stamp and presses on each one of those documents over and over again. He’s the Public Affairs Section Chief in […]
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Diabolique (1955)
The most popular motives for murder is either money or passion. The goal of course is canceling the existence of another human being but after the act comes the guilt and the clumsiness of trying to get away with it. Perfect murders thankfully occur much more often in fiction then in real life, and like […]
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Passion of Joan of Arc, The (1928)
In a film medium without words, where the artists believed that the essence of a character was what the camera lens captured through their face, to gaze into the eyes of Renee Maria Falconetti, you feel as if she is allowing you to delve into the deep dark depths of her soul. In Carl Dreyer’s silent […]
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Leopard, The (1963)
“We were the leopards, the lions, those who take our place will be jackals hyenas, and all of us – leopards, lions, jackals and sheep – will go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.” Prince Don Fabrizio Corberta is a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity who has a great love for a way of life he understands must […]
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