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Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
Robert Bresson’s tragic masterpiece The Diary of a Country Priest tells the story of a young priest who becomes a failure. The young man’s face looks withdrawn and solemn throughout the story as he becomes strained trying to carry out the responsible duties of a priest at his new local parish; doing his best in […]
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Z (1969)
“Any similarity to real persons and events is not coincidental. It is intentional.” Along with Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers and John Frankenheimer’s The Manchurian Candidate, Costa-Gavra’s Academy Award winning film Z is one of the greatest political thrillers of all time. Z was released in 1969 which was the end of a bleak […]
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Eyes Without a Face (1959)
In Georges Franju’s horror classic Eyes Without a Face there is one key scene that will have you gasp with shock and horror, and when it happens you’ll know exactly what scene I am speaking about. When this film opened in 1960 according to L’ Express, “The spectators dropped like flies,” and when premiering at the Edinburgh Film Festival […]
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Solaris (1972)
Along with the artists of Ingmar Bergman, Carl Dreyer, Robert Bresson and Yasujiro Ozu; the great Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky was an artist that sculpted and created his own universe for himself and himself only. Tarkovsky is one of the most difficult directors to grasp, as he had a profound undercurrent of spirituality and consciously embodied […]
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Amarcord (1973)
If there ever was a film that was made entirely out of nostalgia, joy and straight from the heart it would have to be Federico Fellini’s Amarcord, which was the winner of the Foreign Language Oscar in 1973 and considered by many to be Fellini’s last ‘great film.’ Amarcord means ‘I remember’ which is in the dialect of Rimini […]
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