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I hated black and white movies: the case of Citizen Kane |
Orson Welles |
1941 |
drama |
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Sidney, it’s brilliant: 12 Angry Men (1957) |
Sidney Lumet |
1957 |
(courtroom) drama |
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50 years ahead of its time: Some Like It Hot (1959) |
Billy Wilder |
1959 |
(romantic) comedy |
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No one can serve his parents beyond the grave: Tokyo Story (1953) |
Yasujirō Ozu |
1953 |
drama |
東京物語, Tōkyō Monogatari |
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75% of silent movies have been lost, but we still have one found in a mental hospital |
Carl Theodor Dreyer |
1928 |
silent (historical) drama |
La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc |
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Fairytale meets serial killer: Night of the Hunter (1955) |
Charles Laughton |
1955 |
thriller |
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Are We Wrong To Forgive A Murderer? M (1931) |
Fritz Lang |
1931 |
thriller/pre-noir |
M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder |
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What have I been living for all these years? Ikiru (1952) |
Akira Kurosawa |
1952 |
drama |
Ikiru |
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Do prostitutes dream of love? Nights of Cabiria (1957) |
Federico Fellini |
1957 |
drama |
Le notti di Cabiria |
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Take Hitler and stick him on the funny page! His Girl Friday (1940) |
Howard Hawks |
1940 |
screwball comedy |
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2020 Social documentary from 1940: Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath |
John Ford |
1940 |
drama |
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I am not an animal! I am a human being! I am… a man! The Elephant Man (1980) |
David Lynch |
1980 |
historical/surrealist drama |
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“You live and you suffer.” Bicycle Thieves (1948) |
Vittorio De Sica |
1948 |
neorealist drama |
Ladri di biciclette |
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The usual monkey-funeral sequence. Sunset Boulevard (1950) |
Billy Wilder |
1950 |
film noir |
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Where reason ends. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) |
Robert Mulligan |
1962 |
drama |
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Here’s looking at you, kid. Casablanca (1942) |
Michael Curtiz |
1942 |
(romantic) drama |
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I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020) |
Charlie Kaufman |
2020 |
experimental film/psychological thriller |
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A Fistful of Yens: Yojimbo (1961) |
Akira Kurosawa |
1961 |
samurai film |
用心棒, Yōjinbō |
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Dust to dust: Kubrick’s Paths of Glory (1957) |
Stanley Kubrick |
1957 |
anti-war film |
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There has been blood: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (1962) |
Robert Aldrich |
1962 |
psychological thriller/horror |
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Abandon hope all ye who enter here: Los olvidados (1950) |
Luis Buñuel |
1950 |
surrealist drama |
Los olvidados (“The Forgotten Ones”) |
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Conquistador of the Useless: Fitzcarraldo (1982) |
Werner Herzog |
1982 |
epic adventure drama |
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What kind of man are you, don’t you even like dolphins? Zorba the Greek (1964) |
Michael Cacoyannis |
1964 |
comedy-drama |
Αλέξης Ζορμπάς, Alexis Zorbas |
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“I met Death Today. We are Playing Chess”: The Seventh Seal (1957) |
Ingmar Bergman |
1957 |
drama, historical fantasy |
Det sjunde inseglet |
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It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) |
Frank Capra |
1946 |
fantasy drama |
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There is probably no one alive who has seen the 1927 Metropolis |
Fritz Lang |
1927 |
science fiction drama, epic |
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) |
Sergio Leone |
1966 |
(spaghetti) epic western |
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo |
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And there wasn’t light: The Turin Horse (2011) |
Béla Tarr |
2011 |
philosophical drama |
A torinói ló |
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Not quite yet: Brief Encounter (1945) |
David Lean |
1945 |
romantic drama |
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There’s really nothing here for most of us: Pig (2021) |
Michael Sarnoski |
2021 |
drama |
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How’s the despair? The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) |
Martin McDonagh |
2022 |
tragicomedy |
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