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L’Argent
Robert Bresson’s 1983 film, his last, portrays the inexorable descent into inhumanity that begins with a simple dishonest act. The great French director Robert...
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Casque d’Or
The passion and mores of a lost era, turn-of-the-century France, is recreated in Jacques Becker’s great romantic melodrama from 1952. One of the more...
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The Fire Within
An alcoholic contemplates suicide in Louis Malle’s devastating 1963 film about the human desire for meaning. Louis Malle was a director of astonishing range....
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Salesman
A study of Boston-area Bible salesmen was the breakthrough documentary of the brothers Albert and David Maysles. The Maysles brothers, Albert and David, pioneered...
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Topsy-Turvy
Topsy-Turvy, a British film that came out in 2000, is about Gilbert and Sullivan, and how they came to create their masterpiece, The Mikado....
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Meet Me in St. Louis
Vincente Minnelli’s musical slice of Americana was his first starring his future wife Judy Garland. In addition to being a film snob, it would...