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Platform
The new millennium was launched in Chinese cinema by this 2000 film by Jia Zhangke, in which the story of a group of young...
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Ashes and Diamonds
Polish director Andrzej Wajda examines the dashed hopes of postwar Poland in this story of a partisan fighter (Zbigniew Cybulski) caught between the ideals...
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The Magnificent Ambersons
Orson Welles’ 1942 film portraying the decline of an aristocratic American family was marred by studio interference, but is still one of the great...
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The Red Shoes
Michael Powell’s 1948 drama, about a ballerina torn between love and career, is possibly the most visually beautiful ever made. If one were asked...
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The Awful Truth
Hollywood loved making comedies about divorce, and Leo McCarey’s 1937 film, starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, was the best of the bunch. Recently...
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Point of Order!
Emile de Antonio’s 1964 documentary about the Army-McCarthy hearings of ten years earlier, was one of the first directly political documentaries of any scope...