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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...
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Jean Vigo
French director Jean Vigo, who died when he was only 29, became an inspiration for several generations of innovative filmmakers. Never has a filmmaker...
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Impromptu
Judy Davis plays the notorious 19th century feminist author George Sand, during a period where she wooed the composer Frederic Chopin, in this sophisticated...
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Pépé le Moko
Jean Gabin plays a famous jewel thief hiding in the Casbah, a criminal neighborhood in Algiers, in this popular French film from 1937. For...