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Grand Hotel
MGM’s star-studded 1932 film typifies classic Hollywood style. In what we now call the classic era of Hollywood film, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) had more stars...
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Andrei Rublev
Tarkovsky’s epic film uses the legend of Russia’s great icon painter to explore urgent questions of art, faith, and suffering. On any film buff’s...
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Dodsworth
William Wyler’s 1936 adaptation of a Sinclair Lewis novel deals was unusual for Hollywood: a portrait of a rocky marriage in middle age. Dodsworth,...
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The Conversation
Francis Ford Coppola’s paranoid thriller stars Gene Hackman as an obsessive surveillance expert struggling with his conscience. Since 9/11, the invasion of our privacy...
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Shoeshine
Vittorio De Sica’s groundbreaking 1946 film about the tribulations of two Italian street kids was one of the founding documents of the film movement...
Salvatore Giuliano
Francesco Rosi’s 1962 film uses the life of the titular Mafia bandit as a stepping-off point for an examination of postwar Sicilian history. A...