After Blow Up (1966) and Zabriskie Point (1970), the indisputable master of philosophical long takes, Michelangelo Antonioni, continued his stylistic evolution in his road movie classic The Passenger (1975), his third film in English.
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The Last Laugh (1924) brought together the greatest German filmmakers of different fields from the golden age of silent film.
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A visitor to Sodankylä in 1988, Krzysztof Zanussi's crisis analysis, broadcast on Finnish television under the title "Välitilinpäätös" (Interim Report), continues this year's programme's shadow theme of unstable relationships.
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A writer must live the content of their work, not just write it. This is the protagonist’s view in the... View Article
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Although there are hundreds if not thousands of film festivals in the world, Peter von Bagh’s documentary about the first... View Article
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Dominique Sanda played key roles in two of Bernardo Bertolucci's films in his 1970s peak period.
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The new millennium begins with this rowdy rockumentary, taking over from where the earlier Sex Pistols mockumentary The Great Rock... View Article
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Based on Giorgio Bassani's autobiographical 1962 novel of the same name, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis tells the story of an affluent Jewish family living in Ferrara at the time of the rise of fascism.
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Guiraudie’s Stranger by the Lake is one of the best films of 2013, even though its distribution has mostly been... View Article
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At the Cannes Film Festival in 2001 Jean-Luc Godard praised three directors: Samira Makhmalbaf, Aki Kaurismäki, and Alain Guiraudie, whose... View Article
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