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Diary of a Chambermaid
The first of Luis Buñuel's French productions, the director who perhaps most famously slit open the eyeball in UN CHIEN ANDALOU gives us a tale of a domestic worker climbing the social ladder by sleeping with a bunch of men. It doesn't compare to his other film about a devious maid, THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE, but there are a lot more foot fetishism in CHAMBERMAID.
"Sexual perversion repulses me, but I can be attracted to it intellectually." Luis Buñuel
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Marnie
One of Alfred Hitchcock's most divisive films, MARNIE marked a tonal and psychological departure for the Master of Suspense. Met with derision by The New Yorker's Pauline Kael but lauded as essential viewing for all cinephiles by the critic Robin Wood, this was Hitchcock's only post-THE BIRDS collaboration with Tippi Hedren. Oh, and Sean Connery's in it.
"MARNIE is a very difficult film to classify." Alfred Hitchcock
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Dr. Strangelove
When Bosley Crowthers reviewed DR. STRANGELOVE for the New York Times in 1964, he called it "beyond any question the most shattering sick joke I've ever come across." Crowthers was put out to pasture four years later for misinterpreting another American classic, BONNIE AND CLYDE, which, like STRANGELOVE, even 50 years later, feels dangerously new. We think this cold-war satire is Kubrick's sharpest and most concise film, proving how both technical, political, and entertaining a film can be.
"My reaction to it is quite divided, because there is so much about it that is grand, so much that is brilliant and amusing, and much that is grave and dangerous." Bosley Crowthers
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I Am Cuba
Virtually unseen for 30 years, Martin Scorcese and Francis Ford Coppola reintroduced I AM CUBA to audiences at the 1995 Telluride Film Festival. An anti-American propaganda film, made as a Cuban-Soviet co-production, the film has two of the most incomprehensibly complicated tracking shots ever conceived. Russian director Mikhail Kalatozov has never revealed his secrets.
"If you see it, try to figure out how the camera floated down that wall." Roger Ebert
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Bande à part
Both an apolitical investigation of the banal lives of criminals and a set piece in which Anna Karina gets to dance in a silly but completely mesmerizing way, BANDE À PART is undoubtedly one of Jean-Luc Godard's most iconic films while also being one of the most visually conservative. This is the one where everyone runs through the Louvre really fast, but there aren't any jump cuts. It's also the film Quentin Tarantino named his production company after.
"BAND OF OUTSIDERS is less nostalgic for the past than it's heartbroken by the present." Amy Taubin
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The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Made by the openly gay and openly atheistic Pier Paolo Pasolini, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW is an objective, observational story about early Christianity that neither romanticizes nor sentimentalizes its characters. But nor does Pasolini show any disdain for his Saint. He may have satirized Fascism, but he left Christianity in tact.
"THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW is one of the most effective films on a religious theme I have ever seen, perhaps because it was made by a nonbeliever." Roger Ebert
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Scorpio Rising
Avoiding any dialogue, director Kenneth Anger's SCORPIO RISING delves into the sexually charged world of motorcycle gangs. Mythologizing the biker lifestyle in a quasi-documentary format, Anger intercuts film clips of Marlon Brando, Hitler, and Jesus Christ, while accentuating the violence, idolatry, and homoerotic nature of the gangmember's fellowship.
"Anger rapidly inter-cuts images against a score of slyly selected pop tunes, predating the advent of the music video by a decade and a half." Karl Williams
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A Hard Day's Night
Immensely popular in 1964 because it was about some band called The Beatles, A HARD DAY'S NIGHT was an unlikely critical hit. But despite their skepticism, even the most hardened reviewers couldn't escape the film's intoxicating joy. It was too much fun not to like. Even Bosley Crowthers loved it!
"This is going to surprise you—it may knock you right out of your chair—but the new film with those incredible chaps, the Beatles, is a whale of a comedy." Bosley Crowthers
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A Woman in the Dunes
An entomologist collecting bugs in the desert accepts an invitation to stay in a local woman's house. When he wakes up, he realizes he's in an inescapable sand pit. Fuck! This masterpiece of Japanese allegorical realism is in the Criterion Collection for good reason.
"It may be the only film that gets you thinking of a shower while reflecting on symbolism." Mark Chalon Smith
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The Pawnbroker
Sidney Lumet's tale of a New York City pawnbroker who survived Auschwitz was one of the first American films to openly explore the trauma of the Holocaust. It was also one of the first to contain frontal nudity. A masterwork in Lumet's middle ouevre, Rod Steiger is a triumph in the lead role.
"A drama of discovery of the need of man to try to do something for his fellow human sufferers in the troubled world of today." Bosley "Too Many Prepositions" Crowthers
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Before the Revolution
A modern love story (and by modern I mean fraught with existential angst and premonitions of disaster), this early work from Bernardo Bertolucci demonstrates the emotional and technical lessons he learned from his mentor Pier Paolo Pasolini. As the New York Times published, "This is a young man's film, but it has large social references."
"Last night, Philharmonic Hall presented "Before the Revolution," an unheralded Italian feature by an unknown writer-director named Bernardo Bertolucci. He is 23 years old, and his film is a beauty." Eugene Archer
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
The Palme d'Or winner of 1964, THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG is a rare, light-hearted French musical comedy. In an era when Godard, Truffait, and Resnais were exploring the traumas of France's complicity in WWII, Jacques Demy made this delightfully pretty film featuring a singing Catherine Deneuve whom three years later Buñuel would cast as a bourgeois prostitute in BELLE DE JOUR.
"Michel Legrand has supplied a richly tuneful score that serves as a sharp counterpart to help story points and enhance the moods. The bright sets and the excellent color work are also assets." Thanks, Variety
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Mothra vs. Godzilla
Eugene Archer of the New York Times appears to have sort of liked this film in 1964. Or maybe I'm misinterpreting his review when he says: "Mothra's progeny are big worms. They squirt juice all over Godzilla, and it turns into a spider web. Godzilla himself is still breathing fire and swatting his tail upon the Japanese landscape, exactly as he did the last time out."
"One has wings and green eyes and looks like a big bee. The other two are hatched from the first Thing's egg, after quite a bit of worshipful kootch dancing from a pair of foot-tall native goddesses." Eugene "I Swear I'm Not a Racist" Archer
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Fistful of Dollars
Based loosely off of Akira Kurosawa's YOJIMBO, Sergio Leone's first film in the DOLLAR series introduced audiences to Clint Eastwood, and forever immortalized the Spaghetti Western genre. Old Man Crowthers called it an "egregiously synthetic but engrossingly morbid, violent film." And did you know it was shot in Spain?
"It may well be the first western since The Great Train Robbery without a subplot." TIME Magazine
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Red Desert
Unlike the final color Antonioni film that takes place in the desert (yes, I'm talking about you, ZABRISKIE POINT), people generally speak fondly of RED DESERT—in no small part because Monica Vitti is in it. This was Antonioni's last Italian film as well, and in retrospect aches with a sort of pre-consumerist disillusionment. Or whatever.
"Perhaps the most extraordinary and riveting film of Antonioni's entire career; and correspondingly impossible to synopsise." Tom Huddleston
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World Without Sun
Along with Cousteau's other underwater films, WORLD WITHOUT SUN would greatly influence the pallette and tone of Wes Anderson's work (most specifically THE LIFE AQUATIC). This is literally where those red beanies come from.
"Not since THE SILENT WORLD have we seen such magnificent achievements in underwater photography as there are in this handsome color picture, which opened last night at Cinema II." Like we know where that is, Bosley.
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