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Jerry Maguire (1996)
Jerry Maguire (1996) Directed by Cameron Crowe Mostly superficial and rarely profound, but Cameron Crowe’s infectious cheesiness overcomes these shortcomings and makes the most of its limitations with just a lot of […]
While the City Sleeps (1956)
While the City Sleeps (1956) Directed by Fritz Lang Fritz Lang’s tabloid film about tabloid reporters covering a sensational crime story is one of the coldest, most cynical examinations of the world […]
Drive (2011)
Drive (2011) Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn Nicolas Winding Refn’s audiovisual symphony of art and exploitation is abstracted in delicate gestures, subtle gesticulations and poignant expressions that translate the language of cinema […]
The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958) Directed by Terence Fisher Dr. Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) manages to escape his sentence on the guillotine and has now settled in a small town under the pseudonym […]
His Motorbike, Her Island (1986)
His Motorbike, Her Island (1986) Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi If free and easy were a movie, Nobuhiko Obayashi’s radiantly youthful His Motorbike, Her Island would be a good contender to incarnate its […]
Criss Cross (1949)
Criss Cross (1949) Directed by Robert Siodmak The quintessential noir philosophy “I didn’t get the money and I didn’t get the woman” immortalized by the dour fatalistic prose of Billy Wilder’s Double […]
Vera Cruz (1954)
Vera Cruz (1954) Directed by Robert Aldrich Robert Aldrich’s gritty western embraces the laborious task and adopts the much-needed maturity to divorce itself from Fordian romanticism and Hawksian fraternal lyricism by going […]
Salon Kitty (1976)
Salon Kitty (1976) Directed by Tinto Brass Tinto Brass’s infamous Salon Kitty transfigures Nazi iconography and turns it into raunchy pop art, glitzy splendorous erotica that translates the baleful National Socialist ideology […]
The Story of Adele H. (1975)
The Story of Adele H. (1975) Directed by François Truffaut A story of schizophrenic romanticism about the toxic, obsessive love of the daughter of renowned French writer Victor Hugo for an idle, […]
Impractical love and marital controversies in David Lean’s Brief Encounter
– Dr. Alec Harvey: Forgive me? – Laura Jesson: Forgive you for what? – Dr. Alec Harvey: For everything. For meeting you, in the first place. For taking the piece of grit […]
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Blue Rita (1977)
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