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Ballad of Narayama
Keisuke Kinoshita was the cineaste laureate of Official Japan, his films seeming to pander to his audience rather than challenge it. His best-loved work, Nijûshi
The Saragossa Manuscript
“There should be a ladder under every window. Just in case.” - Busqueros in Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie (The Saragossa Manuscript, 1965) Jan Potocki’s The
Kokoro
Sensei (Masayuki Mori) is first seen standing in a doorway, looking down at his wife as she sits embroidering (1). Shizu (Michiyo Aratama) has opened
Salvatore Giuliano
The trailer for Salvatore Giuliano (1962) begins with a town crier walking down a Sicilian street, banging a drum. This is followed by a group
L’enfer d’Henri-Georges Clouzot
The idea of the lost or broken film is central to cinephilia, but its implications are ambiguous. On the one hand, it allows the film
Retour en Normandie
Memory is also found brilliantly manifested in a large number of madmen. - Dr. Vastel (1) In 1991, documentary film student Alison Millar recorded life
The Third Generation
In Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s first film, Der stadtstreicher (The City Tramp, 1966), the director enters a public pissort and sneers at his derelict anti-hero (Christoph
The Phantom Carriage
Lawyer: “Those are life’s little difficulties, you see!” - August Strindberg, A Dream Play (1901) When Ingmar Bergman wanted to recreate the late 19th century
The Little Tramp in the Big House: The 2010 Killruddery Film Festival
In the silent era, the movies became such a popular phenomenon that special halls were built to house them, nicknamed “picture palaces”. So it is
Konkurs
Alonzo de Monçado: “When a powerful agency is thus exercised on us, – when another undertakes to think, feel, and act for us, we are