Tales of lust and love are intertwined with Pasolini’s astonishing location shooting in this weird concoction of a film that runs a bit too long.
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Arabian Nights (1974)
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Category / Criterion Collection
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L’humanite (1999)
Slow cinema as an anti-police procedural, Dumont’s fascinating if unclassifiable work features a hypnotic Emmanuel Schotte (in his only film role), whose face must be one of the most arresting in all of cinema.
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Immortal Story, The (1968)
The story-within-a-story treatise might feel undercooked but Welles still does a lot within its short runtime, particularly creating the film’s dreamy, intoxicating atmosphere, accompanied by the ethereal music of Erik Satie.
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Canterbury Tales, The (1972)
Not as complete as The Decameron was, this lust-filled, sex-crazed medieval fantasy will probably knock you out with its comic outrageousness.
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Decameron, The (1971)
Pasolini’s first film in his unofficial ‘Trilogy of Life’ is wildly provocative and blasphemous where religion and sex meet at the crossroads of art.
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Gospel According to Matthew, The (1964)
Powerful, poetic and sublime, this could be Pasolini’s magnum opus and arguably the greatest film about the life of Jesus Christ.
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Rolling Thunder Revue (2019)
Scorsese’s entertaining Bob Dylan documentary doesn’t really go very deep but it is an indelible time capsule as it tracks the legendary artiste’s defining 1975 tour across America.
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Police Story 2 (1988)
Chan does his stunts and comedy with aplomb, but this sequel is let down by a wafer-thin plot and poor pacing.
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Fox and His Friends (1975)
A depressing, slow-burning gay drama that only Fassbinder (also fantastic in the lead role) could have conceived—full of pathos and rich in its depiction of the milieu of a class-divided queer community.
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Zatoichi Challenged (1967)
A terrific Zatoichi flick and one of the series’ very best, Misumi’s focus on story and characterisation is the real sleight-of-hand here in this slower but well-paced movie.
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