Kurosawaโs Noh-influenced take on โMacbethโ is elemental, engrossing and one of the greatest screen adaptations of Shakespeare.
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Throne of Blood (1957)
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Category / Criterion Collection
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Orpheus (1950)
Magical yet haunting, Cocteauโs reimagining of the Orpheus myth in France during the Beatnik 1950s is a cinephileโs treat.
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Claire’s Knee (1970)
Arguably Rohmerโs most iconic โmoral taleโโthe plot of an older manโs fetish for a teenage girlโs bare knee makes for great philosophical musings about the nature of lust and love.
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River Called Titas, A (1973)
Now canonized by The Criterion Collection, Ghatakโs beloved tragedy about the poor fishing villages on the banks of the river Titas is meandering to a fault, but is imaginative and poetic.
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I Live in Fear (1955)
One of Kurosawaโs lesser urban dramas that deals with the trauma and anxiety of nuclear annihilation through the eyes of a paranoid old patriarch.
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Seven Samurai (1954)
Kurosawa’s magnum opus is a glorious triumph and the standard-bearer for bravura epic filmmaking, still yet to be surpassed.
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Collectionneuse, La (1967)
Lust and personal resolve collide in Rohmerโs first feature in colour, lensed with warmth and sensuality by Days of Heavenโs Nestor Almendros.
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Dheepan (2015)
This Cannes Palme d’Or winner is a masterful, humanistic attempt at capturing the issue of immigrants, through the perspective of a ‘family’ of Tamils at a transitory point in their lives.
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Rashomon (1950)
The film that launched Japanese cinema into serious international reckoning, and quite simply one of Kurosawaโs very best.
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Stray Dog (1949)
A solid early work by Kurosawa in what is a clever cat-and-mouse chase that leads to an emotional climax.
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