The great Jacques Tati delivers outrageously inventive comedy visual gags in some of the most elaborate mise-en-scene committed to film.
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Playtime (1967)
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Mon oncle (1958)
The first colour film of Tati is a remarkable and satirical slapstick comedy, acting as a bridge between the doldrums of mechanized modernity and the earthly charms of the old-world.
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Jour de fete (1949)
Tati’s debut feature is a charming little piece about a postman in a countryside town, filled with the kind of visual gags and physical humour that would define his future works.
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F for Fake (1973)
This essayistic documentary (of sorts) is a brilliantly-edited labyrinth of facts, half-truths and lies if you can get into Welles’ sleigh-of-hand.
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Black Girl (1966)
Sembene the trailblazer led African cinema to international recognition with this landmark classic about the despair of a black Senegalese woman made to work for a white French family.
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Confession, The (1970)
Costa-Gavras paints a desolate and powerful political picture of an innocent high-ranking communist party official being interrogated and tortured in service of the frightening if absurd Soviet bloc show trials of the 1950s.
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Zatoichi the Fugitive (1963)
This fourth ‘Zatoichi’ movie sees loyalties put to the test and swordfighting action on a larger scale.
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They Live by Night (1948)
Nicholas Ray’s debut feature is a straightforward lovers-on-the-run ‘romance-noir’ with strong chemistry between the two leads.
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Charulata (1964)
Another extraordinary work by Ray, directed with a profound delicateness that translates into great performances and astonishing visual flourishes.
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Music Room, The (1958)
An extraordinary masterpiece by the great Satyajit Ray that captures the clash between tradition and modernity in a deeply poetic, melancholic (and musical) way.
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