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Tag / 1948

March 17, 2021October 3, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Red Shoes, The (1948)

  • Criterion Collection, Powell, Michael, Pressburger, Emeric
  • 1948, Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell, UK
  • 2 Comments

A ballet dancer is torn between romance and ambition in one of Powell and Pressburger’s most glorious and ravishing Technicolor triumphs.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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January 14, 2021October 10, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Drunken Angel (1948)

  • Criterion Collection, Kurosawa, Akira
  • 1948, Akira Kurosawa, Japan
  • 1 Comment

A fiery doctor and an ill gangster form a love-hate bond in Kurosawa’s striking first collab with Toshiro Mifune, a tale of changing times amid out-of-fashion masculine codes of honour.    

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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December 14, 2020May 10, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Germany Year Zero (1948)

  • Criterion Collection, Rossellini, Roberto
  • 1948, Germany, Roberto Rossellini
  • 4 Comments

The third film of Rossellini’s heartbreaking neorealist ‘War’ trilogy tackles postwar Germany through the eyes of a boy suffering from material and moral poverty.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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July 18, 2020August 1, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Rope (1948)

  • Hitchcock, Alfred
  • 1948, Alfred Hitchcock, USA
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No matter how many times you see it, it still holds up well as one of Hitchcock’s most morbid and suspenseful works.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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March 20, 2020 by Eternality Tan

They Live by Night (1948)

  • Criterion Collection, Ray, Nicholas
  • 1948, Nicholas Ray, USA
  • 1 Comment

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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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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August 14, 2019May 8, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Spring in a Small Town (1948)

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  • 1948, China, Fei Mu
  • 1 Comment

One might need a historical appreciation of the progressive impact of this Chinese classic to feel its greatness, but as a film in itself, it feels quite bland and uncompelling.

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Rating: 3 out of 5.
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June 5, 2019May 10, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Bicycle Thieves (1948)

  • Criterion Collection, De Sica, Vittorio
  • 1948, Vittorio De Sica
  • 8 Comments

Such is the profound impact and influence of De Sica’s postwar masterwork that it has arguably become a metonym for the Italian neorealist movement.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.
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