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Tag / 1948

March 17, 2023March 17, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Last Stage, The (1948)

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  • 1948, Poland
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This could very well be the first-ever Holocaust drama, about a group of resilient women who must attempt to survive during the last months of the war, startlingly shot on location at Auschwitz, with many cast and crew who survived the concentration camps. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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November 7, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Hen in the Wind, A (1948)

  • Ozu, Yasujiro
  • 1948, Japan, Yasujiro Ozu
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An underrated postwar effort by Ozu, featuring an indelible performance by Kinuyo Tanaka whose character must do whatever it takes to fulfil her responsibilities as a mother to a sick child. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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March 17, 2021October 3, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Red Shoes, The (1948)

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