Humphrey Bogart has never been better in Nic Ray’s atypical noir about love, doubt and violence.
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Humphrey Bogart has never been better in Nic Ray’s atypical noir about love, doubt and violence.
Magical yet haunting, Cocteau’s reimagining of the Orpheus myth in France during the Beatnik 1950s is a cinephile’s treat.
The film that launched Japanese cinema into serious international reckoning, and quite simply one of Kurosawa’s very best.
Rossellini’s work here is masterful, shot in a neorealist if also painterly style, that captures the purity and spirituality of ascetic Roman Catholicism in the early 13th century.
One of Hitchcock’s most underrated works—and it sees the director at his most patient, crafting a tale that builds up spellbindingly.
A bold, daring picture that shoots arrows at the Dream Factory that is Hollywood, and arguably Billy Wilder’s finest film.