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Tag / 1950

April 6, 2021October 30, 2021 by Eternality Tan

In a Lonely Place (1950)

  • Criterion Collection, Ray, Nicholas
  • 1950, Nicholas Ray, USA
  • 1 Comment

Humphrey Bogart has never been better in Nic Ray’s atypical noir about love, doubt and violence.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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February 18, 2021October 30, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Orpheus (1950)

  • Cocteau, Jean, Criterion Collection
  • 1950, France, Jean Cocteau
  • 2 Comments

Magical yet haunting, Cocteau’s reimagining of the Orpheus myth in France during the Beatnik 1950s is a cinephile’s treat.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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February 9, 2021February 13, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Rashomon (1950)

  • Criterion Collection, Kurosawa, Akira
  • 1950, Akira Kurosawa, Japan
  • 19 Comments

The film that launched Japanese cinema into serious international reckoning, and quite simply one of Kurosawa’s very best.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

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December 8, 2020May 10, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Flowers of St. Francis, The (1950)

  • Criterion Collection, Rossellini, Roberto
  • 1950, Roberto Rossellini
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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.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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July 18, 2020August 1, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Stage Fright (1950)

  • Hitchcock, Alfred
  • 1950, Alfred Hitchcock, UK
  • 1 Comment

One of Hitchcock’s most underrated works—and it sees the director at his most patient, crafting a tale that builds up spellbindingly.  

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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May 2, 2020September 11, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

  • Wilder, Billy
  • 1950, Billy Wilder, USA
  • 4 Comments

A bold, daring picture that shoots arrows at the Dream Factory that is Hollywood, and arguably Billy Wilder’s finest film.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

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