An old man who learns of his stomach cancer attempts to make the most out of his numbered days in Kurosawa’s powerful examination of body and soul, living and dying, and the societal conditioning of the common man in misjudging others.
Fellini’s first solo feature as director would lay some of the artistic groundwork for his career in this sporadically entertaining comedy about a newlywed’s rendezvous with a ‘romantic ideal’ on her honeymoon in Rome.
Shakespeare meets independent cinema of the highest order in Welles’ brilliant and vital take on the tragic story of the Moor of Venice.
Huston’s Venice Silver Lion-winning costume drama focuses much more on disabled French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec than the infamous Paris nightclub that he frequently visits in this ruminative take on love and loneliness.
Mizoguchi’s chronicle of one woman’s descent from nobility to prostitution is emotionally intense and terribly bleak.
A classic of Italian neorealist cinema that also marked the movement’s untimely end, De Sica’s work here about an old man and his dog can be heartbreaking (or to some, dreary) to a fault.
Continue reading →For fans, this lesser Ozu is still worth a pop in what is a leisurely-paced, relatively loosely-plotted, if slightly overdrawn drama about a middle-aged couple’s marital crisis.
Eternality Tan 