Kurosawa’s magnum opus is a glorious triumph and the standard-bearer for bravura epic filmmaking, still yet to be surpassed.
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Seven Samurai (1954)
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Tag / 1954
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Story from Chikamatsu, A (1954)
Mizoguchi’s superb late career form continues with this masterful period drama about strict social norms and gender roles, with themes of adultery and romantic passion giving it thematic complexity.
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Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
My personal favourite of all of Hitchcock’s works, this intelligent and suspenseful treatment on scopophilia and scopophobia in relation to gender, gaze theory and paranoia is also one of his finest achievements.
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La strada (1954)
This early work by Fellini is truly one of his finest efforts, told in a fabulist style and with great emotional honesty.
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