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Tag / 1955

July 6, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Godzilla Raids Again (1955)

  • Criterion Collection
  • 1955, Godzilla, Japan
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This skippable sequel sees Godzilla amusingly battling with a monster for the first time, laying the 1v1 blueprint for the future, but production problems and a rushed job mar the experience. 

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Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

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October 30, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955)

  • Criterion Collection, Zeman, Karel
  • 1955, Czechoslovakia, Karel Zeman
  • 1 Comment

Natural prehistory comes to life in a series of special effects ‘attractions’ as Zeman’s charming adventure sees four boys enter a cave that transports them back to millions of years ago.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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September 21, 2022September 21, 2022 by Eternality Tan

To Catch a Thief (1955)

  • Hitchcock, Alfred
  • 1955, Alfred Hitchcock, USA
  • 2 Comments

An ex-thief must clear his name in this touristy if somewhat middling Hitchcock film set in Southern France, but the scenery is amazing to look at, and the flirtatious energy between Cary Grant and Grace Kelly imbues it with mild erotic tension.   

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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August 9, 2022August 29, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Generation, A (1955)

  • Criterion Collection, Wajda, Andrzej
  • 1955, Andrzej Wajda, Poland
  • 1 Comment

Wajda’s first feature is a modest story of sorrow and youth resistance in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, promising great things to come for one of Poland’s greatest filmmakers.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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April 25, 2022July 9, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)

  • Bergman, Ingmar, Criterion Collection
  • 1955, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
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Bergman’s breakthrough international success is a witty if flirtatious comedy about the laws of sexual attraction and matters of the heart.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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February 15, 2021December 1, 2025 by Eternality Tan

I Live in Fear (1955)

  • Criterion Collection, Kurosawa, Akira
  • 1955, Akira Kurosawa, Japan
  • 1 Comment

One of Kurosawa’s lesser urban dramas that deals with the trauma and anxiety of nuclear annihilation through the eyes of a paranoid old patriarch.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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August 10, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Trouble with Harry, The (1955)

  • Hitchcock, Alfred
  • 1955, Alfred Hitchcock, USA
  • 1 Comment

An underrated, light-hearted if sometimes peculiar comedic farce by Hitchcock.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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March 15, 2020March 27, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Pather Panchali (1955)

  • Criterion Collection, Ray, Satyajit
  • 1955, India, Satyajit Ray
  • 5 Comments

One of the greatest films of all-time from the legendary Satyajit Ray.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

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October 4, 2019June 10, 2024 by Eternality Tan

French Cancan (1955)

  • Criterion Collection, Renoir, Jean
  • 1955, France, Jean Renoir
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Renoir’s musical-romance is full of colour, schmaltz and spectacle, marked by some astonishing sequences of dance choreography and editing.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.
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