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Tag / 1957

March 9, 2025March 9, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Pyaasa (1957)

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  • 1957, Guru Dutt, India
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Duttโ€™s best-known work is a musical-drama with sweeping character arcs as a struggling poet is outcast and exploited by society, leading him into a downward spiral towards oblivion. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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March 24, 2023March 24, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Nights of Cabiria (1957)

  • Criterion Collection, Fellini, Federico
  • 1957, Federico Fellini, Italy
  • 2 Comments

A Fellini classic featuring Giulietta Masina with arguably her greatest performance, this spirited tale of a prostitute who desires to change her life is at once heartbreaking and life-affirming. 

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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July 9, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Seventh Seal, The (1957)

  • Bergman, Ingmar, Criterion Collection
  • 1957, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
  • 1 Comment

Bergman’s most famous and influential work captures the torment of existence and mortality as a weary knight seeks for the elusive assurance of God as Death comes for him.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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May 5, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Wild Strawberries (1957)

  • Bergman, Ingmar, Criterion Collection
  • 1957, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
  • 2 Comments

A ruminative drama on the fear of death and loneliness, matched by a great performance by Victorย Sjostrom.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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February 21, 2021October 3, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Throne of Blood (1957)

  • Criterion Collection, Kurosawa, Akira
  • 1957, Akira Kurosawa, Japan
  • 8 Comments

Kurosawaโ€™s Noh-influenced take on โ€˜Macbethโ€™ is elemental, engrossing and one of the greatest screen adaptations of Shakespeare.  

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

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February 15, 2020May 1, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)

  • Lean, David
  • 1957, David Lean, UK
  • 3 Comments

David Lean’s rousing action-adventure war spectacle remains to be one of his most rewatchable offerings.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

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October 20, 2019July 11, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Paths of Glory (1957)

  • Criterion Collection, Kubrick, Stanley
  • 1957, Stanley Kubrick, USA
  • 5 Comments

One of the most potent anti-war films ever made… so powerful it makes your blood boil at how some humans can be so despicable.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.
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April 28, 2019February 16, 2021 by Eternality Tan

12 Angry Men (1957)

  • Criterion Collection, Lumet, Sidney
  • 1957, Sidney Lumet, USA
  • 9 Comments

Lumet’s feature debut is his greatest work, and is perhaps the most engaging black-and-white film ever made.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.
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