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May 5, 2024May 5, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Notte, La (1961)

  • Antonioni, Michelangelo, Criterion Collection
  • 1961, Italy, Michelangelo Antonioni
  • 1 Comment

Words have little meaning but faces bear the truth in Antonioniโ€™s remarkable treatise on modern alienation and ennui as it follows a well-to-do couple facing a sinking marriage on an afternoon and night out.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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November 28, 2023February 6, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Leon Morin, Priest (1961)

  • Criterion Collection, Melville, Jean-Pierre
  • 1961, France, Jean-Pierre Melville
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A sensually shot if also subtly erotic take on religion and desire, handled with deft skill by the great Melville.  

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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February 8, 2023February 8, 2023 by Eternality Tan

One-Eyed Jacks (1961)

  • Criterion Collection
  • 1961, USA
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Brandoโ€™s only directorial effort is truly exceptionalโ€”a soulful revenge Western with stunning picturesque imagery and a commitment to exploring and subverting the ethos of the genre. 

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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November 30, 2022November 30, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

  • Criterion Collection, Resnais, Alain
  • 1961, Alain Resnais, France
  • 5 Comments

Extramarital affairs donโ€™t get any more enigmatic and impenetrable than Resnaisโ€™ hypnotic Venice Golden Lion-winning anti-romance that boldly discards structure and narrative, leaving only unreliable memories and narrators.ย 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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February 27, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Woman Is a Woman, A (1961)

  • Godard, Jean-Luc
  • 1961, France, Jean-Luc Godard
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This early Godard sees Anna Karina at her most bewitching (those soul-staring eyes that break the fourth wall!) as the auteur reinvents the โ€˜rom-comโ€™ with wilful abandon and artistry.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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January 1, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Lola (1961)

  • Criterion Collection, Demy, Jacques
  • 1961, France, Jacques Demy
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Demyโ€™s first feature is a modest, warm-spirited take on the bittersweet nature of past romances, transient acquaintances and the desire to find greener pastures.ย 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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August 1, 2021April 17, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Accattone (1961)

  • Criterion Collection, Pasolini, Pier Paolo
  • 1961, Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • 2 Comments

Quite a strong debut by Pasolini in the tradition of neorealism, with a harsh, fatalistic tone.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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November 23, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Coachman, The (1961)

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  • 1961, South Korea
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This Silver Berlin Bear winner is one of the great tear-jerking melodramas from the Golden Age of Korean cinema, depicting the struggles of a working-class family as they find their self-respect and dignity constantly being attacked.ย 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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July 3, 2020July 3, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Sea Knows, The (1961)

  • Kim, Ki-young
  • 1961, Kim Ki-young, South Korea
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A solid WWII melodrama by the great Korean master Kim Ki-young about an impossible romance between a Korean soldier forced to serve the Japanese imperial army, and a Japanese woman with radical thinking of her own.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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