Category: the classics
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Candy Land
Jacques Rivette’s free-wheeling 1974 epic ‘Céline and Julie Go Boating’ is charmingly confounding.
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Paths of Resistance
‘A Special Day,’ Ettore Scola’s moving, antifascist two-hander from 1977, features stunning work from Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.
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Brighter Days Ahead
Lino Brocka’s ‘Manila in the Claws of Light,’ from 1975, has rightfully long been heralded as the crown jewel of Filipino cinema.
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Sexy Beast
Alain Delon was at his most astonishing-looking in ‘Purple Noon,’ René Clément’s 1960 adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s dark, seductive ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley.’
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Fools for Love
‘Pauline at the Beach,’ one of Éric Rohmer’s many vacation-set movies, is also among his best.
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In the Shadows
‘Victim,’ Basil Dearden’s tense 1961 noir, groundbreakingly depicted gayness with sympathy and homophobia with contempt.
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Vertigo
In 2000’s ‘Suzhou River,’ Lou Ye stylishly captures the anxieties and obsessions of love out of reach.
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Body Doubles
‘Sisters,’ Brian De Palma’s 1972 thriller, foreshadows the neo-Hitchcockian greatness the filmmaker would only continue to refine.
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The Shops Around the Corner
On Agnès Varda’s ‘Daguerréotypes.’
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Walk on the Wild Side
The thematically rich ‘Cat People’ remains a high-water mark for 1940s horror.
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Delirium
Increasingly reappraised after it was tepidly received in 2003, Jane Campion’s ‘In the Cut’ potently flips the script on the typically straight male gaze-dominated erotic thriller.
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The Idea of You
Notes on ‘Letter from an Unknown,’ Max Ophüls’ masterpiece of unrequited love.
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