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Unforgiven (1992): The Movie That Ended the Western
Still from Unforgiven (1992). © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.Westerns have always transformed violence into legend. Heroes ride into town, villains are defeated, and bloodshed becomes the price of...
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Where There Is a Story, There Is Life: On Tarsem Singh's 'The Fall' (2006)
A still from "The Fall" (2006)Stories are inseparable from what it means to be human. Long before history found its way into books, stories were carried through voices around campfires, etched onto...
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When Weather Becomes a Character: How Akira Kurosawa Uses Summer Heat in...
Mifune as Murakami (right) and Takashi Shimura as Sato (left)[Images may be subject to copyright]Few filmmakers have left as profound an impact on world cinema as Akira Kurosawa. His films have...
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Childhood, Memory, and the Beautiful Ironies of Growing Up in Bob Clark's A...
A still from "A Christmas Story"[Images may be subject to copyright]There are few Christmas films as enduring as Bob Clark's A Christmas Story. Decades after its release, it remains a holiday ritual...
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From Enslaved Bodies to Consumerist Monsters: The Evolution of the Zombie Myth
[Images may be subject to copyright.]Few monsters have exerted as much influence on contemporary popular culture as the zombie. They are everywhere, appearing in films, television shows, video games,...
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History, Morality, and the Limits of Ethical Certainty in Zoltan Fabri's The...
A still from "The Fifth Seal"(1976) [Images may be subject to copyright]Cinema has often used history as a vehicle for philosophical inquiry. In Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, the historical...
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The Ugly Stepsister and the Horror Hidden Within the Tale of Cinderella
Lea Myren as Elvira in "The Ugly Stepsister"[Images may be subject to copyright]“Cut the toe off; when you are queen, you will no longer need to go on foot.”The line appears in the Grimm Brothers'...
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Bearing Witness: The Face of War in Come and See
Aleksei Kravchenko as Florya in "Come and See"[Images may be subject to copyright]Few anti-war films possess the power to leave audiences physically shaken decades after their release. Elem Klimov's...
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Why “Tokyo Twilight” Feels Like Ozu’s Bleakest Film?
The sisters Takako (Setsuko Hara) and Akiko (Ineko Arima) in "Tokyo Twilight" (Images may be subject to copyright.) Yasujiro Ozu's cinema is often associated with quiet heartbreak. Parents grow old,...
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Composition Class [1938] – The Strengths and Inconveniences of Honesty
It’s fascinating to witness the number of Japanese studio films from 1930s that focuses on the social and economic situation of the underclass. Yasujiro Ozu’s Passing Fancy (1933), An Inn in Tokyo...
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The Paper [1994] – A Facile yet Delightfully Energetic Newspaper Movie
Ron Howard’sThe Paper (1994) centers on 24 hours in the life of the Sun, i.e., The New York Sun, a fictitious New York tabloid which like any traditional newspaper is torn between idealism and...
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The Interview [1998] – A Taut, Solidly Crafted Police Procedural
At dawn one morning in Melbourne, police force led by Detective Sergeant John Steele (Tony Martin) bust into an apartment of a middle-aged man, who is slumbering in his recliner surrounded by stack of...
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Birdboy: The Forgotten Children [2015] – The Quest for Freedom in a Strangely...
Pedro Rivera and Alberto Vazquez’s Spanish animated feature Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (‘Pscionautas, los ninos olvidados’, 2015) is a gloomy yet beautiful impressionistic parable of survival in...
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Glory [2016] – A Universal and Timeless Tale of Bureaucratic Nightmare
East European cinema possesses the knack for offering subtle and powerful tales about people getting thrown under the wheels of apathetic bureaucracy system. Their film-makers (especially the auteurs...
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Manic [2001] – Troubled Youths and Unforgiving Environment
Jordan Melamed’s indie-feature Manic (2001) is a well-intentioned drama on young damaged souls who have no hope whatsover to win over their inner demons. Although, it’s not a very memorable or...
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Young Mr. Lincoln [1939] – A Visually Eloquent & Lionized Portrayal of the...
The year 1939 was pivotal period in the film-making career of the America’s greatest director John Ford. By this time, Mr. Ford had been making movies for more than two decades, yet the works that...
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Forty Guns [1957] – An Audacious and Exciting Revisionist Western
Samuel Michael Fuller was one of the greatest maverick American film-makers whose unpredictable genre movies oft posed incendiary critiques on the decadent and hypocritical nature of the American...
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Hopscotch [1980] – A Relentlessly Playful Espionage Comedy
British Author John le Carre’s legendary character George Smiley is anti-James Bond. He fights enemies with intelligence and his battlefield is a drab office interestingly referred to as The Circus....
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Late Chrysanthemums [1954] – The Everyday Disappointments of Japanese Women...
Mikio Naruse’s first three adaptations of Fumiko Hayashi’s stories – Repast (1951), Lightning (1952), and Wife (1953) – explored how women’s social roles remain limited by traditional gender norms...
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A Visitor to a Museum [1989] – An Unconventional Post-Apocalyptic Cinema with...
Konstantin Lopushansky’s heavily textured, nightmarish cinema projects a future for humankind that looks prophetic, although we wouldn't hope for it to happen. Lopushansky, who worked as production...
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