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500 Movies – #468: Miracle in Milan
1951 Directed by Vittorio De Sica Following up the untouchable classic Bicycle Thieves (1948), which less than half a decade after its release was voted the greatest film of all time on the inaugural...
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500 Movies – #467: Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
1922 Directed by Fritz Lang Though it seems strange to refer to a four-and-a-half hour crime epic as “minor,” in the grand scheme of Fritz Lang’s overall oeuvre, Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler doesn’t quite...
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500 Movies – #466: The Flowers of St. Francis
1950 Directed by Roberto Rossellini Reportedly, film historian and critic Marcel Oms called this film a “monument of stupidity,” and none other than François Truffaut named it “the most beautiful film...
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500 Movies – #465: The Red Circle
1970 Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville The familiar ‘one last job’ trope gets another go around in the stylish neo-noir The Red Circle. Following the savaging of his 1969 film Army of Shadows (now...
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500 Movies – #464: Taste of Cherry
1997 Directed by Abbas Kiarostami Abbas Kiarostami’s minimalistic and downcast drama Taste of Cherry proved to be massively divisive upon its release, tying for the prestigious Palme d’Or at Cannes and...
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500 Movies – #463: The Wind
1928 Directed by Victor Sjöstrom Many American silent films have not aged well. Despite their greatness and importance, their set pieces and acting style can read as gratingly naïve to a contemporary...
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500 Movies – #462: Titicut Follies
1967 Directed by Frederick Wiseman Like Nellie Bly before him, Frederick Wiseman broke the (still standing) taboo of talking about how we treat the mentally ill. Unlike the loquacious Bly, though,...
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500 Movies – #461: Pinocchio
1940 Directed by Ben Sharpsteen & Hamilton Luske From the release of Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs in 1937, for approximately the next three decades, Walt Disney’s animated features pushed the...
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500 Movies – #460: Dead Ringers
1988 Directed by David Cronenberg Canadian director David Cronenberg is a master of body horror. The creeping dread that one feels when watching his films is not just visceral disgust, but an...
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500 Movies – #459: Accattone
1961 Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini Along with Fellini’s earliest films, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s feature debut marks a shift away from the neorealism that had defined the past decade or so of Italian...
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