The 1950 US Western film The Gunfighter directed by Henry King is a great early example of the deconstruction of Wild West heroism. Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird) stars in the main role as infamous gunslinger Jimmy Ringo growing older and wishing to leave his lifestyle behind and just settle down and reunite with […]
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The Battle of Algiers is a 1966 Italian-Algerian war film by Gillo Pontecorvo. It depicts the fight of rebels against the French government in Algeria’s capital during the Algerian War that took place between 1954-1962. It was shot in the city and features a newsreel look in black and white with documentary-style editing to heighten
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The 1955 artistic French documentary short film Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog) by Alain Resnais is showing on Mubi. The film deals with the holocaust, detailing the progress from the rise of the Nazis, the deportation process, the construction of concentration camps and the life of the prisoners in contrast to the camps staff
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Tokyo Olympiad (東京オリンピック, Tōkyō Orinpikku) is a 1965 Japanese documentary film directed by Kon Ichikawa, documenting the 1964 Olympic Summer Games in Japan. Tokyo Olympiad focuses more on the atmosphere of the Games than on journalistic coverage, making it an important cinematic work in contemporary history. Tokyo was supposed to host the Olympics as early
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This film was made between “The Godfather” (1972) and “The Godfather Part II” (1974) and was a return to a small art film for Coppola. Gene Hackman plays wiretapping spy Harry Caul, who is tasked with intercepting a young couple’s conversation in the bustling Union Square in San Francisco. The words are clear, but their
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The horror silent film “Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari” by Robert Wiene from 1920 is an important milestone in film history and counts as an essential work of German expressionist film. Before the Second World War, he had a profound stylistic influence on much of German cinema, was the forerunner of the atmospheric light-dark look
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