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Its themes of madness and mayhem are reinforced by over-stylized set pieces and creepy characters. Eisenstein - IMDb user rating: 8. Sergei Eisenstein's second full-length film centers on a real-life event from when the sailors on Battleship Potemkin revolted against their superiors. The director's radical use of montage and quick-cut editing techniques was way ahead of its time. Putting those techniques on full display is the famous Odessa Steps sequence, which influenced contemporary filmmakers and future ones alike.
Silent film legend Buster Keaton co-wrote, co-directed, and stars in one of the era's biggest blockbusters. Set during the Civil War, it follows an engineer Keaton as he chases down a runaway train. The action culminates with one of the most impressive and expensive stunts in early film history. Loaded with prescient themes and elaborate set pieces, Fritz Lang's sci-fi epic was the most expensive movie of its time.
It takes place in the future, where the wealth gap is quite literally divided between upper and lower terrains. While something of a flop upon its initial release, the film has since become known as a groundbreaking masterpiece. Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer and his team created one of early cinema's most expensive sets , only to fill the screen with close-ups of human faces.
His unparalleled emphasis on intimacy would prove seminal in its own right, lending the work a distinctive painterly aesthetic. Released three years into the talkie era, this silent hold-out pays a masterful tribute to the art of pantomime.
In hopes of earning money and wooing a blind flower girl, The Tramp resorts to various physical extremes. For those who've never seen Charlie Chaplin in action, this makes for an ideal place to start. The animated genre can trace its roots to this epoch-making Disney film, in which Snow White enlists the help of seven idiosyncratic dwarves.
Going way over budget, Walt Disney and his team invented the multiplane camera just for the project. Animation has come a long way in the time since, and yet this exquisitely rendered classic is still a must-see for people of all ages. This acclaimed comedy-drama put nearly all of Hollywood's biggest female stars in one place. Jean Renoir's once-controversial comedy of errors is frequently touted as the greatest movie ever made. This thinly veiled critique of the French aristocracy takes place at a lavish chateau where elitists and their servants partake in a variety of soul-revealing games.
Renoir's expert use of deep focus photography and fluid camera movement injects a pristine and graceful veneer. Orson Welles' semi-fictional biopic was a commercial flop upon its initial release , but has since become one of the most idolized films of all time. Virtually every aspect of the movie—from the unconventional narrative to the thrilling camera-work—represents a cinematic milestone of some sort. No film education is complete without a viewing of this masterpiece.
This timeless romantic drama starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman fires on all conceivable cylinders. While the performances and direction are top-notch, it's the screenplay that endures as a pinnacle of craftsmanship. Dobbs in John Huston's pitch-perfect parable about greed and mistrust among men.
Blending a full range of moods and styles, it's considered to be one of the best-looking films ever made. At the heart of the story is a talented ballerina named Victoria 'Vicky' Page Moira Shearer , who must choose between the man she loves and the demands of her career. It chronicles the exploits of a downtrodden Roman and his son. True to the movement's broader paradigms, De Sica employed untrained actors and shot primarily on location.
Prepare for a visceral experience like no other and keep some tissues close by. This quintessential film noir follows a pulp writer Joseph Cotten to postwar Vienna, where he looks into the death of his friend Orson Welles.
As his probe deepens, the writer finds himself embroiled in a grave conspiracy. Director Carol Reed's deft use of sinister music and moody lighting cultivates a sense of constant danger.
Any modern film with an unreliable narrator or multiple perspectives owes a debt of gratitude to Akira Kurosawa's psychological thriller. It's a movie so impactful that there's an entire concept named after it, better known as the Rashomon Effect. This was also one of the major films to introduce Japanese cinema to the world at large.
From legendary director Billy Wilder comes this noir-ish classic, about fading show biz stardom and its impact on the human soul. The movie's opening scene—in which a narrator William Holden speaks over his own recently deceased body—paves the way for a twisted tale of jealousy and ambition. Gloria Swanson's turn as delusional actress Norma Desmond is one for the ages. One of the greatest musicals ever made is also one of the funniest, thanks to a brilliant script and range of hilarious characters.
Set during the tail end of the silent era, it finds a production company struggling to adapt to the talkie format. One doesn't need a love of Hollywood musicals to appreciate this exceptional work. Delivered in a poignant and minimalist style, it examines the effect of modernity on various members within the same family. In the age of social media and constant distraction, the movie's themes of interpersonal drift still strike a prescient chord. Before the legion of remakes and adaptations , there was Akira Kurosawa's original adventure drama.
When a small village comes under attack from ruthless bandits, the local farmers hire seven rogue samurais to protect them. Elia Kazan's low-budget drama won eight Academy Awards, including one for Marlon Brando in a surprise upset. It centers on ex-prize fighter Terry Malloy Brando , who takes a job as a longshoreman and speaks out against corrupt union bosses. Brando's gripping performance and the film's palpable themes of injustice are just two among numerous reasons to see it.
Ripped straight out of ancient folklore, Kenji Mizoguchi's masterpiece presents a harrowing tale of suffering and perseverance.
Set in feudal Japan, it follows a once-prosperous governor into exile and his family into slavery. The film comprises slow fades and sweeping long shots and goes straight to the core of human emotions. It marked the emergence of a completely new voice in Indian cinema. John Ford and John Wayne collaborated on a slew of classic Westerns, and this one might very well be their best. It stars Wayne as a racist Civil War veteran, who embarks on an obsessive quest to locate his kidnapped niece Natalie Wood.
Infused with an unmistakable sense of darkness and ambiguity, the film redefined Western genre archetypes. This famous drama takes place almost entirely inside the jury room, where 12 men must decide the fate of a suspected murderer.
Just when it seems like a verdict of guilty has been reached, Juror 8 Henry Fonda casts doubt on the prosecution's case. Strong acting and excellent writing move the story forward at the pace of a taut thriller. Anchored by Jimmy Stewart's perfectly frayed performance, the movie unravels mysteries and obsessions against a backdrop of lush cinematography and haunting music.
Billy Wilder's screwball comedy follows two musicians Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon as they dress up as women after witnessing a mob hit. A critical and commercial hit right out of the gate, it sees Marilyn Monroe delivering some of the best comic timing of her career.
The film was inspired by the director's own childhood experiences, and it chronicles the dangerous misadventures of a young outcast.
The result was a new form of cinematic language , in which the personal touch can be felt in every frame. Godard's debut is a stunning example of French New Wave cinema, and it oozes with absolute coolness and aplomb. What opens as an off-beat crime caper becomes an absurdist romantic comedy, marching squarely to the beat of its own drum. Now more than ever, Michelangelo Antonioni's enigmatic drama resonates with poignant relevancy. Exploring romance through a strictly modern lens, its themes of alienation and selfishness practically anticipate the current era.
Another classic from the French New Wave, this surrealist fever dream blends past and present to dizzying effect. It takes place at an opulent chateau where a sharp-dressed man insists that he and a beautiful woman have met before.
A lingering backdrop of pipe organ music lends the film a phantasmagoric vibe, which might very well be the point. As she awaits the results of a biopsy, Cleo's entire outlook on life is affected by the very fact that she might have cancer. With the movie's heroic characters, sweeping visual style, and epic action sequences, it laid the groundwork for a bevy of subsequent blockbusters. Italy's Federico Fellini was already a master of the medium by the time he unleashed this influential work, which is one of the most seminal films about filmmaking.
Blending autobiography and fantasy in a whirlwind of style, it chronicles the exploits of on-screen counterpart Guido Anselmi Marcello Mastroianni. Greedy strangers square off over a hidden fortune in this slapstick satire from Stanley Kramer.
It might not be the first ensemble comedy in film history, but it's certainly among the most quintessential. Sweden's Ingmar Bergman crafted such a diverse and trailblazing oeuvre that he's practically a genre unto himself.
When a young Senegalese woman goes to work for a wealthy French family, she finds herself a prisoner in their small apartment. Beyond the purposefully simple veneer is a core thesis that the slave era might be over, but its brutal mindset remains. Robert Bresson's gut-wrenching masterpiece might be about the life of a donkey, but don't mistake it for family fare.
On the contrary, it's a harrowing treatise on powerlessness and torture in a cruel and indifferent world. Frederick Wiseman strives for objectivity, preferring instead to let his subjects speak for themselves. His prolific career began with this acclaimed documentary, which takes viewers behind the walls of the Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane. Revealing the brutal conditions therein, it was the first film in America to be banned for reasons other than obscenity or national security.
This epochal comedy-drama encapsulated shifting generational trends and cinematic ones alike. It stars Dustin Hoffman as a disaffected college graduate, who gets romantically involved with both an older woman Anne Bancroft and her daughter Katharine Ross. The film's massive success provided further indication that the tides had indeed changed. Romero - IMDb user rating: 7. Romero's horror classic, but that didn't stop it from birthing the zombie genre.
Over 50 years later, this low-budget milestone continues to loom large on screens big and small. The modern sci-fi genre basically begins with Kubrick's mind-blowing masterpiece, which offers a striking vision of mankind's journey into space. Putting realist effects and heady themes to a classical score, it foresaw the future with an impressive degree of intuitive accuracy. Plus, it basically invented the iPad. Directed by and starring Dennis Hopper, it sends two drug-dealing hippie bikers on an odyssey across the country.
Released just as the s dream was coming to a close, it ends on a fitfully shocking note. Underpinned by the theories of controversial psychologist Wilhelm Reich, this art-house favorite uses sexual exploration as a means of political dissent. In turn, the Czech New Wave film was summarily banned and its creator exiled. Master auteur Andrei Tarkovsky was a humanist at heart, whose cinematic language remains utterly distinct.
With this magnum opus, he infused the sci-fi genre with his poetic sensibilities for the first of two times. In its telling of the Corleone crime family saga, the film encapsulates themes of loyalty and power to ageless effect.
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