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The 25 Best Directors of the Last Decade
The best directors of the last ten years, from blockbuster visionaries to arthouse experimentalists.
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Die Nibelungen (1924)
Fritz Lang’s majestic fable of ambition, betrayal, and vengeance stands as a monumental achievement of silent filmmaking in Die Nibelungen, lifting mythical kings and battles out of Germanic legend, and giving them operatic, larger-than-life form on the cinema screen.
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The 10 Best Film Composers of the Last Decade
The best film composers of the last ten years, from orchestral virtuosos to electronic innovators.
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I Was Born, But… (1932)
Within the messy entanglement of power and status, Yasujirō Ozu’s formal mirroring of fathers and sons in I Was Born, But… reveals the conflict at the root of our common insecurities, as well as the sweet, liberating affirmation we never stop pursuing from infancy through adulthood.
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The 10 Best Cinematographers of the Last Decade
The best cinematographers of the last ten years, from IMAX pioneers to monochrome nostalgists.

