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Letter Never Sent (1960)
The struggle to survive in the Siberian wilderness of Letter Never Sent is as psychological as it is physical, swallowing four diamond-hunting adventurers up in its primordial chaos, and forcing us through Mikhail Kalatozov’s daunting camerawork to bow down before its ravaging elemental forces.
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Journey to Italy (1954)
Roberto Rossellini’s casting of one trouble marriage against the crumbling, historical ruins of Naples reveals rocky foundations in Journey to Italy, deeply pondering how we let our mortality define our relationships, and the existential loneliness which organically emerges from them.
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The Innocents (1961)
There seems to be a sinister influence taking hold of the children that governess Miss Giddens is tasked with caring for in The Innocents, though as Jack Clayton sinks us into her tortured, repressed mind, so too are the lines blurred between unholy evil and those who obsessively seek to conquer it.
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Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 (2024)
Featuring a vast array of natural locations and rich characters, Kevin Costner announces a project so majestically bloated in Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 that it threatens to dilute its own focus, yet which still etches out a sprawling, Western mythology refusing to be defined by a single perspective.
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Alien: Romulus (2024)
Through an attempted escape from corporate servitude and an unnatural distortion of biology, Alien: Romulus disturbingly examines the treacherous magnitude of human ambition, as well as the inhumanity which ironically threatens to cannibalise us in the process.
