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Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
Perhaps the only thing longer than the title Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is the film itself, as Chantal Akerman forces us to feel every passing minute of one homemaker’s fastidious routine, along with its gradual, psychological decay into exasperating chaos.
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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.
