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Nights of Cabiria (1957)
With an intelligent employment of religious and demonic imagery at hand, Federico Fellini and Giulietta Masina craft one of the most indelible cinematic characters of the 1950s, allowing us an empathetic vessel through which we contemplate the religious hypocrisies and class struggles of post-war Italy.
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The Fall Guy (2024)
David Leitch’s satirical tribute to Hollywood’s most undervalued profession is clearly a labour of love for the former stuntman, as The Fall Guy leads one such daredevil into a conspiracy laden with fights, chases, and pyrotechnics, and celebrates that especially resilient breed of performer with a wry tinge of self-awareness.
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Repulsion (1965)
At the core of Repulsion’s surreal, psychological horror, Roman Polanski centres a woman with an inexplicable revulsion towards men, eerily surrounding her repressed trauma with psychosexual symbols while she desperately tries to contain the resulting damage to her mind, home, and whoever dares to cross the threshold into either.
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Il Bidone (1955)
Rocky is the path to redemption in Il Bidone’s modern parable of morality and corruption, but so too is it spiritually purifying, as Federico Fellini strips back the lies of a professional swindler to uncover the grace that lies dormant in even the most dishonest man.
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49th Parallel (1941)
It takes a communal sense of justice, democracy, and moral fortitude among the everyday civilians of 49th Parallel to not only pick off the six Nazi fugitives who have been stranded in Canada, but also to thoroughly undermine the hateful ideology which they represent, as Michael Powell’s wartime fable spurs the western world to make…
