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Jun 25, 2024 · Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist remains one of the most politically charged films ever made: by nature of its premise, its setting, and also the overt willingness to trust in a government to a point of suppressing themselves as human beings.
Jun 21, 2024 · Arguably peaking with Coppola's The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974), the movement was really kickstarted by the success of Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde (1967), and also resulted...
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6 days ago · Basking in the premise of Blaise Pascal’s philosophical “Wager” on the existence of God, timid engineer Jean-Louis is torn between Françoise, the angelic blonde he’s glimpsed at Mass and secretly vowed to marry, and Maud, the seductive brunette atheist who invites him to spend a snowy winter’s night in her apartment.
Jun 20, 2024 · The 1970s Movie That Explains 2020s America. Chinatown, released 50 years ago today, shone a bleak light on the machinations of money and power—a theme that still animates U.S. politics. By ...
Jun 26, 2024 · Donald Sutherland bucked the Hollywood trend for handsome and brought his own unconventional brand of off-kilter integrity and humour to roles that often underscored his left-leaning ideals.
Jun 10, 2024 · Unfortunately, the attendees of a recent repertory screening of The Conformist appear to have seen a buffering error in the last place they’d expect to do so: on the sprawling screen of New York City’s Paris Theater.
Jun 20, 2024 · The 1970s Movie That Explains 2020s America. This spring, I went to see Chinatown in a theater for the first time since its release, on June 20, 1974. The movie was headlining at the annual TCM Classic Film Festival on Hollywood Boulevard. Inside, every seat in the huge IMAX theater was taken.
