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Aftersun 2022
In what is objectively one of the all-time great cinematic debuts, Charlotte Wells channeled personal experiences and created the ultimate jet-lag movie, locating a mesmerizing father-daughter relationship between a loving young father (Calum) and his plucky 11-year-old daughter (Sophie) amid the woozy, daydreamy bewilderment of being in a very foreign country and a very different time zone. Set on a holiday resort in Turkey, the pair make use of what precious time they have together before school begins and they…
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The Birds 1963
One of Alfred Hitchcock's scariest films initially doesn't feel like a horror film at all. We follow a rather bold socialite who has a meet-cute in a bird shop then follows her love interest to his isolated Northern California hometown. They fall in love, she bonds with his younger sister and wins the heart of his resistant mother. And it's only after some seagulls run, ahem, "afowl" at a birthday party that we realize something is very, very amiss. Hitchcock's…
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A Clockwork Orange 1971
He’s explored a handful of different genres, from period pieces to outright horror flicks, but along the way, Stanley Kubrick remained resolutely provocative — which made him a natural fit to adapt Anthony Burgess' indecipherable, highly controversial novel. A Clockwork Orange is a crash course in humanism featuring eye-searing ultra-violence, hedonistic sexuality and bowler-hatted psychopaths led by sadistic punk Alex who kicks, beats and rapes his way through a cartoon nightmare of the future, then is conditioned and “cured” by…
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The Artist 2011
It's a gimmick. It's a pastiche. It couldn't be more Oscar-bait if it starred Daniel Day-Lewis and Meryl Streep. Well, The Artist was awarded a quintet of Oscars, but the point is when a silent, black-and-white film was announced in 2011, eyes were rolled and conjectures poured out like so much prohibition liquor. But as it turned out, The Artist wasn't a snooty exercise built to appeal to wise arbitrators of film. Michel Hazanavicius paid homage to expressionist cinema with…
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