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Top 25 Films of the 1930s
25. Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein, Russia, 1938) 24. The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock, UK, 1938) It seems that 1935′s The 39 Steps has become the consensus pick for the masterpiece of Hitchcock’s British...
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The Poetic Realism of Jean Renoir
Today marks the 72nd anniversary of the world premiere of Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game in Paris. It is the movie I show most frequently in Intro to Film classes to illustrate the slippery yet...
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A Classic French Cinema Primer, pt. 1: Beyond the “Tradition of Quality”
The pre-Nouvelle Vague French cinema remains unjustly neglected in a lot of critical and cinephile quarters today, in part due to the contempt shown for it by the Nouvelle Vague directors when they...
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Let’s Talk About Poetic Realism
Adrian Nambo, a former student of mine from Harold Washington College, asked to interview me on the topic of Poetic Realism for a paper he recently wrote for another class. Because our interview nicely...
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