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Top 25 Films Made Before 1920
Because the language of cinema was still dramatically evolving from 1895 to 1919 and because most of the films made during this period were shorts rather than feature length works, this list mixes...
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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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Top 25 Films of the 1940s
25. The Ornamental Hairpin (Shimizu, Japan, 1941) Hiroshi Shimizu’s film about a disparate group of vacationers staying at a hot springs resort for the summer starts off as a comedy and then...
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A Weimar-Era German Cinema Primer
As a result of the popularity of my “South Korean New Wave Primer” post (in terms of total number of views), I have decided to launch a “Primer series” – a periodic listing of capsule reviews of 10 –...
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A Golden Age of Hollywood Primer, pt. 1
Trying to pare down several decades worth of treasures from Hollywood’s golden age to a list of essential titles was for me virtually impossible. The “studio system era,” lasting from roughly the dawn...
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A Serious Talk About American Comedy
Katherine Stuart, one of the brightest of my former students from the College of Lake County, recently asked to interview me for an argumentative research paper she is currently writing in an English...
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