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Torment

Alf Sjöberg
1944 • 101 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden
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Ingmar Bergman’s first produced screenplay was for the great Swedish filmmaker Alf Sjöberg’s Torment, a dark coming-of-age drama about a boarding-school senior, Widgren, terrorized by his sadistic Latin teacher.

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Crisis

Ingmar Bergman
1946 • 93 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden
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In Ingmar Bergman’s feature directing debut, urban beauty-shop proprietress Miss Jenny arrives in an idyllic rural town one morning to whisk away her eighteen-year-old daughter, Nelly, whom she abandoned as a child, from the loving woman who has raised her.

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Port of Call

Ingmar Bergman
1948 • 97 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden
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Berit, a suicidal young woman living in a working-class port town, unexpectedly falls for Gösta, a sailor on leave. Haunted by a troubled past and held in a vice grip by her domineering mother, Berit begins to hope that her relationship with Gösta might save her from self-destruction.

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To Joy

Ingmar Bergman
1949 • 99 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden
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An orchestra violinist’s dreams of becoming a celebrated soloist and fears of his own mediocrity get in the way of his marriage to the patient, caring Marta in Ingmar Bergman’s heartbreaking To Joy.

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Vive le Tour

Louis Malle
1962 • 19 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
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In his short documentary Vive le Tour, Louis Malle presents his energetic evocation of the Tour de France.

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Humain, trop humain

Louis Malle
1973 • 72 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
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In his documentary Humain, trop humain, Louis Malle presents his meditative investigation of the inner workings of a French automotive plant.

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Place de la République

Louis Malle
1974 • 95 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
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In Place de la république, Louis Malle presents his entertaining snapshot of the comings and goings on one street corner in Paris.

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Phantom India

Louis Malle
1969 • 363 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
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Louis Malle called his gorgeous and groundbreaking Phantom India the most personal film of his career. And this extraordinary journey to India, originally shown as a miniseries on European television, is infused with his sense of discovery, as well as occasional outrage, intrigue, and joy.

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Calcutta

Louis Malle
1969 • 99 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
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When he was cutting Phantom India, Louis Malle found that the footage shot in Calcutta was so diverse, intense, and unforgettable that it deserved its own film. The result, released theatrically, is at times shocking—a chaotic portrait of a city engulfed in social and political turmoil.

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. . . And the Pursuit of Happiness

Louis Malle
1986 • 81 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
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In 1986, Louis Malle set out to investigate the ever-widening range of immigrant experience in America. Interviewing a variety of newcomers in middle- and working-class communities from coast to coast, Malle paints a generous, humane portrait of their individual struggles.

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Early Spring

Yasujiro Ozu
1956 • 145 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan
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In his first film after the commercial and critical success of Tokyo Story, Ozu examines life in postwar Japan through the eyes of a young salaryman, dissatisfied with career and marriage, who begins an affair with a flirtatious co-worker.

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Tokyo Twilight

Yasujiro Ozu
1957 • 141 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan
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One of Ozu’s most piercing portraits of family strife, Tokyo Twilight follows the parallel paths of two sisters contending with an absent mother, unwanted pregnancy, and marital discord.

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Late Autumn

Yasujiro Ozu
1960 • 128 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan
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The great actress and Ozu regular Setsuko Hara plays a mother gently trying to persuade her daughter to marry in this glowing portrait of family love and conflict—a reworking of Ozu’s 1949 masterpiece Late Spring.

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The End of Summer

Yasujiro Ozu
1961 • 103 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan
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The Kohayakawa family is thrown into distress when childlike father Manbei takes up with his old mistress, in one of Ozu’s most deftly modulated blendings of comedy and tragedy.

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Les misérables

Raymond Bernard
1934 • 279 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
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Hailed by film critics around the world as the greatest screen adapation of Victor Hugo’s mammoth nineteenth-century novel, Raymond Bernard’s dazzling, nearly five-hour Les misérables is a breathtaking tour de force, unfolding with the depth and detail of its source.

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The Steel Helmet

Samuel Fuller
1951 • 84 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
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Despite its relatively low budget, this portrait of Korean War soldiers dealing with moral and racial identity crises remains one of Samuel Fuller’s most gripping, realistic depictions of the blood and guts of war, as well as a reflection of Fuller’s irreducible social conscience.

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No Regrets for Our Youth

Akira Kurosawa
1946 • 110 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan
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In Akira Kurosawa’s first film after the end of World War II, future beloved Ozu regular Setsuko Hara gives an astonishing performance as Yukie, who transforms herself from genteel bourgeois daughter to independent social activist during a tumultuous decade in Japanese history.

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One Wonderful Sunday

Akira Kurosawa
1947 • 109 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan
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This affectionate paean to young love is also a frank examination by Akira Kurosawa of the harsh realities of postwar Japan. During a Sunday trip into war-ravaged Tokyo, Yuzo and Masako look for work and lodging, as well as affordable entertainments to pass the time.

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Scandal

Akira Kurosawa
1950 • 105 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan
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A handsome, suave Toshiro Mifune lights up the screen as painter Ichiro, whose circumstantial meeting with a famous singer is twisted by the tabloid press into a torrid affair. Ichiro files a lawsuit against the seedy gossip magazine, but his lawyer, Hiruta (Takashi Shimura), is playing both sides.

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The Idiot

Akira Kurosawa
1951 • 166 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan
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The Idiot, an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s masterpiece about a wayward, pure soul’s reintegration into society—updated by Kurosawa to capture Japan’s postwar aimlessness—was a victim of studio interference and public indifference. Today, this “folly” looks ever more fascinating.

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I Live in Fear

Akira Kurosawa
1955 • 103 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan
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I Live in Fear presents Toshiro Mifune as an elderly, stubborn businessman so fearful of a nuclear attack that he resolves to move his reluctant family to South America. Kurosawa depicts a society emerging from the shadows but still terrorized by memories of the past and anxieties for the future.

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Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?

William Klein
1966 • 101 minutes • 1.66:1 • France
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Elegant, scathing humor ties together the various strands of this alternately glamorous and grotesque portrait of American in Paris Polly Maggoo, an Alice in Wonderland supermodel who becomes the pinup plaything of media hounds and the fragmented fantasy of haunted Prince Igor.

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