rvbranham’s Collection (336)
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CloseGimme Shelter
David Maysles, Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin
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CloseLa ronde
Max Ophuls
rvbranham: “classic elegant & heartfelt ophuls, his gliding camera dancing around the erotic dancers. anton walbrook! simone signoret!!! simone simon!!”
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CloseLe cercle rouge
Jean-Pierre Melville
rvbranham: “another great melville noir, with alain delon & yves montand & gian maria volonté. melville created a cool (yet classic) style that stays cool.”
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CloseWorld on a Wire
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
rvbranham: “in true science fictional genius fassbinder beat the bros wachowsky to the matrix by decades. having a masterwork decades after yr death? genius!!!”
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CloseW. C. Fields—Six Short Films
Monte Brice, Clyde Bruckman, Edwin Middleton…
rvbranham: “six odes to the joys of misanthropy, & classic slapstick to boot.”
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Carl Th. Dreyer
rvbranham: “one of the best vampire movies, not so much scary as slightly creepy & surreal. vampyr & passion of joan of arc assure carl dreyer's place in history.”
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CloseUnder the Roofs of Paris
René Clair
rvbranham: “another great rené clair, with troubadours & gangsters—arguably the first screwball comedy... (bonus short paris qu dort (1925) is a treat, too)”
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CloseThe Thief of Bagdad
Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell and Tim Whelan
rvbranham: “korda (w.lots o help fr. michael powell, & a bit of hindrance fr. pederast ludwig berger) directed & prod. the best fantasy ever. sabu & conrad veidt!”
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CloseBefore the Rain
Milcho Manchevski
rvbranham: “balkan region's uncivil wars as seen thru the eyes of a photo agency rep (the late great katrin cartlidge), a war photographer, & a macedonian monk.”
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CloseTaste of Cherry
Abbas Kiarostami
rvbranham: “a marvelous drive thru tehran's hilly suburbs—& perhaps the best film ever to deal with suicide. (also a dance of the devout & secularist, go figure.)”
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CloseThe Tales of Hoffmann
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
rvbranham: “without powell & pressburger there'ld be no u.k. cineman(after all, hitchcock bolted to hollywood). a gorgeous fantasia on offenbach's opera”
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CloseSólo con tu pareja
Alfonso Cuarón
rvbranham: “under-rated cuarón debut, a comedy involving a don juan, mixed up medical records, & a chase thru mexico city. emmanuel lubezki's camerawork is great.”
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CloseFat Girl
Catherine Breillat
rvbranham: “breillat's movie starts as a tart depiction of sibling rivalry & 2 girls' comings of age, but takes genuinely scary & disturbing turns.”
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CloseSweetie
Jane Campion
rvbranham: “jane campion's debut, a genuis comedy depicts truly fuckedup sibling rivalry & a family in the nile, australian-style. (& this was booed at cannes?!)”
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CloseStraw Dogs
Sam Peckinpah
rvbranham: “a fascist masterpiece?, dunno but it is pekinpah at his most uncompromising gnarliest — & dustin hoffman, susan george & david warner are great.”
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CloseStagecoach
John Ford
rvbranham: “john ford & john wayne in the western that sealed the deal. & claire travor & john carradine are great too. amazing how much fun this still is.”
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CloseShort Cuts
Robert Altman
rvbranham: “altman at his best—always written off by fickle critics, altman had more career 2nd acts than anyone. (& picking one masterpiece is amost impossible)”
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CloseSenso
Luchino Visconti
rvbranham: “a 2nd great technicolor visconti epic, fr. his golden yrs. (skip the damned & what came after, but see everything fr. the 1940s thru the early 1960s)”
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CloseStill Walking
Hirokazu Kore-eda
rvbranham: “a terrific contemporary japanese movie that evokes ozu & malle in its depiction of a family gathering...”
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CloseSecret Sunshine
Lee Chang-dong
rvbranham: “korea has been producing some of the best movies anywhere for the past couple of decades, & this one joins the list...”
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CloseScience Is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painlevé
Jean Painlevé
rvbranham: “a century's worth of great shorts, not just science documentaries, but also surreal reveries & aquatic porn. & yo la tengo's music is oddly perfect”
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CloseThe Scarlet Empress
Josef von Sternberg
rvbranham: “von sternberg & dietrich at their over-the-top best. this is one of the things they mean when they talk of the silver screen.”
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CloseThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
rvbranham: “one of the most glorious examples of color you will ever find...a war film so subversive that churchil tried to ban & wanted its prints burned.”
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CloseThe Ruling Class
Peter Medak
rvbranham: “medak mixes sex, politics, religion, brit's class system, & the madnesses therein for a musical comedy horrorshow. peter o'toole at his batshit best.”
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CloseThe Red Shoes
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
rvbranham: “another great powell/pressburger, & one of the handful of great dance movies... dance, psychological horror & romantic noir combine to pack a wollop.”
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ClosePort of Shadows
Marcel Carné
rvbranham: “jean gabin, michèle morgan, & michel simon is a trifecta of french golden age casting. poetic realism, noir, ever the fuck, it's a delight.”
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ClosePierrot le fou
Jean-Luc Godard
rvbranham: “this one is glorious in blu-ray, but like all godards when yr done you want to see the movies before it & the ones after all over again & in sequence”
Blu-Ray Spine #421 Learn more »
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