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The Spacewalker

Jul 9, 2001 Director Bruce Robinson reminisces about the days that inspired his uproarious black comedy.

Jul 9, 2001 John Schlesinger’s classic is an exuberant satire of a society caught between its old ways and the urge to modernize.

Billy Liar

Essays

Jul 9, 2001 John Schlesinger’s beloved dramedy subverts the conventions of British kitchen-sink realism.

Jun 4, 2001 Mario Monicelli’s caper comedy is that genuine rarity in popular culture: a satire that not only helped kill off one movie genre, but started a whole new subgenre in the process.

Jun 4, 2001 Mad with images of nature in rebellion, Luis Buñuel’s 1964 film is a droll vision of Eden during the Fall starring a sumptuous Jeanne Moreau.

Playtime

Essays

Jun 3, 2001 Jacques Tati’s singular satire is a series of giddy encounters between people and things in which the wonders of “modern life” relinquish their functionality in favor of an unaccountably rapturous beauty.

May 12, 2001 Bertrand Tavernier’s adaptation is the story of a saintly madman in a world where the concepts of good and evil have no meaning.

Mona Lisa

Essays

Mar 12, 2001 Mona Lisa has several reasons for being. One was an article from a British tabloid about an ex-convict on a GBH charge who claimed in his defense to be protecting ladies of the night against their Maltese pimps. Steve Woolley,...

Jan 29, 2001 Masahiro Shinoda’s historical drama uses traditional elements of Japanese theater to explore the tension between ethics and eroticism.

Jan 29, 2001 In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s drama, the characters abandon their twin faiths, in God and the British Empire, and turn themselves over to more ancient and dangerous powers.

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