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Punishment Park (1971)
Set in a detention camp in an America of the near-future, Punishment Park's pseudo-documentary style (continuing Watkins' subversive innovations with Culloden and The War Game) places a British film crew amongst a group of young students... see more »
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Metropolis (2001)
Brace yourself for a totally new experience in cutting-edge animation. Based on the classic comic created by Osamu Tezuka, written by Japanese anime legend Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira) and directed by Rintaro, Metropolis is a spectacular film... see more »
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Le Silence De La Mer (1949)
Le Silence de la mer - Jean-Pierre Melville's debut film - is an adaptation of the novella of the same title by celebrated French Resistance author Vercors (the pen name of Jean Bruller). Clandestinely written in 1942 during the Nazi... see more »
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Grey Gardens (1976)
From the filmmakers behind Salesman (1969) and The Rolling Stones' Gimme Shelter (1970), the Maysles Brothers present another of their 'non-fiction features', this time an impossibly intimate, absorbing insight into the lives of two... see more »
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Onibaba (1964)
Onibaba is set during a brutal period in history, a Japan ravaged by civil war between rival shogunates. Weary from combat, samurai are drawn towards the seven-foot-high susuku grass fields to hide and rest themselves, only to be ambushed... see more »
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Kwaidan (1964)
For the first time in the West, The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present the complete 183-minute original Japanese cut of Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan - one of the most meticulously crafted supernatural fantasy films ever made. ... see more »
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Edvard Munch (1976)
Famously described by the late Ingmar Bergman as "a work of genius", Peter Watkins' multi-faceted masterwork is more than just a biopic of the iconic Norwegian Expressionist painter, it is one of the best films made about the artistic... see more »
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Holy Mountain (1926)
German filmmaker and doctor Arnold Fanck (1889-1974) made this beautifully photographed Berg film, or 'mountain film', in 1926. Written in three days and nights - especially for Riefenstahl - The Holy Mountain took over a year to film in... see more »
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Fantastic Planet (1973)
Fantastic Planet tells the story of "Oms", human-like creatures, kept as domesticated pets by an alien race of blue giants called "Draags". The story takes place on the Draags' planet Ygam, where we follow our narrator, an Om called Terr,... see more »
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The Face of Another (1966)
Following Woman of the Dunes (Suna no onna) in 1964, Hiroshi Teshigahara continued his collaboration with avant-garde novelist/playwright Kobo Abe and experimental composer Toru Takemitsu for The Face of Another (Tanin no kao). Starring... see more »
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Nightmare Alley (1947)
Often described as the grimmest of all Hollywood film noirs, Nightmare Alley's reputation as a cult classic reached near-mythical status due to a decades-long dispute between the film's producer (George Jessel) and Fox, which prevented it... see more »
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Time Masters (1982)
Rene Laloux, the director of Fantastic Planet (La Planete sauvage), created Les Maitres Du temps, his penultimate animated feature film, in 1982. A huge hit in France at the time of it's release, it combines Laloux's famous imagination... see more »
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Scandal (1950)
Akira Kurosawa's Scandal - as relevant now as when it was made - is a pointed attack on the rising power of the press and their practices in the newly Americanised postwar Japan of 1950. Kurosawa was outraged by the actions of the gutter... see more »
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F. W. Murnau, Germany's finest director, was imported to Hollywood in July 1926. William Fox of the Fox Film Corporation promised and gave him complete artistic freedom. Fox told Murnau to take his time, spend whatever he had to, and make... see more »
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The Naked Island (1960)
Filmed on the virtually deserved Setonaikai archipelago in south-west Japan. The Naked Island tells the story of a small family unit and their subsistence as the only inhabitants of an arid, sun-baked island. Daily chores, captured as a... see more »
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