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Feb 1, 1987
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Leo McCarey's 1957 remake of his 1939 masterpiece Love Affair, coscripted with Delmer Daves and shot in color and 'Scope, is his last great film—a tearjerker with comic interludes and cosmic undertones that fully earns both its tears and its laughs, despite some kitschy notions about art and a couple of truly dreadful sequences.
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May 16, 2019
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There's a bit of a nod-nod, wink-wink irony in the title of Kenneth Branagh's latest exploration of the genius of William Shakespeare.
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Feb 7, 2003
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Andrei Tarkovsky's first major film (1966, though banned and unseen until 1971), cowritten by Andrei Konchalovsky, about a 15th-century icon painter.
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May 23, 2019
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Edited like a thriller—complete with music that practically bites your nails for you—this documentary about the Apollo 11 spaceflight is more potent as a record of American naiveté than as an enlightening spectacle.
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May 30, 2019
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John Barrymore stars in this extremely fictionalized 1927 silent adventure drama about the life of 15th century French poet François Villon.
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Apr 4, 2019
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A bevy of sterling performances and writer-director Robin Bissell's crackling screenplay (based on Osha Gray Davidson's nonfiction book, The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South) propel this civil rights-era drama into the arena of significant American political movies.
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Oct 26, 1985
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Giovanni Pastrone's 1914 film is one of several early Italian epics that significantly influenced the form and flow of the feature film, then in its developmental infancy.
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May 30, 2019
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Serdar Akar directed this Turkish drama about the real-life Ilyas Bazna, who worked as a Nazi spy while employed at the British Embassy in Turkey.
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Jun 27, 2019
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David Ondricek directed this Czech drarma about a mine fire in 1961 and those it effects.
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Oct 26, 1985
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This 1988 feature recounts the 1919 “Black Sox” scandal, in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox were persuaded by gamblers to throw the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds.
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Mar 28, 2019
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Attila Szász directed this Hungarian drama about a peasant woman learning to survive in a WWII Soviet labor camp.
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Mar 21, 2019
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Prior to its didactic, unnecessary coda, this creepy period drama is one of the strongest films director Krzysztof Zanussi has made since the 1980s.
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Nov 29, 2002
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Reliable sources maintain that this 1980 film by Helma Sanders-Brahms was one of the finest to emerge from the new German cinema of that period.
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Jun 13, 2019
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Radim Spacek directed this Czech Republic/Slovak drama about the intersection of a Czech basketball team and post-World War II 1940's Eastern European history.
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Mar 28, 2019
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This uncomfortably intense true-crime thriller is only for viewers with a high threshold for graphic violence, as it imagines what news cameras couldn't show during the coordinated terrorist assaults on Mumbai between November 26 and 29, 2008.
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