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Prince of Darkness 1987
After the commercial failure of the miscellaneous eccentricity of Big Trouble in Little China (1986) it was appropriately logical that the insatiable talent of John Carpenter would opt to return to his roots, more ''frugal'' productions and more freedom for his creative auteurism in a territory with budgetary limitations but with an infinity of ideas to develop. Prince of Darkness is a film of self-discovery for its director, it is so self-referential that it functions as the multiform illation of…
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Woman They Almost Lynched 1953
This neglected and alluring melodramatic western is one of the finest achievements of one of poverty row's most prolific production companies, the juicy, diversity-synthesizing Republic Pictures. Made in 1953 and at the peak of its cheap glory, this production company specializing in B productions shows us with this visionary western that it is a gem-generating machine just as substantial as any other A-level production. Woman They Almost Lynched is unabashedly informal and its writing evokes the raucously reckless energy of…
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Elvis 2022
There are not a few, but several particular moments in this festive hymn to the king of rock and roll in which you can energetically hear a mixture of modern hip hop in the 50's as if it were a musical solecism, that's when you become aware that you are not only in a sonorous extravaganza but also in one of the anachronistic worlds of the singularly eccentric Baz Luhrmann.
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The Lower Depths 1936
It is not one of Jean Renoir's canonical works but it is one of his most substantive pieces that embodies the climacteric year during his career in the emblematic period of French poetic realism in the 1930s. A decisive decade for the formation of an impending world war, and 1936 is key to understanding the role of French cinema in the political and social conjuncture from an extraordinarily filmic perspective. The visionary auteur Jean Renoir had his ideological priorities previously…
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Swamp Water 1941
You can almost taste the discomfort and restraint that Jean Renoir's immeasurable talent suffers from being subjected to work under the rigid and square systems of American cinema for the first time in his career.
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Prey 2022
I think it's already a majority consensus to affirm that this is the best Predator sequel/prequel since 1987, right?
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