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L'ÂGE
D'OR (dir: Luis Buñuel, Not Rated) - Bart says, "Buñuel's
first feature still manages to shock - though not to the extent that
it did at the time of its release, when it caused angry
demonstrations and was universally banned. The bulk of the film
revolves around a young man and woman who are attracted to each
other but are constantly kept from doing what comes natural by all
the absurd institutions and bourgeois values that society has
created to prevent just that. The savage satire (of The Church, in
particular) for which Buñuel is famous is in full effect here, but
it took him nearly 40 years to start making films as
stream-of-consciousness as this one again and earn his reputation as
Master of the Surreal." |
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THE
BLUE ANGEL (dir: Josef von Sternberg,
Not Rated) – Bart says, "Sternberg's first of
eight team-ups with his muse Marlene Dietrich is also his best. It's
got all the exotic, elaborate set designs and destructive,
smoldering sexuality of the later films, but it doesn't get weighed
down in over-the-top melodrama. It's the simple story of a
respectable old teacher who becomes obsessed with a sexy showgirl
who treats him cruelly. Abject humiliation never looked so good!
Plus, it gets my vote as the first absolute masterpiece of the sound
era." |
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MOROCCO
(dir: Josef von Sternberg, Not Rated) |
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EARTH
(dir: Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Not Rated) |
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