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Subgenre Sampler
Pickpocket (1959)
- Dir. Robert Bresson
- Dir. Bresson's austere meditation on the motive personal forces of criminal enterprise, this trails a directionless young man into a flirtation with…
Umberto D. (1959)
- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Carlo Battisti, Maria-Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari - A pensioner struggles to make ends meet in post–war Italy. Gloomy neo–realist piece wrenches the heart through a compassionate lead…
World of Apu, The (1959)- Dir. Satyajit Ray
Feat. Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty - Final installment of the 'Apu trilogy' sees the complexities of adulthood painfully and euphorically realised for Apu through ambition, marriage and…
Ballad of Narayama, The (Narayama bushiko) (1958)- Dir. Keisuke Kinoshita
Feat. Kinuyo Tanaka - Sombre but stylised retelling of a Japanese legend, about a poverty–stricken village and its eldest resident who, in accordance with tradition,…
Brink of Life (Nara Livet) (1958)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Eva Dahlbeck, Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson… - Minor, but accomplished Bergman potboiler concerns three women in a maternity ward, who must each decide whether to give up their babies for…
Elevator to the Gallows (Lift to the Scaffold, aka. Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud) (1958)- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly… - A young Jeanne Moreau stars in this elegant thriller about a crime of passion that backfires when the murderer gets trapped in a lift. Ambience par…
Le Beau Serge (1958)- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Jean-Claude Brialy, Gerard Blain - Accepted as the first film of the French New Wave, this Claude Chabrol drama tells the story of a man returning to his hometown only to discover his…
Magician, The (The Face) (1958)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Max von Sydow - Bergman's allegorical self–portrait of a controversial travelling magician who exacts revenge on a cynical doctor, but becomes trapped in his…
Cranes are Flying, The (Letyat Zhuravli) (1957)- Dir. Mikhail Kalatozov
Feat. Tatyana Samojlova, Aleksei Batalov, Vasili Merkuryev - A Russian classic which conveys homefront anxieties during WW2 for a young bride whose original fiance has gone to the front. Pursued by his…
Il Grido (The Outcry) (1957)- Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Feat. Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Betsy Blair - This lesser–known work from Antonioni provides a missing link between Italian neorealism and the director's later works like L'AVVENTURA,…
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