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The Bellboy 1960
Brilliant/annoying as only Lewis knew how to be, you just can't have one without the other, more formally inventive than a proper laugh riot, very assured both artistically and where power is concerned, not to mention a good argument against the endless 'there was no innovation in American movies prior to the arrival of New Hollywood' litany.
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Scarface 1983
It's probably a little absurd to talk about De Palma's Scarface in these terms, but for all its excess and heightened nature, formally it is still very unostentatious, what are usually seen as the director's trademarks never getting in the way of the movie. Pacino is phenomenal as a rat not entirely devoid of a moral compass, a vicious thug at times verging on caricature, admittedly a very calculated and ebullient send off of the American gangster tradition, from Capone…
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The Negro Soldier 1944
"The treatment accorded to the Negro during the Second World War marks, for me, a turning point in the Negro's relation to America. To put it briefly, and somewhat too simply, a certain hope died, a certain respect for white Americans faded. One began to pity them, or to hate them. You must put yourself in the skin of a man who is wearing the uniform of his country, is a candidate for death in its defense, and who is…
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Go Ahead, Brazil! 1982
"Hoje, uma página virada na história de um país que não pode perder a perspectiva do futuro."
Gol da Tchecoslováquia.