An all-time-great staircase movie. The inevitable American remake should be directed by the ghost of William Wyler.
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The Life of Oharu 1952
The kind of film, and viewing experience, that makes you wanna dock half a star from everything you’ve ever graded on here.
And it ain’t even top 5 Mizoguchi.
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I Am Not a Witch 2017
This wonderful film is just lurking in Netflix like it’s no big deal.
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The Other Side of the Wind 2018
"Blown" away, ha ha. Huston's monolithic, petrifying performance is the thing that instantly sticks. But so, so, so much is packed in there. I can't recall seeing a film that's…
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The Magnificent Ambersons 1942
The kind of film where it feels like the whole breadth of the human experience is contained in the two-second pause that Isabel holds in saying "Soon...soon..." to Eugene.
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Model Shop 1969
I'm awash with emotion right now for various reasons. But seeing this unbelievably accomplished piece of Angeleno Neorealism—one of the only films of its kind—makes me see the silver linings…
Lists
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josh lewis 285 films
The Top 100 American Films of the 70s
devin dulany 100 films
Top 100 East/Southeast Asian Films of All-Time
devin dulany 100 films
The 'Official' Letterboxd Top 100 European Films of All-Time
devin dulany 100 films
Kinema Junpo's Top Japanese Film Of Each Year (1930-)
trolleyfreak 86 films
The BBC 100: Centenary of Cinema 1995
desdemoor 101 films
The Arrow Academy Collection
Artyficial 73 films
Notes Toward a New Fabulism
Jake Gatsby Welles 90 films
Letterboxd 50: Germany
Rahat Ahmed 50 films
Letterboxd 50: Spain
Rahat Ahmed 50 films