by The Movie Love Ambassador | Mar 29, 2023 | By the Movie Love Ambassador
Ranking: #93/111 Director: D.W. Griffith (USA) Genre: Epic Social Drama Intolerance set the standard for spectacular sets in cinema as far back as in 1916, with D.W. Griffith being one of the great pioneers of epic dramas in...
by The Movie Love Ambassador | Mar 29, 2023 | By the Movie Love Ambassador
Ranking: #92/111 Director: Kaneto Shindo (Japan) Genre: Pastoral Drama This is a moving, poetic film about a harsh life of subsistence farming on a small and remote Japanese island. Its beauty lies in its delicate cinematography, in its recreation of the timeless...
by The Movie Love Ambassador | Mar 29, 2023 | By the Movie Love Ambassador
Ranking: #91/111 Director: Francois Truffaut (France) Genre: Coming-of-Age Drama This coming-of-age drama is semi-autobiographical, based on the director’s adolescence. The grey palette used by Truffaut in this black-and-white movie suits the sombre portrait of a boy...
by The Movie Love Ambassador | Mar 28, 2023 | By the Movie Love Ambassador
Ranking: #90/111 Director: Roberto Rossellini (Italy) Genre: Post-War Social Drama This incisive masterpiece of Neo Realism, shot in stark black-and-white photography amongst the actual rubble of Berlin of the time, provides a memorable and authentic portrait of...
by The Movie Love Ambassador | Mar 28, 2023 | By the Movie Love Ambassador
Ranking: #89/111 Director: Fritz Lang (Germany) Genre: Film Noir Crime Thriller This major psychological crime thriller was German film legend Fritz Lang’s first sound film. He makes a seamless transition from silent to a talking movie, showing how skilful he was as a...
by The Movie Love Ambassador | Mar 28, 2023 | By the Movie Love Ambassador
Ranking: #88/111 Director: Michelangelo Antonioni (Italy) Genre: Social Drama/Romance In La Notte (The Night), Antonioni, a master of filming physical locations and the geometric spaces in which his characters move and interact, has created a striking black-and-white...
