An Ode To Cinema, For All Cinephiles

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Celebrating Cinematic Art

“The visuals are the real magic of the cinema.”
David Lean, British film director
“I believe cinema is a new art.”
Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director and screenwriter
“A movie is only as great as the sum of all of its parts.”
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“My whole life has been movies and religion. That’s it. Nothing else.”
Martin Scorsese, US film director and patron of World Cinema

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Letter Never Sent

1959-1960 | Mikhail Kalatozov | Georgia/Soviet | Adventure Drama

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Movie Review: Intolerance

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...

Movie Review: The Naked Island

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...

Movie Review: The 400 Blows (Les 400 coups)

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...