Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Scandal (Shubun) (1950)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Shirley Yamaguchi, Takashi Shimura… - This excellent early Kurosawa, has Mifune playing a painter who becomes acquainted with a pop–singer, and thus the target of a tabloid…
Story of a Love Affair (Cronaca di un amore) (1950)- Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Feat. Lucia Bose, Massimo Girotti, Ferdinando Sarmi - Although more stylistically conventional than his 'mature' films, dir. Antonioni's debut feature is a strongly delivered, almost film noir,…
Stromboli (1950)
- Dir. Roberto Rossellini
Feat. Ingrid Bergman - After his neo–realist masterpieces, this is one of the dir.'s best films, concerning a WW2 refugee who hastily marries an Italian fisherman and…
Summer Interlude (1950)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin - Perhaps Bergman's first significant work, about an aging ballerina who reflects on a youthful romance with her now–deceased lover in moody…
Variety Lights (1950)- Dir. Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada
Feat. Giulietta Masina - Fellini co–directed this carnivalesque drama about a mediocre theatre troupe in need of a crowd puller before breaking out solo with THE WHITE…
56 Rue Pigalle (1949)- Dir. Willy Rozier
Feat. Raymond Cordy, Marie Dea - Distinctive French noir telling the tale of a boss, suspected of murdering his blackmailing manservant, who flees to Africa with his mistress once…
De Sica Collection, The (The Bicycle Thief, Miracle in Milan, The Roof) (1949-1956)- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
- Three films from Italian master Vittorio De Sica. Includes the previously unreleased THE ROOF (1956).
Late Spring (1949)
- Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu - Ozu’s greatest film outside of the universally acclaimed TOKYO STORY magically distils the director’s reoccurring family concerns: that of a…
Orpheus (Orphee) (1949)- Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Jean Marais, Maria Casares, Marie Dea… - Cocteau's surrealist retelling of the classical tragedy stars Jean Marais as Orphee, the writer who retrieves his wife Eurydice from the dead. A…
Quiet Duel, The (Shizukanaru ketto) (1949)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura - A pre–RED BEARD Toshiro Mifune plays an idealistic doctor who fatally contracts syphilis from performing surgery in this minor Kurosawa…
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