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Subgenre Sampler
Elevator to the Gallows (Lift to the Scaffold, aka. Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud) (1958)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly… - A young Jeanne Moreau stars in this elegant thriller about a crime of passion that backfires when the murderer gets trapped in a lift. Ambience par…
Giants and Toys (1958)- Dir. Yasuzo Masumura
Feat. Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe - Japanese satirical comedy about an advertising war between three candy production companies, and a teenage girl who becomes a celebrity after one of…
Hidden Fortress (1958)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune - Toshiro Mifune displays astounding skill with horse and sword as the ultimate warrior in this innovative amalgam of fairy–tale and Samurai…
Le Beau Serge (1958)- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Jean-Claude Brialy, Gerard Blain - Accepted as the first film of the French New Wave, this Claude Chabrol drama tells the story of a man returning to his hometown only to discover his…
Magician, The (The Face) (1958)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Max von Sydow - Bergman's allegorical self–portrait of a controversial travelling magician who exacts revenge on a cynical doctor, but becomes trapped in his…
Mon Oncle (1958)- Dir. Jacques Tati
Feat. Jacques Tati - Monsieur Hulot returns in another gag–laden adventure. His whimsical ways endear him to his nephew, but leave the boy's trendy parents cold.…
Cranes are Flying, The (Letyat Zhuravli) (1957)
- Dir. Mikhail Kalatozov
Feat. Tatyana Samojlova, Aleksei Batalov, Vasili Merkuryev - A Russian classic which conveys homefront anxieties during WW2 for a young bride whose original fiance has gone to the front. Pursued by his…
Il Grido (The Outcry) (1957)- Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Feat. Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Betsy Blair - This lesser–known work from Antonioni provides a missing link between Italian neorealism and the director's later works like L'AVVENTURA,…
Le Notti Bianche (White Nights) (1957)- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell, Jean Marais… - A departure from neo–realist beginnings, this surreal Visconti masterwork adapts Dostoyevsky’s ‘White Nights’ through dreamlike art…
Lower Depths, The (Donzoko) (1957)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Kyoko Kagawa, Isuzu Yamada… - Arresting Maxim Gorky stage adaptation (previously filmed by Jean Renoir) is transposed to Japan’s Edo–era slums. Social realisms and the…
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