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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…
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich von Stroheim… - Faded screen vamp Gloria Swanson and screenwriter William Holden exploit each other mercilessly in this searing dissection of Hollywood decadence,…
Three Came Home (1950)- Dir. Jean Negulesco
Feat. Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Florence Desmond… - Harrowing true life tale of a woman's imprisonment in several Japanese prisoner–of–war camps from 1941 to the end of WWII.
Three Secrets (1950)- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Eleanor Parker, Patricia Neal, Ruth Roman - Three women exchange handkerchiefs and spill their secrets while awaiting news of their children after a plane crashes. You may need the tissues…
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…
All the King's Men (1949)- Dir. Robert Rossen
Feat. Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge - Broderick Crawford brilliantly plays a well intentioned but bullheaded Southern senator whose thirst for power sets him on the road to ruin. Fine…
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