Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Otto Preminger Collection, The (The Moon is Blue, Saint Joan, Advise and Consent, Anatomy of a Filmmaker) (1953-1991)- Dir. Otto Preminger
- Attractively–packaged Preminger trifecta, with the added bonus ANATOMY OF A FILMMAKER, a thorough two–hour documentary on the…
Return to Paradise (1953)- Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Gary Cooper, Barry Jones, Roberta Haynes - Understated drama with Cooper as a carefree drifter content to live aimlessly in his Pacific Island paradise. His idyllic existence is threatened by…
Sawdust and Tinsel (Gycklarnas Afton) (1953)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Ake Gronberg - This grim flipside to Fellini’s loony, carnivalesque films powerfully relays the degradation of several circus performers at the end of their…
Seminole (1953)- Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Rock Hudson, Barbara Hale, Anthony Quinn… - Superlative Western set against the backdrop of 1835 Florida, where Rock Hudson plays a West Pointer Lieutenant who, on the insistence of Richard…
Story of Gilbert and Sullivan, The (1953)
- Dir. Sidney Gilliat
Feat. Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Eileen Herlie… - Spirited biopic of the careers of W.S. Gilbert, a barrister turned–comic–writer, and Arthur Sullivan, a classic composer (converted…
Story of Three Loves, The (1953)- Dir. Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt
Feat. Pier Angeli, Ethel Barrymore, Leslie Caron… - Romantic anthology film telling three separate stories in flashbacks experienced by three characters on board the same ocean liner. "The Jealous…
Tokyo Story (1953)
- Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara - The master of Japanese cinema, this is Ozu's masterpiece. An emotional tour–de–force is drawn from an elderly couple's ill–fated…
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)- Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Feat. Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo, Kinuyo Tanaka - Stories by the 18th century writer Akinari Ueda are woven into an odyssey of civil–war misfortune, in which two peasant–potters and their…
Voyage to Italy (Journey to Italy/ Journey in Italy) (1953)- Dir. Roberto Rossellini
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders - A meditative journey through the landscapes of Italy, accompanying Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders in the midst of a breakup. The ongoing drama of…
Bad and the Beautiful, The (1952)- Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon… - Masterpiece of Hollywood navel–gazing, with charismatic producer Kirk Douglas clawing his way to success on a Freudian subtext, using and…
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