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Introducing my personal “Sight and Sound” greatest films challenge

Posted on January 4, 2023February 4, 2023 by Peter

Last year, the British Film Institute released its decennial list of The Greatest Films of All Time, as decided by a survey of over 1,600 critics and scholars. This year, as something of a New Years Resolution, I’m going to try to watch all 100 of these movies, and write a little bit about each…

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Masayuki Mori and Kinuyo Tanaka in Ugetsu

Sight & Sound Challenge #90 (tie): “Ugetsu Monogatari” (1953)

Posted on February 4, 2023February 4, 2023 by Peter

How far would you go for success? How far is too far? In Kenji Mizoguchi’s “Ugestsu,” two families in feudal Japan are destroyed by the greed and ambition of man — with women paying the true price. With the countryside gripped by civil war, rural villagers Genjūrō and Miyagi manage to make a tidy sum…

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Burt Lancaster in The Leopard

Sight & Sound Challenge #90 (tie): “The Leopard” (1963)

Posted on February 4, 2023February 4, 2023 by Peter

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. … The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that…

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Danielle Darrieux and Vittorio De Sica in The Earrings of Madame de...

Sight & Sound Challenge #90 (tie): “The Earrings of Madame de…” (1953)

Posted on January 27, 2023January 27, 2023 by Peter

Louise (Danielle Darrieux), a wealthy Parisian aristocrat desperately and secretly in debt, sells the diamond earrings her husband, André (Charles Boyer), a famed general, gave her as a wedding gift. Following an amusing and cleverly plotted series of lies and revelations, the earrings come back into André’s possession — he knows she sold them and…

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Sakda Kaewbuadee and Banlop Lomnoi sitting and talking in a forest pavilion in Tropical Malady

Sight & Sound Challenge #95 (tie): “Tropical Malady” (2004)

Posted on January 23, 2023January 26, 2023 by Peter

Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Tropical Malady” is utterly strange, the first movie I can remember in quite a while that I started again from the beginning immediately after finishing. The film begins as a meandering contemporary romance between a young Thai solider named Keng and a naive farm boy named Tong. Then, about halfway in, the narrative…

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Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda in "Once Upon a Time in the West"

Sight & Sound Challenge #95 (tie): “Once Upon a Time in the West” (1968)

Posted on January 19, 2023January 26, 2023 by Peter

I have to admit, I’ve never been much of a Western guy. In college, I watched (and really enjoyed) “High Noon” and “Unforgiven” for a class on masculinity in film. (Aside: Here’s a paper I wrote contrasting the two for that class [PDF]. I haven’t read it in well over a decade, but I just…

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