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Nov 20, 2020 · Inspired by the aching vulnerabilities voiced by King in his own diaries, “The Twentieth Century” takes the form of a dizzying portal into the politician’s subconscious, casting real people from his life into roles that are either fictional or composites, just as King himself recast Hitler as Joan of Arc.
- Moulin Rouge
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- 'A Short Film About Killing' (1988) Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski. Human beings have debated for millennia if and when killing can be justified. The death penalty as a punishment always draws strong opinions; after all, if killing is so bad, why is the State allowed to do it?
- 'JFK' (1991) Director: Oliver Stone. Oliver Stone wrote that he made JFK "as a metaphor for all those doubts, suspicions and unanswered questions." Of course, he was referring to the dozens of widely believed conspiracy theories that try to unravel the mysterious tragedy.
- 'Victim' (1961) Director: Basil Dearden. It is hard to think of a more revolutionary film than Victim, released in Britain in 1961 when homosexuality was considered not only immoral but a crime people could go to jail for.
- 'Top Gun' (1986) Director: Tony Scott. There are few big-screen efforts more exciting than Top Gun, one of the best movies of 1986. Because what could be more thrilling than piloting a supersonic jet?
- 'Weekend' (2011) Heady but grounded in pragmatic reality, ecstatically romantic but marbled with sobering veins of melancholy, Andrew Haigh’s immersive account of a steamy hookup between two gay Nottingham men unfolds over 48 hours in what feels almost like real time.
- 'Black Panther' (2018) Navigating the Marvel Cinematic Universe — or is it a Multiverse now? — requires, for many of us, a certain tolerance for green or LED screens, mass destruction, snarky dialogue and cosmic shtick.
- 'Time' (2020) Garrett Bradley’s documentary observes the brutality of the American carceral system from an uncommon vantage point. The filmmaker jettisons the expository soundbites of talking heads and the contextual support of charts and numbers, choosing instead to construct an impressionistic portrait of one family’s specific experience.
- 'Bright Star' (2009) It’s the story of an unconsummated love affair in the final years of John Keats’ short life. Catnip for English majors? No question.
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Jun 9, 2017 · Manohla Dargis Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” is a 21st-century masterpiece about love, death, faith, greed and all the oil and blood gushing through the American 20th...
Apr 19, 2021 · By Caryn James,Features correspondent. Niko Tavernise/Netflix/Warner Bros Pictures/Josh Ethan Johnson, Courtesy of A24. From Nomadland to Minari, the films dominating the Oscars this year are a...
Mar 1, 2024 · 1. Mulholland Drive (2001) Film. Drama. This David Lynch masterpiece is a film split in half: a glamorous romance that suddenly morphs into bitter rejection, a Hollywood mystery that...
Dec 30, 1999 · Roger Ebert. 10 most influential films of the century. Roger Ebert December 30, 1999. Tweet. The motion picture was invented before 1900, but "the movies" as we know them are entirely a 20th century phenomenon, shaping our times and sharing these 100 years with us.
