Month: September, 2009
Sun 27 Sep 2009
La Strada
Category: Janus Challenge
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Director: Federico Fellini
Country: Italy
Year: 1954
“We don’t really know who woman is. She remains in that precise place within man where darkness begins. Talking about women means talking about the darkest part of ourselves, the undeveloped part, the true mystery within. In the beginning, I believe man was complete and androgynous-both male and female, or neither, [...]
Sun 20 Sep 2009
Director: Victor Erice
Country: Spain
Year: 1973
“Everyone has the capacity to create and recreate within them. And a film doesn’t exist unless it is seen—if there are no eyes to look at the images, the images don’t exist. When I’ve finished a film, it’s no longer mine—it belongs to the people. I’m nothing more than an intermediary [...]
Sun 13 Sep 2009
The Seventh Seal
Category: Janus Challenge
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Director: Ingmar Bergman
Country: Sweden
Year: 1957
“So gripping as to be entertaining in an enlightening way. Visually unforgetable.”James Monaco, The Movie Guide
“Piercing and powerful. Mr. Bergman hits you with it right between the eyes.”Bosley Crowther, The New York Times
“[I]t is constructed like an argument. It is a story told as a sermon might be delivered: an allegory…each [...]
Sun 6 Sep 2009
Seven Samurai
Category: Janus Challenge
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Director: Akira Kurosawa
Country: Japan
Year: 1954
“…it could be argued that this greatest of filmmakers gave employment to action heroes for the next 50 years, just as a fallout from his primary purpose. That purpose was to make a samurai movie that was anchored in ancient Japanese culture and yet argued for a flexible humanism in place [...]
