The Rules of the Game
“The awful thing about life is this: Everyone has his reasons.” - Octave, in Rules of the Game
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Richard III
Laurence Olivier made a trilogy of Shakespearean adaptations in the 1940s and 50s; Richard III was the last.
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Rashomon
Rashomon was shot in a matter of weeks, and is one of the only Kurosawa films that did not go over budget.
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Pygmalion
“German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen. The reformer England needs today is an energetic phonetic enthusiast: that is why I have made such a one the hero of a popular play.” - George Bernard Shaw
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Il Posto
“The sensation is that these choices of mine are not only mine but that others have them too. I really don’t feel exclusive... My ambition instead, perhaps because of my peasant-worker background, is to look at the world with others, not as an aristocratic intellectual.” - Ermanno Olmi
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Pandora’s Box
“I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you, it’ll be with a knife.” - Louise Brooks
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Miss Julie
Strindberg was married three times, produced a hundred or so abstract paintings, was a professional telegrapher and amateur alchemist, and claimed to have cast black magic spells on his daughter.
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