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Masters of cinema volume no. 1
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In this tale of temptation and redemption, the pleasant and peaceful life of a naive country man is turned upside down when he falls for a cold-blooded yet seductive woman from the city. She tries to persuade him to drown his virtuous wife and come back to the city with her.
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The film was Fridrikh Ermler's last silent feature and last of four productively contentious collaborations with the method actor Fiodor Nikitin. To prepare for his part as Filimonov, a soldier suffering from total amnesia due to shell shock from the Great War, Nikitin apparently disguised himself as a doctor's assistant in the Forel Psychiatric Clinic to study actual amnesia patients. Meanwhile, Ermler creates a profoundly realistic and moving portrait...
4) Samsara
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Prepare yourself for an unparalleled sensory experience. Filmed over a period of almost five years and in twenty-five countries, it explores the wonders of the world from sacred grounds to industrial sites, looking into the unfathomable reaches of man's spirituality and the human experience. Photographed entirely in 70mm and transferred to 4K digital projection format, its mesmerizing images of unprecedented clarity illuminate the links between humanity...
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Restoration of "The dragon painter", full-length 1919 feature in which Hayakawa plays Tatsu, a wild youth living in the mountain forests of Japan, spending all his time painting. Although Tatsu creates beautiful art, local villagers believe that he is insane, as he claims that he has a beloved princess fiancée who has been turned into a dragon. When an renowned-but-aging artist hears of the young hermit's talent, Tatsu is brought to civilization...
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Eclipse volume ser. 10
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For two brothers, the daily grind of bullies and mean teachers is nothing compared to the mortification they feel when they come to understand their good-natured father's low-rung social status. A blithe portrait of the financial and psychological toils of one family, from the standpoint of a couple of stubborn little boys.
11) A dog's life
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A man tries to succeed in a big city with his dog as a companion.
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"One of the most innovative and influential films of the silent era, Dziga Vertov's 'Man with a movie camera' utilizes rapid editing and innumerable other cinematic effects to create a work of amazing modernity and power. This dawn-to-dusk view of urban Soviet life shows people at work, at play, and at the machines that endlessly whirl to keep the metropolis alive. It was Vertov's first full-length film, and it employs all the cinematic techniques...
13) Herr Tartüff
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In this film, F. W. Murnau revisits Moliere's fable of religious hypocrisy, in which a faithful wife tries to convince her husband that their morally superior guest, the title character, is in fact a lecherous hypocrite with a taste for the grape. To endow the story with contemporary relevance, Murnau frames Moliere's tale with a modern-day plot concerning a housekeeper's stealthy efforts to poison her elderly master and take control of his estate....
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In the film, Baruch, the son of a rabbi, becomes fascinated by the theater. Against his father's wishes, Baruch leaves home and finds his way to Vienna, where an archduchess at the imperial court falls in love with him. She becomes his patron, facilitating his successful career as a classical actor. However, Baruch continues to long for home, and must find a way to reconcile his religious heritage with his love of secular literature.
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Cheyenne Harry is a role Carey would play into the 1930s, an amiable antihero who pals around with outlaws but who really has a heart of gold. In this film, Harry is hired by rancher Thunder Flint to intimidate the kindly Sweetwater Sims off of his farmland but has a change of heart after getting to know Sims' family. It becomes a war of ranchers against farmers as Flint organizes a siege of Sims' property, with Harry and other local farmers banded...
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Eliza is a slave who flees a Kentucky plantation after her son and a dignified father figure, Uncle Tom, are sold to a rival landowner. Her Dickensian quest eventually places her in the backwater kingdom of the sadistic Simon Legree. But the film's most memorable sequence is Eliza's flight to freedom across a treacherous ice floe (a staple of the many stage productions, which D.W. Griffith shamelessly appropriated for his 1920 film Way Down East)....
17) Way down East
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A poor country girl is tricked into a fake marriage and has an illegitimate child who dies. After starting a new life, her past is exposed and she is evicted into a blizzard.
18) College
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Ronald, an idealistic freshman who attends Clayton College in pursuit of higher learning, but finds himself instead embroiled in a war of athletics as he fights for the heart of his beloved coed, Mary. In a series of unforgettable vignettes, stone-faced Ronald tries his hand as a baseball player, soda jerk, waiter, coxswain, and track star, performing each task with a steady determination but with consistently disastrous results.
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Eliza is a slave who flees a Kentucky plantation after her son and a dignified father figure, Uncle Tom, are sold to a rival landowner. Her Dickensian quest eventually places her in the backwater kingdom of the sadistic Simon Legree. But the film's most memorable sequence is Eliza's flight to freedom across a treacherous ice floe (a staple of the many stage productions, which D.W. Griffith shamelessly appropriated for his 1920 film Way Down East)....
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