Marathon FINALISTS
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ACTRESS’S STUDIO
Proposed Titles:
A Place in the Sun (S. Winters/Taylor, 1951)
Bus Stop (M. Monroe, 1956)
The Goddess (K. Stanley, 1958)
Wild River (Lee Remick, 1960)
Sweet Bird of Youth (G. Page, 1962)
Rachel, Rachel (J. Woodward, 1968)
BRAZILIAN CINEMA
Possible Titles:
Limite (1931, Peixoto )
Barren Lives (1963, dos Santos)
Black God, White Devil (1964, Rocha)
Macunaíma (1969, de Andrade)
Pixote (1980, Babenco)
Twenty Years Later (1984, Coutinho)
Central Station (1998, Salles)
City of God (2002, Meirelles & Lund)
Elite Squad (2007, Padilha)
Bacurau (2019, Mendonça Filho)
DISSIDENT CINEMA
Movies that critically depict or fight fascist governments.
Potential Titles:
The Great Dictator (Chaplin, 1940)
Rome, Open City (Rossellini, 1945)
No Regrets for Our Youth (Kurosawa, 1946)
The Human Condition – Part I (Kobayashi, 1959)
The Sound of Music (Wise, 1965)
Army of Shadows (Melville, 1969)
Z (Gavras, 1969)
The Sorrow and the Pity (Ophuls, 1969)
The Tin Drum (Schlöndorff, 1979)
Europa Europa (Holland, 1991)
Ulysses’ Gaze (1995) or The Travelling Players (1976)
Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang-dong, 1999)
El Conde (Larraín, 2023)
POSTWAR JAPANESE CINEMA
(Beyond Kurosawa & Ozu)
Proposed Titles:
Ugetsu (Mizoguchi, 1953)
Floating Clouds (Naruse, 1955)
The Ballad of Narayama (1958, Kinoshita)
The Human Condition – Part I: No Greater Love (Kobayashi, 1959)
Harakiri (1962, Kobayashi)
Woman in the Dunes (1964, Teshigahara)