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ACTRESS’S STUDIO

Close-up of Joanne Woodward in Rachel, Rachel.

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 push back against fascist governments.

An image from the movie Rome, Open City.

Potential Titles:

The Great Dictator (Chaplin, 1940)

Rome, Open City (Rossellini, 1945)

No Regrets for Our Youth (Kurosawa, 1946)

The Human Condition – Part I: No Greater Love (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)

Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang-dong, 1999)

El Conde (Larraín, 2023)

POSTWAR JAPANESE CINEMA
(Beyond Kurosawa & Ozu)

An image from the movie Ugetsu.

Proposed Titles:

Ugetsu (Mizoguchi, 1953)

Floating Clouds (Naruse, 1955)

The Ballad of Narayama (1958, Keisuke Kinoshita)

The Human Condition – Part I: No Greater Love (Kobayashi, 1959)

Harakiri (1962, Masaki Kobayashi)

Woman in the Dunes (1964, Hiroshi Teshigahara)

 


 
 

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