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Summer Hours- Olivier ASSAYAS
- France
- 2008
- 103min
The mother, with a natural sense of art which is inherited in the family generation after generation, collected artworks and antique furniture all her life. She tries to talk about...
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The Housemaid- KIM Ki-Young
- Korea
- 1960
- 108min
Made around the same time as Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom and Hitchcock’s Psycho, Kim Ki-young’s weird classic has a mood and neo-gothic visual stylings to rival eith...
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Tokyo Story- OZU Yasujiro
- Japan
- 1953
- 136min
What do our parents, the people who raised us with the best of intentions, really think of us? And do we really want to know? In Ozu Yasujiro’s tender, breathtaking Tokyo Story<...
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Rashomon- KUROSAWA Akira
- Japan
- 1950
- 88min
*an extract from an original writing for Asian Cinema 100 […] This transcendence is already inscribed in certain aspects of the film itself. The photographic quality of the...
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A City of Sadness- HOU Hsiao-hsien
- Taiwan
- 1989
- 160min
In the opening shot of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s masterpiece, A City of Sadness, a voice emanating from the radio declares the liberation of Taiwan from Japanese imperial rule. A lo...
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Seven Samurai- KUROSAWA Akira
- Japan
- 1954
- 207min
It is likely that Kurosawa Akira’s Seven Samurai (1954) is the most frequently remade film in all of world cinema. Though certainly the same director’s Rashomon (1951...
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A Brighter Summer Day- Edward YANG
- Taiwan
- 1991
- 237min
A Brighter Summer Day was inspired by a true incident, a touchstone from Yang’s youth: the killing of a 14-year-old girl by a male high school student in Taipei on June 15, ...
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Spring in a Small Town- FEI Mu
- China
- 1948
- 93min
In China’s official film history, Fei Mu is labeled as an ideologically irresolute petit bourgeois artist, because he never joined the Leftist filmmakers camp. Fei Mu’s final work ...
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Still Life- JIA Zhangke
- China,Hong Kong,China
- 2006
- 112min
When Still Life was screened at the Venice Film Festival, a surprise entry that received the Golden Lion, I realized that our Jia Zhangke had become the “internationally ren...
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Close Up- Abbas KIAROSTAMI
- Iran
- 1990
- 90min
It all started from a magazine article. In 1989, Abbas Kiarostami read an article in an Iranian magazine called Sorush. It was about a guy who impersonated Mohsen Makhmalbaf...