Sight & Sound 2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #243 [tied]

World premiere: Feb. 20, 1983 (Berlin International Film Festival)

IMDB synopsis: “Set ten years after the most peaceful revolution in United States history, it presents a dystopia in which the issues of many groups – minorities, liberals, gay rights organizations, feminists – are dealt with by the government.”

Trailer for Born in Flames

Revolution Anniversary

WTC Explosion

Casablanca (1942; Directed by Michael Curtiz)

IMDb synopsis: “A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.”

Our review of Casablanca comes out Tuesday, Sep. 15!

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Sight & Sound 2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #66

World premiere: May 1973 (Cannes Film Festival)

IMDB synopsis: “Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.”

Trailer for Touki Bouki

Finale

Scorsese on Touki Bouki

Born in Flames (1983; Directed by Lizzie Borden)

IMDB synopsis: “Set ten years after the most peaceful revolution in United States history, it presents a dystopia in which the issues of many groups – minorities, liberals, gay rights organizations, feminists – are dealt with by the government.”

Our review of Born in Flames comes out Tuesday, Sep. 1!

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Sight & Sound 2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #157 [tied]

World premiere: Sept. 4, 1964 (Venice Film Festival)

IMDB synopsis: “The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Film shows Christ as a Marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew.”

Trailer for The Gospel According to St. Matthew

Walking on water

Entering Jerusalem

Cleansing the temple

Touki Bouki (1973; Directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty)

IMDB synopsis: “Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.”

Our review of Touki Bouki comes out Tuesday, Aug. 18!

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This week, Daniel and Corky rock the Casbah with their review of The Battle of Algiers. Shot with the urgency of breaking news, Gillo Pontecorvo’s landmark docu-thriller covers colonial occupation, violent rebellion and the human cost of revolution. But did your hosts join the resistance, or did they surrender to the film’s relentless power?

Sight & Sound 2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #45 [tied]

World premiere: Aug. 31, 1966 (Venice Film Festival)

IMDB synopsis: “In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.”

Trailer for The Battle of Algiers

Exploding women

The wrong man

One Battle After Another cameo

The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964; Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini)

IMDB synopsis: “The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Film shows Christ as a Marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew.”

Our review of The Gospel According to St. Matthew comes out Tuesday, Aug. 4!

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Sight & Sound 2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #108 [tied]

Theatrical premiere: April 22, 1962

IMDB synopsis: “A senator returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.”

Original theatrical trailer for The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Raising the steaks

Tom’s got a secret

Burning down the house

The Battle of Algiers (1966; Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo)

IMDB synopsis: “In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.”

Our review of The Battle of Algiers comes out Tuesday, July 21!

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Sight & Sound 2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #243 [tied]

World premiere: May 2000 (Cannes Film Festival)

IMDB synopsis: “A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.”

4K Restoration trailer for Werckmeister Harmonies

Opening scene

Let’s all go to the hospital

Final scene

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962; Dir.: John Ford)

IMDB synopsis: “A senator returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.”

Our review of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance comes out Tuesday, July 7!

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Corky McDonnell and his slovenly first mate Daniel Barnes continue their cinematic world tour with the most magically dreamlike movie ever set in a fetid, filthy, French canal. It’s no stretch to say that the 29-year-old Vigo killed himself to make a film that the soulless bean-counters killed first, but Vigo will live forever through L’Atalante  while those jerks are dead and forgotten, so let’s call it even. Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss great curmudgeons, the Chaplin method, and cat tossing.

Sight & Sound 2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #34

World premiere: April 25, 1934

IMDB synopsis: “Newly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L’atalante along with the captain’s first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.”

4K Restoration Trailer for L’Atalante

Underwater dance

Faraway, so close

“C’Atalante” cat montage

Werckmeister Harmonies (2000; Dir.: Bela Tarr)

IMDB synopsis: “A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.”

Our review of Werckmeister Harmonies comes out Tuesday, June 23!

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Daniel and Corky take a long drive into the past to review Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer and Kirk Douglas in Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past. The epitome of film noir, Out of the Past is everything your mind conjures when you think about the genre – the shadowy black-and-white photography, the doomed male and femme fatale archetypes, the bleakness and fatalism. But did your hosts Canon-ize the criminally underrated Tourneur, or did they find it Slight against all odds?

Sight & Sound 2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #157 [tied]

World premiere: Nov. 25, 1947

IMDB synopsis: “A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses, and duplicitous dames.”

Original theatrical trailer for Out of the Past

How to be a chump

Slap unhappy

Look who’s here

L’Atalante (1934; Dir.: Jean Vigo)

IMDB synopsis: “Newly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L’atalante along with the captain’s first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.”

Our review of L’Atalante comes out Tuesday, June 9!

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After spending several months deciding where to hold the annual Canon Fodder company retreat, Daniel and Corky slouch all the way from Cherbourg to Biarritz to review Eric Rohmer’s The Green Ray. Also known as Le Rayon Vert, the film follows the emotionally messy Delphine on her unsuccessful attempts to take a languorous French vacation. But did your hosts feel that Rohmer’s film Vert‘s so good or were they unable to get their Rayon on?

Sight & Sound 2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #225 [tied]

World premiere: Aug. 29, 1986

IMDB synopsis: “It’s July, and Delphine has nowhere to go for the summer. She feels very bored and “empty”, but this won’t last; one day she accidently meets someone who seems to be totally made for her…”

Theatrical trailer for The Green Ray

Delphine in the countryside

Hiding from the World

Out of the Past (1947; Dir.: Jacques Tourneur)

IMDB synopsis: “A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses, and duplicitous dames.”

Our review of Out of the Past comes out Tuesday, May 26!

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For their latest cinematic adventure, Daniel and Corky take a hang-gliding tour of 15th century Russia to review Andrei Tarkovsky’s remarkable Andrei Rublev. A visually awe-inspiring anti-biopic of the legendary icon painter, Andrei Rublev is about faith and art trampled by the entrenched powers of ignorance and avarice. But did your hosts succumb to the passion of this magnificent movie, or do they need to have their bells rung?

Sight & Sound 2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #67 [tied]

World premiere: Dec. 16, 1966 (Moscow)

IMDB synopsis: “The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.”

Restoration trailer for Andrei Rublev

The hang glider

The pagans

The bell maker

The Green Ray (1986; Dir.: Eric Rohmer)

IMDB synopsis: “It’s July, and Delphine has nowhere to go for the summer. She feels very bored and “empty”, but this won’t last; one day she accidently meets someone who seems to be totally made for her…”

Our review of The Green Ray comes out Tuesday, May 12!

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