(USA 1933) Rouben Mamoulian: Queen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between the throne and the man she loves. The sheer presence of Garbo in this startlingly profound performance is completely and utterly mesmerising; with Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Louis Stone.
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(Chile/Argentine/France 2016) Pablo Larrain: An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party. Inventive, intelligent, and beautifully filmed, Neruda transcends the traditional biopic structure to look at the meaning beyond the details of its subject's life; with Gael Garcia Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes Moran.
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(USA 1939) John Ford: A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process. Typifying the best that the Western genre has to offer, Stagecoach is a rip-roaring adventure given dramatic heft by Ford's dynamic direction and Wayne's mesmerising star turn; with John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine.
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(Iran 2016) Asghar Farhadi: While Ranaa and Emad, a married couple, are participating in a production of Death of a salesman, she is assaulted in their new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife's traumatised objections. The salesman takes an ambitiously complex look at thought-provoking themes, and the well-acted results prove another consistently absorbing entry in writer-director Farhadi's distinguished filmography; with Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Mina Sadati.
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(USA 1975) Sidney Lumet: Three amateur robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does. Framed by great work from director Lumet and fueled by a gripping performance from Pacino, Dog day afternoon offers a finely detailed snapshot of people in crisis with tension-soaked drama shaded in black humour; with Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning.
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