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Kurosawa's blackly humorous film, executed in the style of the American Western, is a sophisticated satire on greed, violence, paranoia, and human weakness. In a nonchalant manner reminiscent of a Bogart hero, a wandering samurai-for-hire (Mifune) turns the war between two clans fighting for ...

Bergman carefully sets the stage for romantic intrigue in Smiles of a Summer Night, his brilliant breakthrough film. At a country estate in turn-of-the-century Sweden, eight characters become four couples during a long, languorous summer night. Under the spell of a mysterious elixir, the ...

Vittorio De Sica's (The Bicycle Thief) award-winning masterpiece Miracle in Milan is one of the watershed films of the Italian cinema renaissance. With fantasy, satire, and biting humor, the story of Toto, an abandoned newborn who is raised by a kindly old lady to be a paragon of ...