Vertigo opens in perhaps the most perfect way: three men are running across rooftops in San Francisco. The sky is a perfect combination of black and blue – the moon’s light spreading…
Tag: 1958
Whether Yasujiro Ozu’s final six films, all of which were shot in color, can be categorized into an entirely separate artistic phase of his is a debatable idea. Essentially, his films undergo…
Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958) is now considered the greatest film of all time according to the critics that voted in the British Film Institute’s 2012 Sight & Sound poll. The survey, which…
Andrzej Wajda’s Ashes and Diamonds (‘Popiol i diament’, 1955) is considered as one of the most important Polish films of all time. Championed by Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, this film…
The unbridled energy, immediacy and meticulously visualized set-pieces in Youssef Chahine’s Cairo Station (aka ‘Bab el hadid’, 1958) could serve as the fine introduction point to one of Egypt’s most renowned and…