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19/05/2026

Mirror (1975), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

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The Leopard (1963), directed by Luchino Visconti

On set: Luchino Visconti and Burt Lancaster during the production of The Leopard, where aristocratic decay is staged with almost unbearable stillness…

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Marcello Masttroianni

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Vivre sa vie (1962), directed by Jean-Luc Godard

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Top 10 Films According to Alex Proyas (The Crow (1994) dir. Alex Proyas)

1. Citizen Kane (1941), directed by Orson Welles
2. Dr. Strangelove (1964), directed by Stanley Kubrick
3. The Exorcist (1973), directed by William Friedkin
4. The Godfather (1972), directed by Francis Ford Coppola
5. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), directed by Frank Capra
6. Lawrence of Arabia (1962), directed by David Lean
7. North by Northwest (1959), directed by Alfred Hitchcock
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), directed by Miloš Forman
9. The Third Man (1949), directed by Carol Reed
10. The Wizard of Oz (1939), directed by Victor Fleming

19/05/2026

On this day 42 years ago Once Upon a Time in America (1984), directed by Sergio Leone, was released in France.

Sergio Leone’s final film is less a gangster epic than a vast architecture of memory. Moving through o***m dreams, betrayals, and vanished New York streets, Once Upon a Time in America dissolves chronology itself: childhood, ambition, violence, and regret drift into one another like unstable recollections.

The European release preserved Leone’s original structure, unlike the heavily truncated American cut issued the same year.
Robert De Niro’s performance, Ennio Morricone’s mournful score, and Leone’s obsessive visual rhythm together created a film suspended somewhere between historical epic and fading hallucination.

19/05/2026

On this day 36 years ago The Godfather Part III (1990), directed by Francis Ford Coppola, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in France.

The closing movement of Coppola’s Corleone saga arrived not as a continuation, but as an elegy. The Godfather Part III transforms the operatic violence of the earlier films into something colder and more exhausted: a meditation on guilt, succession, and spiritual decay. Al Pacino’s Michael Corleone is no longer a prince of organized crime, but an aging man attempting the impossible task of separating power from memory.

18/05/2026

Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman in From the Terrace (1960), directed by Mark Robson, based on the novel by John O’Hara.

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Stanley Kubrick directing Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove (1964).

Peter Sellers once remarked: “If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.”

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Robert Redford and Brad Pitt in Spy Game (2001), directed by Tony Scott.

Roger Ebert described the film as “clever and crafted with strong control,” but emotionally detached—well made, yet difficult to truly care about.

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