50´s
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Moby Dick (1956) – John Huston
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Toned-down, trippy-colored salty-candy trip about classic revenge and honorable madness. A well-manouvered, savagely hunted-down condensation of a source material “mastodon”.
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North by Northwest (1959) – Bernard Herrmann
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A paranoid soundtrack that feels followed by an invisible group of listeners in every escaping note as it pushes itself back into in curious desperation.
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Rio Bravo (1959) – Howard Hawks
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A Western with an afterparty feel to it that lacks nothing but is in no hurry to get anywhere fast and that works perfectly somehow.
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In a Lonely Place (1950) – Nicholas Ray
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You don´t let a dame in distress walk into your place for help twice without secretly testing your own fidelity to yourself and professional practice.
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Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely (1958) – Frank Sinatra
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Class-act whining coming straight from the Chairman´s sick-with-solitude vocal tract—a sound that is being perfectly escorted by a somberly enabling ensemble.
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The Man in the White Suit (1951) – Alexander Mackendrick
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Hunting down the single cleanest man on Earth to make him dirty like the rest of us is not such an easy task after all.
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North by Northwest (1959) – Alfred Hitchcock
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Trains and tunnels rushing for more while baby-blue bullets hide in excitement in hip-held politeness-pistols ready to dust clarity crops with mystery.
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Sunset Boulevard (1960) – Billy Wilder
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Stays enticing and incredibly abducting all the way thorough: from the first killer-shot till the last…from the first viewing to obsessing about it.
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Victory at Sea (1952-1953) – NBC
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An astounding set of newsreel-like pieces set in a frantic world-creating pace covering large-scale naval conflicts with nothing but grace and respect.
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Hollywood Babylon (1959) – Kenneth Anger
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A morbidly mordant red-carpet bombing campaign with its name-dropping making distant stars fall from the sky like an exquisite rain of grand pianos.
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Paths of Glory (1957) – Stanley Kubrick
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A battleground-breaking anti-war, anti memory-loss production that came out only twelve years after the great war cracked the Death atom-nerve open.
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Rear Window (1954) – Alfred Hitchcock
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What happens when you give a man with integrity the masked opportunity of minding other people’s business? No need to move to go too far.