Top 25 Films of the 1930s
25. Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein, Russia, 1938) 24. The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock, UK, 1938) It seems that 1935’s The 39 Steps has become the consensus pick for the masterpiece of Hitchcock’s British...
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25. The Ornamental Hairpin (Shimizu, Japan, 1941) Hiroshi Shimizu’s film about a disparate group of vacationers staying at a hot springs resort for the summer starts off as a comedy and then...
View ArticleA Pre-War Japanese Cinema Primer
For most of the past year I’ve been on a big Japanese cinema kick, and that includes checking out a healthy dose of movies made there before the Second World War – a period much less well known than...
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