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PopMatters Picks: The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own Feature

Part 4: Challenging Convention

by PopMatters Staff

[21.Jun.07] :. As cinema went completely commercial, abandoning art for artifice, true aesthetic acumen was hard to come by. Luckily, for the movies included herein, it was their difference, as well as their diversity, that helped them stand out from the rest of the high concept hackwork.

PopMatters Picks: The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own

 

PopMatters Picks: The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own Feature

Part 2: The Changing Face of Filmmaking

by PopMatters Staff

[19.Jun.07] :. Every staid situation needs shaking up, none more so that the labored Hollywood studio system. The titles chosen for this section stand out as reasons why things had to change, the results of those seismic stylistic shifts.

PopMatters Picks: The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own

 

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The Red Tent (1971)

by Leigh H. Edwards

[22.Aug.05] :. The 1971 Sean Connery film recounts the true story of an ill-fated 1928 expedition to the North Pole. In a dirigible.

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Burden of Dreams: Criterion Collection (1982)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Aug.05] :. Complex, ambitious, inspired, Herzog here talks his way through the making of his movie with a remarkable self-consciousness.

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Once Upon a Time in the West: Special Collector’s Edition (1968)

by Elbert Ventura

[17.Nov.03] :. Sergio Leone never met a portentous entrance he didn't like.

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