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Jonas Mekas

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Zero for Conduct (1933) 94% “Those faces of children in Zero for Conduct! In no other film have I seen faces like these. Those eyes, those motions, those smiles, those countenances, always ready for mischief.” – Village Voice May 2, 2024 Full Review The Last Picture Show (1971) 98% “A perfectly beautiful movie, because Bogdanovich knows perfectly the limits of styles and forms and he keeps it clear and pure, within the limits he set for himself. ” – Village Voice Oct 25, 2023 Full Review Lonelyhearts (1958) 70% “Montgomery Clift, though perfectly cast, is unable to save the film by himself.” – Village Voice Apr 20, 2022 Full Review The Defiant Ones (1958) 90% “One can feel that Kramer, instead of letting the idea grow from an inner necessity, started with a cliche: "Now I am going to make a social film."” – Village Voice Apr 20, 2022 Full Review Ugetsu (1953) 100% “Ugetsu, with its many adventures and accidents and stories, is a well-constructed work of art, growing out of a sense of drama.” – Village Voice Apr 20, 2022 Full Review The Seventh Seal (1957) 93% “Obsessed with the ideas of love, life, death, good and evil, [Bergman] mediates as he goes, taking in symbols, in parables and images that are often of breathtaking beauty.” – Village Voice Apr 20, 2022 Full Review Mon Oncle (1958) 94% “It is not a comedy of gags or funny lines (the only kinds of comedy left in Hollywood); here tragedy and comedy go together, enriching each other, contrasting and balancing between laughter and tears.” – Village Voice Apr 20, 2022 Full Review Pather Panchali (1955) 98% “It is most simple, most down to earth, and from the very heart. Specifically it is about India, but actually it is about everybody. The poetry of the film transcends its locality and speaks to us all.” – Village Voice Apr 20, 2022 Full Review Gigi (1958) 89% “Gigi has more imaginative use of cinema than all our recent pseudo-realist movies put together.” – Village Voice Apr 19, 2022 Full Review The Rising of the Moon (1957) “John Ford has declared this his best film. Though very far from being that, The Rising of the Moon is an important work in Ford’s very uneven career.” – Film Culture Mar 30, 2022 Full Review A Hatful of Rain (1957) “The film is all realism and no poetry, no poetry to lift it above mere surface.” – Film Culture Mar 30, 2022 Full Review Ordet (1955) 100% “Though in no way a modern poet, Dreyer has so succeeded in evoking the past that he has strengthened the faith of present-day rebels, however few of them remain.” – Film Culture Mar 28, 2022 Full Review And Quiet Flows the Don (1957) “Take the melodrama out, and you will have an amazingly fateful collection of vignettes of life in Russia at the beginning of the century.” – Village Voice Jul 27, 2021 Full Review Murder, Inc. (1960) “Finnerty has a complete mastery of himself, and a relaxation which in some ways is to be appreciated more in movies than in the theatre.” – Village Voice Jul 27, 2021 Full Review Wild River (1960) 92% “Wild River, in its preoccupation with the industrial period, in its mixture of patriotism, melodrama, and machines, resembles very closely the so called "tractor films" of Stalin's Russia.” – Village Voice Jul 27, 2021 Full Review The Horse's Mouth (1958) 89% “Being an actor of distinction, Guinness again creates a unique and very personal character -- a caricature of an artist and a genius that is at once comical, pitiable, and tragic.” – Village Voice Jul 27, 2021 Full Review The Jazz Singer (1927) 77% “The first sound film! One wishes that the 100,000th sound, movie ever made 'we are at least somewhere near that figure!) had such an. effective track.” – Village Voice Jul 27, 2021 Full Review Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959) 96% “Resnais' visual sense is matched only by such masters of images as Orson Welles or Von Sternberg.” – Village Voice Jul 27, 2021 Full Review Shadows (1958) 100% “[Shadows is] so far ahead of all Hollywood and independent films that once you've seen [it] you can no longer look at the official cinema: you know that American cinema can be more sensitive and intelligent.” – Village Voice Nov 18, 2017 Full Review A Hard Day's Night (1964) 98% “At best, it is fun. But "fun" is not an aesthetic experience: fun remains on the surface. I have nothing against the surface. But it belongs where it is and shouldn't be taken for anything else.” – Village Voice Jan 18, 2013 Full Review Sun Ra - The Cry of Jazz (1959) 83% “It took new and young and inexperienced (in cinema) people to get us, after two long decades, out of the vapid, commercial, pale, official documentary.” – Village Voice Jan 18, 2013 Full Review The Misfits (1961) 97% “Marilyn Monroe, the Saint of Nevada Desert. When everything has been said about The Misfits, how bad the film is and all that, she still remains there, a new screen character, MM, the saint. And she haunts you, you'll not forget her.” – Village Voice Jan 15, 2013 Full Review A Raisin in the Sun (1961) 90% “A Raisin in the Sun was blown up so high by the critics that it's time to warn everybody: the movie stinks.” – Village Voice Apr 3, 2008 Full Review
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