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Losing faith in the world? Time to watch Imitation of Life

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Douglas Sirk’s 1959 drama is the perfect antidote to the Pandora’s box of intolerance opened by Trump.
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How Network predicted the insidious rise of ‘fake news’

by Edward Cripps

Sidney Lumet’s prophetic 1976 satire warned of the moral erosion of mainstream media 40 years ago.
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Never forget this harrowing oral history of the Holocaust

by David Jenkins

With global nationalism on the rise, now seems like the time to revisit Claude Lanzmann’s masterpiece, Shoah.
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50 years on, Ken Loach’s Cathy Come Home is as powerful as ever

by Stephen Puddicombe

This 1966 TV play on a young woman’s descent into homelessness has lost none of its impact.
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The ecstatic spiritual sweep of Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev

by Orlando Edmonds

Fifty years ago the Russian director launched an epic exploration into the creation of art.
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How American Gigolo flipped Hollywood sexism on its head

by Elena Lazic

Paul Schrader’s 1980 film unashamedly objectifies Richard Gere’s narcissistic lead.
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Boats, hoes and dinosaurs – The childish brilliance of Step Brothers

by Rebecca Speare-Cole

Let us count the ways we love Adam McKay’s 2008 comic masterwork.
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How Romeo + Juliet mastered the Shakespeare adaptation

by Tom Bond

Twenty years ago Baz Luhrmann put a vital contemporary spin on this timeless romantic epic.
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Why Christine contains horror cinema’s greatest femme fatale

by Martyn Conterio

The title character in John Carpenter’s 1983 film is a memorably monstrous movie seductress.
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Why Braindead remains the pinnacle of grisly practical effects

by Stephen Puddicombe

In 1992 a young Peter Jackson created one of horror cinema’s most gruesome and enduring splatterfests.