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#112: Andrei Rublev

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910xriumnjrwh2hkqifbjtopp5r#112 – Andrei Rublev, (Андрей Рублёв), 1966, Andrei Tarkovsky
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An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again.

#159: The Battle of Algiers

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6kv3n1cgieaeyf4wepeck1oeh7n#159 – The Battle of Algiers, (La battaglia di Algeri), 1966, Gillo Pontecorvo
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Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in 1957. The film traces the rebels’ struggle and the increasingly extreme measures taken by the French government to quell the revolt.

#196: Au Hasard Balthazar

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wgplttohjxlnbarj3x4zcwf64c5#196 – Au Hasard Balthazar, 1966, Robert Bresson
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A profound masterpiece from one of the most revered filmmakers in the history of cinema, Robert Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly. Through Bresson’s unconventional approach to composition, sound, and narrative, this simple story becomes a moving parable about purity and transcendence.

#415: Blow-Up

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6btmsk8nrosamcq6miv4xp8ix5t#415 – Blow-Up, 1966, Michelangelo Antonioni
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A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he accidentally captures on film the commission of a murder. The fact that he has photographed a murder does not occur to him until he studies and then blows up his negatives, uncovering details, blowing up smaller and smaller elements, and finally putting the puzzle together.

#567: Daisies

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4nof3uywdbwz0wrjxekygyblhct#567 – Daisies, (Sedmikrásky), 1966, Věra Chytilová
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Two teenage girls, both named Marie, decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them. This freewheeling, madcap feminist farce was immediately banned by the government.

#891: Red Angel

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ci0wibcfoirtn3q1alk8kuw52n2#891 – Red Angel, (赤い天使), 1966, Yasuzô Masumura
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In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon Dr. Okabe with an incredible number of amputations. In the crowded wards, she gives sympathy to some of the soldiers, including sexually servicing one who has lost both arms and has no hope of returning home. She falls in love with Dr. Okabe, and follows him to the front, even though he is impotent from his morphine addiction