The French Connection - 1971
William Friedkin
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"the film’s grimy realism (and downbeat ending) was a big
change from the buff-and-shine gloss and good-guys-
always-win heroics of most police dramas..."

Kes - 1969
Ken Loach
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"Loach transformed Barry Hines's gritty novel A Kestrel for
a Knave"

Blow Up - 1966
Michelangelo Antonioni
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"a puzzling, existential, adroitly-assembled masterpiece."

Cheloveks Kino Apparatom - 1929
Dziga Vertov & Mikhail Kaufman
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"A celebration of the modern city with a marked emphasis on its
buildings and machinery."

Taiheiyo hitori-botchi - 1963
Kon Ichikawa
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"As he battles with the elements and the perils of the deep, so he
also wrestles with forces that dwell deep within himself."