All articles by Robert Harbison
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ReviewTop 50 films for architects: The Passion of Joan of Arc
This silent classic may be an ordeal to watch, but it is beautiful in its obsessive concentration
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ReviewTop 50 films for architects: Brazil
This exuberant dystopian fantasy is a tale of universal submissiveness
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ReviewTop 50 films for architects: Still Life (aka Good People of the Three Gorges)
A risk-taking exploration of a labyrinth of demolitions and life at close quarters
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ReviewTop 50 films for architects: Andrei Rublev
A soulful portrayal of an actual historical figure
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ReviewTop 50 films for architects: My Childhood My Ain Folk My Way Home
An uncompromising trilogy about childhood laid bare
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ReviewTop 50 films for architects: The Mill and the Cross
A lesson in turning two dimensions into three
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ReviewTop 50 films for architects: Faust
Murnau’s film leaves neither time nor space for things to unfold slowly
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ReviewTop 50 films for architects: Spirited Away
It’s easy to forget that this fantastical Japanese film is a cartoon
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ReviewTop 50 films for architects: Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola’s interpretation of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is a journey into the unknown
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ReviewTop 50 films for architects: The Iron Gate (Cairo Station)
Chahine’s film evokes the hollow feeling of being left behind
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ReviewTop 50 films for architects: Nil by Mouth
The constant fear of violence is more wearing in Oldman’s film than the thing itself
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ReviewTop 50 films for architects: Late Spring
Ozu’s film explores elements of human communication where words are secondary to space
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Tablet onlyTop 50 films for architects: Once upon a time in the West
Music dictates the action in this metaphysical or post-modern western
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ReviewTop 50 films for architects: Once upon a time in the West
Music dictates the action in this metaphysical or post-modern western
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ReviewTop 50 films for architects: The Saragossa Manuscript
Outrageously elaborate sets and shifting tales make this highly fanciful account of the Napoleonic period a hallucinatory experience
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ReviewTop 50 Films for Architects: Man with a Movie Camera
Man with a Movie Camera brims over with fleeting impressions and closely observed human figures
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ReviewTop 50 Films for Architects: Pixote
Pixote is a gruelling story of human waste but finds there is unexpected visual beauty in deprivation
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Tablet onlyTop 50 Films for Architects: Pixote
Pixote is a gruelling story of human waste but found in there is unexpected visual beauty in deprivation