Robert Harbison

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  Top 50 films for architects: The Passion of Joan of Arc

  2014-02-17T08:32:00

  This silent classic may be an ordeal to watch, but it is beautiful in its obsessive concentration

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  Top 50 films for architects: Brazil

  2013-09-23T06:30:00

  This exuberant dystopian fantasy is a tale of universal submissiveness

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  Top 50 films for architects: Still Life (aka Good People of the Three Gorges)

  2013-07-17T06:20:00

  A risk-taking exploration of a labyrinth of demolitions and life at close quarters

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  Top 50 films for architects: Andrei Rublev

  2013-07-16T06:10:00

  A soulful portrayal of an actual historical figure

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  Top 50 films for architects: Madame de...

  2013-04-24T06:00:00

  A baroque tale of intrigue, jewellery and dilemma

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  Top 50 films for architects: My Childhood My Ain Folk My Way Home

  2013-04-15T06:30:00

  An uncompromising trilogy about childhood laid bare

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  Top 50 films for architects: The Mill and the Cross

  2013-03-25T06:15:00

  A lesson in turning two dimensions into three

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  Top 50 films for architects: Faust

  2013-02-12T06:40:00

  Murnau’s film leaves neither time nor space for things to unfold slowly

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  Top 50 films for architects: Cry of the City

  2013-01-29T06:25:00

  This film noir is like a mathematical equation

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  Top 50 films for architects: Spirited Away

  2013-01-17T06:42:00

  It’s easy to forget that this fantastical Japanese film is a cartoon

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  Top 50 films for architects: Apocalypse Now

  2012-11-30T05:41:00

  Francis Ford Coppola’s interpretation of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is a journey into the unknown

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  Top 50 films for architects: The Iron Gate (Cairo Station)

  2012-11-14T06:35:00

  Chahine’s film evokes the hollow feeling of being left behind

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  Top 50 films for architects: Nil by Mouth

  2012-10-26T10:18:00

  The constant fear of violence is more wearing in Oldman’s film than the thing itself

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  Top 50 films for architects: Late Spring

  2012-10-18T06:35:00

  Ozu’s film explores elements of human communication where words are secondary to space

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  Top 50 films for architects: Once upon a time in the West

  2012-09-27T17:56:00

  Music dictates the action in this metaphysical or post-modern western

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  Top 50 films for architects: Once upon a time in the West

  2012-09-27T06:35:00

  Music dictates the action in this metaphysical or post-modern western

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  Top 50 films for architects: The Saragossa Manuscript

  2012-08-21T06:40:00

  Outrageously elaborate sets and shifting tales make this highly fanciful account of the Napoleonic period a hallucinatory experience

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  Top 50 Films for Architects: Man with a Movie Camera

  2012-07-12T07:05:00

  Man with a Movie Camera brims over with fleeting impressions and closely observed human figures

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  Top 50 Films for Architects: Pixote

  2012-07-05T07:00:00

  Pixote is a gruelling story of human waste but finds there is unexpected visual beauty in deprivation

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  Top 50 Films for Architects: Pixote

  2012-07-04T17:35:00

  Pixote is a gruelling story of human waste but found in there is unexpected visual beauty in deprivation

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