Films byTexts by 1948
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Bicycle Thieves
Vittorio De Sica, 1948, 92’

In post-war Italy, a working-class man’s bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.

 

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Alain Resnais, 1948, 20’

The biography of Dutch artist Van Gogh, illustrated only with images of his paintings and drawings, or details of those, and according dramatic musical score.

 

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Howard Hawks, 1948, 133’

“There is a constant illusion that you are watching an extraordinary effort to get cattle across a certain immense expanse of difficult and threatening country, that you are learning a lot about how such a job feels and gets done, and that the perpetually wrangling players are important not so mu

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13.12.2017

Men zou alleen naar de mensen kunnen kijken, oneindig lang, om zijn omgang met hen te begrijpen en om te beseffen dat morele helderheid en oprechtheid onontbeerlijk zijn voor dit soort werk, en om met meer minachting dan ooit tevoren te beseffen hoe in onze tijd consequent zogenaamd eenvoudige mensen, fictief en niet-fictief, bewust en onbewust beledigd en verraden worden door kunstenaars en toeschouwers: het lijkt alsof werkelijk niemand nog in staat is een ander recht in de ogen te kijken. Maar deze man wel; en dit is het prachtigste en sterkste document van werkelijke mensen dat ik ooit heb gezien.

Article NL EN
13.12.2017

Whether or not this film is fully as great as it might have been, it is one of the finer works in the whole great line of rural art which extends backward through Van Gogh and Brueghel to the Georgics and to the Works and Days. It combines the cold deep-country harshness of Hesiod with a Vergilian tenderness and majesty; and its achievement is wholly of our time, through that reverence for unaltered reality which can be translated into a work of art only through the camera.

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Germany Year Zero
Roberto Rossellini, 1948, 78’

“Rossellini is de enige filmer van het Italiaanse neorealisme die zich werkelijk van dit gevaar bewust is. Hij weet dat de ‘onschuldige’ blik op de werkelijkheid een mythe is, die steeds manipulatie en mystificatie moet verbergen.

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Paul Haesaerts, Henri Storck, 1948, 63’

“With Rubens, Storck clearly demonstrated that the medium of film was suitable for formal analyses of artworks. Moreover, with his large formats and compositions characterised by movements and spatial depth, Rubens is almost presented as a precursor of cinema.

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Max Ophüls, 1948, 86’

“Have you ever shuffled faces like cards, hoping to find one that lies somewhere, just over the edge of your memory? The one you’ve been waiting for? Well tonight when I first saw you, and then later when I watched you in the dark, it was as though I’d found that one face among all the others.