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We break down essential movies worth watching on the streaming service.
But it’s great at providing context and bonus features for their content, too.
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Organizing the channel around themes that range from German Expressionism to Columbia Noir, the service is highly curated.
With that in mind, weve devised a crash course film school for your quarantine viewing.
Here are just three.
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Using light and shadow to reflect new levels of psychological interiority, it fundamentally altered modes of cinematic expression.
And the famous Odessa Steps sequence has been referenced in everything fromThe UntouchablestoThe GodfathertoStar Wars.
Metropolis (1927)
ThisFritz Langmasterpiece is considered one of the most influential silent films ever made.
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Its a wrong-man thriller that presages Hitchcocks most famous works, most notablyNorth by Northwest.
Classic Hollywood
They dont call it the Golden Age for nothing.
Some Like It Hot(1959)
Its impossible to make this list without aBilly Wilderentry.
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It upended film language and made Japanese cinema a force to be reckoned with on the world stage.
It imbued the female experience with the artful, verite style of filmmaking signature to the New Wave.
Its crisscrossing between the lifelike and the dreamlike pushed the envelope for what was possible on screen.
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Whats Up, Doc?
With its black-and-white cinematography and deft storytelling, it used the old Hollywood playbook to create something utterly new.
This poetic film follows a family of black women in the Gullah community off the coast of South Carolina.
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