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Texas: The Great Theft

Carmen Boullosa and Samantha Schnee (trans.)

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An imaginative writer in the tradition of Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges, and Cesar Aira, Carmen...

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

John Le Carre

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It is 1962: the height of the Cold War and only months after the building of the Berlin Wall. Alec...

Uprising

Sarah Cawkwell

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Mathias Eynon's dreams were small. A dabbler in magic, he expected to live in obscurity in his home...

Death Zones

Simon Pasternak and Martin Aitken

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In the lawless killing fields of the Eastern Front, SS Oberleutnant Hoffmann is on a mission to find...

Half Blood Blues

Esi Edugyan

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Chip told us not to go out. Said, don't you boys tempt the devil. But it been one brawl of a night,...

Of Walking in Ice: Munich - Paris: 23 November - 14 December, 1974

Werner Herzog

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This is a poetic meditation on life and death, by one of the most renowned and respected film-makers...

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The Third Man (1949)

1949 | Thriller

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"Maybe the best film ever made in Europe about modern Europe, by my favorite of all European directors, Carol Reed. It’s a companion piece to its follow-up, The Man Between, my other favorite Reed film; both films present a totally pessimistic take on the moral collapse of a divided postwar Europe, with no heroes or possible redemption. I’ve probably seen it fifty or sixty times since it first appeared on TV in the 1950s, and still watch it from beginning to end whenever I get the chance. With the exception of the miscast Orson Welles (how could Alida Valli ever have loved such a mean-spirited, charmless, smirking killer?), the players, led by Joseph Cotten, Valli, and Trevor Howard, are at their best, as are the finest collection of German-Austrian actors ever assembled. It contains one of the greatest musical scores and has easily the greatest ending to any film ever made."

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