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Fifty-Two Lives: Dai Jinhua's Masterclass in Cinema
Flowers beneath leaves, footsteps through snow in dreams
Completed · 106 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
01. Introduction: Ready? Enter the Moment of Cinema 02. Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America I: Two Sides of the American Dream 03. Once Upon a Time in America II: The Overlooked Truth Hidden in the Frame 04. Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine I: History as Scenery 05. Farewell My Concubine II: An Emotional Mystery Sunk Deep in the Mud 06. Miloš Forman's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest I: A Subversive Social Allegory 07. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest II: Truth beneath Lies and Lies beneath Truth 08. Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love I: Love's Absence 09. In the Mood for Love II: One Person's War 10. The Wachowskis' The Matrix I: Immortal Love Defeats Death 11. The Matrix II: Bullet Time 12. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others I: Other People's Lives 13. The Lives of Others II: Betraying Betrayal 14. Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel I: Cinema's Own Funeral Rite 15. The Grand Budapest Hotel II: Self-Reference and Tribute to Film 16. Rajkumar Hirani's 3 Idiots I: An Alternative Bollywood Dream Factory 17. 3 Idiots II: Possibilities beyond Hollywood 18. Frank Darabont's The Shawshank Redemption I: Hope Creates Reality 19. The Shawshank Redemption II: The Answer to Hollywood Cinema 20. Spielberg's Schindler's List I: Reconciling with Twentieth-Century History 21. Schindler's List II: Whoever Saves One Life Saves the World 22. Orson Welles's Citizen Kane I: Advancing into the Mystery of the Human Mind 23. Citizen Kane II: Low Angles and Deep Focus 24. Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion I: Cinema as Audiovisual Space-Time 25. Grand Illusion II: Elegy for an Age 26. Robert Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest I: Physiognomy of Existence 27. Diary of a Country Priest II: “All Is Grace” 28. Rossellini's Rome, Open City I: The Camera Breaks through the Wall Again 29. Rome, Open City II: Local Color and Popular Resistance 30. De Sica's Bicycle Thieves I: A Masterpiece of Neorealism 31. Bicycle Thieves II: Father and Son before the Camera 32. Giuseppe De Santis's Rome 11:00 I: Black Comedy's Ferocity and Absurdity 33. Rome 11:00 II: The Power of the Long Take 34. Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers I: Modernization's Breakdown and Collapse 35. Rocco and His Brothers II: Social Tragedy on the Spiritual Plane 36. Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali I: Rural Bengal's Natural Landscape 37. Pather Panchali II: Fleeting Emotion as a Luxury 38. Godard's Breathless I: A Generation-Defining Master's Rebellion without Cause 39. Breathless II: Choosing between Sorrow and Nothingness 40. Truffaut's The 400 Blows I: A Landmark of Auteur Theory 41. The 400 Blows II: Idealism Faces the World's Hypocrisy and Pallor 42. Jacques Becker's Le Trou I: A Cinematic Testament at an Era's Turn 43. Le Trou II: Prison-Break Spectacle and a Test of Humanity 44. Tarkovsky's Solaris I: Where Human Knowledge Cannot Reach 45. Solaris II: Ghosts, Fantasy, and the Most Absurd Dream Come True 46. Kiarostami's Where Is the Friend's House? I: Bitter Tenderness 47. Where Is the Friend's House? II: A Warm Poem of Rural Iran 48. Kurosawa's Rashomon I: The Enigma of Human Nature 49. Rashomon II: Cinematic Art or National Allegory? 50. Fellini's La Strada I: The Moment the Road Narrows 51. La Strada II: Double Variations on an Ancient Tune 52. Bergman's The Seventh Seal I: Faith Reconciles with Nothingness 53. The Seventh Seal II: A Heavy Question Pursued for a Century 54. Hitchcock's Psycho I: Oedipal Psychological Crime 55. Psycho II: Three Suspense Spaces of Psychological Crime 56. Ozu's An Autumn Afternoon I: Low Angles and Eastern Stability 57. An Autumn Afternoon II: Life's Irresistible Fateful Turn 58. Héctor Babenco's Kiss of the Spider Woman I: A Night of Revolution and Romance 59. Kiss of the Spider Woman II: A Human Mystery through Multiple Reversals 60. Coppola's The Godfather I: An Allegory of America 61. The Godfather II: Epic Gangster Cinema 62. Fassbinder's World on a Wire I: Artistic Expression in Genre Film 63. World on a Wire II: The Eternal Puzzle of Freedom and Imprisonment 64. Scorsese's Taxi Driver I: Breaking the Fence around the Hollywood Dream 65. Taxi Driver II: Rebellion with a Cause 66. Kubrick's The Shining I: Unrestrained Writing by a Genius 67. The Shining II: A Horror Announced in Advance 68. Angelopoulos's Landscape in the Mist I: A Desolate Dream Journey 69. Landscape in the Mist II: A Warm Ending and Cruel Poetry 70. Kieślowski's Blue I: Freedom Premised on Loss 71. Blue II: Humanity's Eternal Dilemma 72. David Lynch's Mulholland Drive I: Hollywood Reflects on Itself 73. Mulholland Drive II: The Vortex of Dreams 74. Hou Hsiao-hsien's The Assassin I: A Person without Her Kind 75. The Assassin II: Nie Yinniang Absent 76. Kalatozov's The Cranes Are Flying I: Love as War Spreads 77. The Cranes Are Flying II: Cruel Lines of Poetry in War 78. Antonioni's Red Desert I: A Critic of Modern Civilization 79. Red Desert II: Inner Poetry in the Long Take 80. Kozintsev's Hamlet I: A Mooring Point for Twentieth-Century Western Civilization 81. Hamlet II: The Hero Reappears 82. Chabrol's La Cérémonie I: Double Identification in Crime Cinema 83. La Cérémonie II: A Psychological Portrait of Particular Criminals 84. Sydney Pollack's The Way We Were I: Love across Class 85. The Way We Were II: The American Spirit on Another Plane 86. Schlöndorff's The Tin Drum I: A Dark Fairy Tale for Adults 87. The Tin Drum II: Family History beneath the Skirt 88. Wim Wenders's Wings of Desire I: A Film Poem 89. Wings of Desire II: An Angel Falls to Earth 90. Peter Weir's Dead Poets Society I: An Unconventional Enlightener 91. Dead Poets Society II: Humanism Recovered and Lost 92. Rivette's La Belle Noiseuse I: A War of the Sexes 93. La Belle Noiseuse II: Youth's Arrogance before Age 94. Edward Yang's A Brighter Summer Day I: A Cruel Story of Youth 95. A Brighter Summer Day II: Cinema Like a Novel 96. Jiang Wen's In the Heat of the Sun I: Childhood Develops Memories of the Cultural Revolution 97. In the Heat of the Sun II: A Youth Story Told through Light 98. Manchevski's Before the Rain I: Time's Visual Illusion 99. Before the Rain II: A Three-Part Narrative Cycle 100. Michael Radford's The Postman I: When a Star Meets an Ordinary Man 101. The Postman II: A Courtship Announced in Advance 102. Tornatore's The Legend of 1900 I: Looking Back on a Century 103. The Legend of 1900 II: A Romantic Life Legend 104. Makhmalbaf's Kandahar I: “I Make Films to Breathe” 105. Kandahar II: Cinematic Spectacle in Documentary Style