A transcendent collaboration between revolutionary artists, the film is a stunning meditation on the essence and power of form and burgeoning sentimentalities of a transforming world of cinema.
Michelangelo Antonioni's English language debut Blow-Up is possibly far more a revelation today for its critical and frank depiction of Swinging London than its hypnotic narrative.
Perhaps Akira Kurosawa's greatest film, a non-action, drama, is still brilliantly constructed and deeper than almost all the films dealing with death that Hollywood has spat out.