A Man Escaped [1956]
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Jackie and Greg get locked up with Robert Bresson's minimalist prison-escape classic, A MAN ESCAPED from 1956. Topics of discussion include Bresson's cinema of hands, how it compares to other jailbreak films, where it falls within his filmography, and why it's a magical pairing of filmmaker and subject matter.
#69 on Sight & Sound's 2012 "The 100 Greatest Films of All Time" list.
https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/greatest-films-all-time-2012
#95 on Sight & Sound's 2022 "The 100 Greatest Films of All Time" list. https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time
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