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Title: A Few Good Individual Scenes, but Overall, a Dud.
Review: I had heard about how great this film was and that it was number 1 on the AFI's greatest films list, so I finally rented this film from a library. What a letdown. There were a few good individual scenes and shots, but as a whole, the film wasn't that great. The cinematography wasn't very good either. If you want to see a good example of black and white cinematography, buy or rent Satyajit Ray's "Pather Panchali", "Jalsaghar", or "Charulata". Also, Vittorio de Sica's "Bicycle Thief" and any Akira Kurosawa film. I am a fan of the classics, but CK didn't appeal to me at all. There has been much, much better black and white photography, not to mention more entertaining.
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