1K reactions · 121 shares | Kiyoshi Kurosawa on Richard Fleischer’s “Armored Car Robbery” (1950): “Well, first of all, only a very few people know about this [film]. It’s one of my favourite movies. Everything is perfectly made. No matter how many times I watch it, it’s a perfect movie. This is a movie where every single action tells the whole story, and it moves forward at an incredible speed.” (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Letterboxd, 2025) | History of Cinema | Facebook

Martin Scorsese on Giant (1956), directed by George Stevens: "I’ve seen this film over forty times. I don’t like the obvious romanticism, and it’s very studied, but there’s more here than people have seen. It has to do with the depiction of a life style through the passage of so many years. You see people grow. I like James Dean; I like the use of music, even though Dmitri Tiomkin did it…" The full text is available for our subscribers | History of Cinema