Our Take

Greed (1924) - Erich von Stroheim was an obsessive genius who dragged his cast into the blistering, 120-degree hell of Death Valley just to capture the true smell of human rot. This is a brutal, agonizing autopsy of the American dream, where gold turns men into animals and the desert swallows the rest. It’s a film that survived being butchered by studio hacks and still feels like a heavy, golden brick to the skull. If you think cinema is about happy endings, this film will set your soul on fire.