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The SXSW 2020 Film Collection on Amazon Prime

The Austin-based film festival goes online in quick response to the Covid-19 shutdown.

The Defeat of Darkness

The symbolic meanings of light and dark throughout classical art.

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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom | A Case of the Blues

George C. Wolfe

A sweltering summer day in Chicago, 1927. The “Mother of Blues” Ma Rainey (Viola Davis) and her four-piece band gather at a recording studio. They…

Slanted & Enchanted | Cut up noises over the success

Slanted & Enchanted is the first studio album of the notorious Stockton, California alt-rock band Pavement. The project results from various hours of crazy jamming…

Self-defence | How to translate through gesture

Joanna Piotrowska

Two hands clench a wrist. Forearms intertwine. In this geometry, something like a pact or a vow seems to be stipulated. Yet the image shows…

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The Queen’s Gambit | A western on the chessboard

“Chess is a war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent’s mind.” Bobby Fischer is an American chess Master. Scott Frank (The…

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My Brilliant Friend has a unifying power

I Am Not Your Negro | Witnessing American History

Underworld | A dual conception of history

Post Office is like life itself: a mean, dirty, boring spot

Charles Bukowski

The Master and Margarita| Mikhail Bulgakov’s troubled novel

Mikhail Bulgakov

Olive Kitteridge’s beauty resides in the periphery of things

Elizabeth Strout

Charles IV of Spain and His Family hides a rulers caricature

Westworld | Free will is not free

Roosegaarde’s Smog Free Ring turns pollution into diamonds

Daan Roosegaarde

Contemporary Art

The Tête à Tête time in a Marriage A-la-Mode

William Hogarth

Cathedral tells the big and small relationship struggles

When They See Us | The long way towards equality

The Stefaneschi Triptych gathers two different stories

Giotto di Bondone

The Crossdresser’s Secret and the story of Chevalier d’Eon

Brian O'Doherty

Contemporary Art

The BLM Banksy Painting exposes a white problem

Contemporary Art

The War Room | A testimony of Direct Cinema’s last days

D.A. Pennebaker

Saint Peter and Saint Paul | The new Renaissance standards

Lorenzo di Pietro called Vecchietta

The Rules of the Game | A war movie without a war

Rose Garden shows the symbols of the American rural culture

Contemporary Art

Madonna di Foligno gathers all Raphael’s fundamentals

The Broom of the System is like the pendulum of a clock

David Foster Wallace

Untitled provides for contemplation through everyday objects

Michael E. Smith

Contemporary Art

The Portrait of Madame Isabel Styler-Tas shows Dalì’s method

Gunpowder Heart | Revenge drama in Guatemala City

Mistery and domestic struggles in Desperate Housewives

October Rust | Who knew morbidity could be such fun?

Type O Negative

Dear White People | An exploration of racial identity

The Shock of the Future | It’s the music that matters

High Fidelity | The redemptive power of music and love

The Unbearable Lightness of Being exposes love’s dynamics

Pontormo’s unconventional Deposition From the Cross

Jacopo Pontormo

Jon Rafman’s 9eyes addresses the issue of privacy

Contemporary Art

Big Little Lies | What lies beneath the surface

At Newport 1960 is a blues fresco impossible to resist

The Morning Show | A story about power

Parasite | Defying definition and labels

The Triumph of Death and its strong symbolism

Anonymous (possibly of Catalan or Provencal origins)

Il Sorprendente Album D’Esordio De I Cani

Queen Sugar is a portrayal of oppression

Normal People | Diverting the viewer’s expectations

Tokyo Love Hotel | A razor-sharp anthem for the trap era

Game of Thrones | When the TV goes big

Invisible Cities | A love poem to the city

Balloons on the Sea brings to mind synesthesia

Contemporary Art

Houses at Murnau | Simply and colorful inspirations

Wassily Kandinsky

House of Cards offers a dark portrait of America

The Allegory of Good and Bad Government has a didactic aim

Ambrogio Lorenzetti and his school

There Existed An Addiction To Blood | Between cinema and human nature

Selfie | Meaning (and connection) cravings

Tristan Aurouet

Normal People | Relations rarely concern the two lovers only

The 7 Most Exciting Hours of Mr. Trier’s Life in 24 Chapters

Contemporary Art

Fever to Tell marks the Garage Rock Revival revolution

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Tightrope is a balancing act between art and history

Taus Makhacheva

Contemporary Art

Dangling Man is the portrait of a whole generation

The BLM Banksy Statue honors a time of change

Contemporary Art

The End of the F***ing World | A psychopathic love story

Jonathan Entwistle

J.J. Cale’s Naturally is a classic of the blues-rock genre

Fahrenheit 451 transcends the boundaries of science fiction

The Hours | A novel overcoming time and space

Michael Cunningham

The Underground Railroad tells more than Black history

Colson Whitehead

Breaking Bad | The downward spiral of an ordinary man

Ultra Mono | The Idle’s mix of grit and frailty

Dark City Beneath the Beat is Baltimore’s audiovisual symphony

A Visit From the Goon Squad is a symphony of voices

Polyhymnia | Muses and women celebration

Betty Blue | A commentary on women depiction in the media

Jean-Jacques Beineix

Lost | The first mainstream phenomenon on TV

Chardin’s Soap Bubbles portrays life in pastel tones

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

The Chamber of the Abbess | The impossible art reproduction

Antonio Allegri detto Correggio

Tourist Season offers a space of tenderness

The Topeka School describes a polarized society

The power of language in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Watchmen | A subversion of the superhero

The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories

Ernest Hemingway

Alicja Kwade’s WeltenLinie interacts with the surroundings

Contemporary Art

I Disagree | Poppy’s bizarre musical Frankenstein

The Candidate | American politics before the Watergate

Michael Ritchie

The Law of Desire | Entertainment mixes with auteur cinema

Pedro Almodóvar

Self-defence | How to translate through gesture

Joanna Piotrowska

Contemporary Art

500 Letters questions accessibility within the art world

Contemporary Art

The Road explores climate crisis and alienation

Cormac McCarthy

The Queen’s Gambit | A western on the chessboard

Atom Heart Mother is Pink Floyd’s weirdest experiment

13th |A lineage of racial oppression across 150 years

One Hundred Years of Solitude | History in a family saga

Gabriel García Márquez

Luis Borges’ Fictions is a game of chance

Jorge Luis Borges

Great Expectations | The path to becoming a gentleman

Charles Dickens

Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological thriller

Alfred Hitchcock

The Catcher in the Rye | Finding one’s place in the world

The Chapel of the Holy Shroud is a journey towards the light

Guarino Guarini

Primary – An intimate portrait of J.F.K.

Between the World and Me | Opening a third way to fight

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Gaslight | When the personal becomes political

The Majesty of Simone Martini in Siena

Chernobyl | What history can teach

Fleabag challenges the viewer in many ways

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Beyondless | Deconstructing punk music

The New York Trilogy is a brilliant philosophical adventure

Suspension is an allegory for contemporary society

Sebastian Diaz Morales

Contemporary Art

Cat In The Wall | A critical look at the loss of tolerance

Vesela Kazakova

The Bust of Costanza Bonarelli hides a story of jealousy

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a tonic for low spirits

The spontaneous discipline of Anne Imhof’s Faust

Contemporary Art

Midsommar | Ari Aster’s horror fairy tale

Eggalone.com plays with digital space perception

Rafaël Rozendaal

Contemporary Art

In the Mood for Love | Loneliness and expectation

Tiffany McDaniel’s The summer that melted everything

Tiffany McDaniel

Dark is an exception among TV shows

Dreaming an Endless Space (Between You & I)

How Ride the Lightning helped establish the metal genre

The Handmaid’s Tale | It’s all much more than fiction

The Walking Dead explores human nature

The Downward Spiral tells about the fall of a man

Nine Inch Nails

Love & Ashes | Blood and Sun’s American neofolk

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | Beauty unfold

Lolita | A character taking on a life of its own

Vladimir Nabokov

Portrait of a Lady on Fire | A manifesto about the female gaze

Céline Sciamma

The Raising of Lazarus shows Caravaggio’s innovations

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Selma | Drawing out the essence of Martin Luther King Jr.

Otto Dix’s Metropolis displays social and existential crisis

The Lighthouse portrays the struggle of humanity

The Front Bottom’s Talon of the Hawk

The Front Bottoms

Unorthodox | Finding one own’s voice

Unbelievable | A story of injustice

Minimalism and poetry in Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad

Wag the Dog | When comedy looks like reality

Mad Men | The pursuit of happiness in American society

I’m Gonna Make You Love Me | A search for acceptance

Karen Bernstein

The Lick On The Tip Of An Envelope Yet To Be Sent

Bombay Rose has a unique visual animation style

Coloring Tirana | Art for social change

Contemporary Art

The Office | Pure comedy in the workplace

Manchester by the Sea | An emotional study on grief

Kenneth Lonergan

Killing Eve | Spies and Assassins play their game

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Altri Libertini feels like a punch in the stomach

Pier Vittorio Tondelli

Alien | In space no one can hear you scream

Grey’s Anatomy | A pillar in the modern TV era

Seinfeld | The Sitcom Grandma

Watching Can’t Help Myself is like looking at a caged animal

Contemporary Art

It | Stephen King’s consecration to fame

The City Rises is Umberto Boccioni’s first Futurist work

Umberto Boccioni

Dark humor meets heavy drama in Orange Is the New Black

Lust for Life combines Iggy Pop and David Bowie’s talent

The Pesaro Altarpiece and the painting within a painting

Giovanni Bellini

Euphoria | A visceral portrayal of the teenage experience

Elite | A teen drama dealing with complex themes

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina | The witches of modern times

Roberto Aguirre Sacasa

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom | A Case of the Blues

George C. Wolfe

If Beale Street Could Talk | A story of ecstatic love

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a love story

Ana Lily Amirpour

Joseph the Carpenter shows de la Tour’s mise-en-scene

Georges de La Tour

The Undoing is not only a murder story

Jean Hanff Korelitz

The Trial of the Chicago 7 | A movie about today

Saint Jerome in his study | A new humanist iconography

Antonello da Messina

The Possibility of An Army |The digital space as a battlefield

Constant Dullaart

Contemporary Art

Camere Separate | The search for a balanced existence

Pier Vittorio Tondelli

A Private Affair overlaps a personal and a civil dilemma

Slanted & Enchanted | Cut up noises over the success

Gogol’s Petersburg Tales belong to the collective imagination

Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail to the Dark Lioness

Contemporary Art

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