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/// Movies
Primary – An intimate portrait of J.F.K.
Robert Drew
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Manchester by the Sea | An emotional study on grief
Kenneth Lonergan
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Gaslight | When the personal becomes political
George Cukor
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The Lighthouse portrays the struggle of humanity
Robert Eggers
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I Am Not Your Negro | Witnessing American History
Raoul Peck
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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Alien | In space no one can hear you scream
Ridley Scott
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The Candidate | American politics before the Watergate
Michael Ritchie
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Amour | An experience
Michael Haneke
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The War Room | A testimony of Direct Cinema’s last days
D.A. Pennebaker
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Betty Blue | A commentary on women depiction in the media
Jean-Jacques Beineix
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Bombay Rose has a unique visual animation style
Gitanjali Rao
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Selfie | Meaning (and connection) cravings
Tristan Aurouet
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In the Mood for Love | Loneliness and expectation
Wong Kar-wai
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The Dark Knight | An allegory of 9/11 and The War on Terror
Christopher Nolan
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Mank | The Impression of a Man’s Life
David Fincher
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Cat In The Wall | A critical look at the loss of tolerance
Vesela Kazakova
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Whiplash | Deromanticizing music and success
Damien Chazelle
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Minimalism and poetry in Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad
Kon Ichikawa
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Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological thriller
Alfred Hitchcock
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13th |A lineage of racial oppression across 150 years
Ava DuVernay
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire | A manifesto about the female gaze
Céline Sciamma
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Dark City Beneath the Beat is Baltimore’s audiovisual symphony
TT the Artist
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Wag the Dog | When comedy looks like reality
Barry Levinson
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The Shock of the Future | It’s the music that matters
Marc Collin
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The Rules of the Game | A war movie without a war
Jean Renoir
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The Trial of the Chicago 7 | A movie about today
Aaron Sorkin
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Selma | Drawing out the essence of Martin Luther King Jr.
Ava DuVernay
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Parasite | Defying definition and labels
Bong Joon Ho
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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom | A Case of the Blues
George C. Wolfe
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If Beale Street Could Talk | A story of ecstatic love
Barry Jenkins
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Throne of Blood | Translating Shakespeare into Film
Akira Kurosawa
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The Law of Desire | Entertainment mixes with auteur cinema
Pedro Almodóvar
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Gunpowder Heart | Revenge drama in Guatemala City
Camila Urrutia
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Midsommar | Ari Aster’s horror fairy tale
Ari Aster
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Ida | A journey to discover one’s own identity
Paweł Pawlikowski
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In the Mouth of Madness | A Storyteller’s Testament
John Carpenter
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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a love story
Ana Lily Amirpour
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I’m Gonna Make You Love Me | A search for acceptance
Karen Bernstein
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