/// Movies

Alien | In space no one can hear you scream

Titane | Cyberpunk hybrids, homicide and a quest for love

I Am Not Your Negro | Witnessing American History

Selfie | Meaning (and connection) cravings

Tristan Aurouet

Gaslight | When the personal becomes political

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

Another Round | Awakening to Life

Thomas Vinterberg

Last Night in Soho | A glamorous tribute to the swinging 60’s

Soul | Life is not about what you think it is

On Body and Soul | The disability to expose oneself

In the Mouth of Madness | A Storyteller’s Testament

Stand by Me | A cult journey into adulthood

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tick, Tick… Boom! | Tribute to Jonathan Larson and creativity

Lin-Manuel Miranda

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

Céline Sciamma

Manchester by the Sea | An emotional study on grief

Kenneth Lonergan

Dark City Beneath the Beat is Baltimore’s audiovisual symphony

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

Amour | An experience

Ida | A journey to discover one’s own identity

Paweł Pawlikowski

Nomadland | See You Down the Road

Mank | The Impression of a Man’s Life

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

Vesela Kazakova

Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological thriller

Alfred Hitchcock

Locke | The hero’s journey at the wheel

Jojo Rabbit | The best Nazi in the world

Minimalism and poetry in Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad

Momo | The importance of taking time

Betty Blue | A commentary on women depiction in the media

Jean-Jacques Beineix

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

The Man Standing Next | Shakespearean Tragedy in 70s Korea

The Candidate | American politics before the Watergate

Michael Ritchie

Captain Fantastic | Can a family thrive away from society?

Whiplash | Deromanticizing music and success

Damien Chazelle

Arrival | A close encounter of the fifth kind

Denis Villeneuve

If Beale Street Could Talk | A story of ecstatic love

Fantastic Mr. Fox | A story about animals and humans

Chungking Express | A whirling tale of 1990s Hong Kong

The Father | A psychological thriller in disguise

Sound of Metal | A quest for stillness

The Dark Glow of the Mountains | Explore inner landscapes

Boyhood | When cinema captures real life

Richard Linklater

The Law of Desire | Entertainment mixes with auteur cinema

Pedro Almodóvar

Mulholland Drive | All roads lead to Cinema

In the Mood for Love | Loneliness and expectation

Bicycle Thieves | A simple and unforgettable story

Vittorio De Sica

The Dark Knight | An allegory of 9/11 and The War on Terror

Christopher Nolan

The Lighthouse portrays the struggle of humanity

Wag the Dog | When comedy looks like reality

The Trial of the Chicago 7 | A movie about today

Joker | A portrayal of contemporary man

A History of Violence | The past of a shining knight casts shadows

David Cronenberg

13th |A lineage of racial oppression across 150 years

Grand Budapest Hotel | A romantic adventure in a fairy tale world

Sex, Lies, and Videotape | Peeping on a brave new intimacy

Steven Soderbergh

Mommy | An intimate portrait of the mother-son bond

Midsommar | Ari Aster’s horror fairy tale

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a love story

Ana Lily Amirpour

Mustang | A battle for women’s freedom

Deniz Gamze Ergüven

City Lights | The time Charlie Chaplin risked it all

Charlie Chaplin

Gunpowder Heart | Revenge drama in Guatemala City

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

Pan’s Labyrinth | An Antifascist Fantasy

Guillermo Del Toro

Throne of Blood | Translating Shakespeare into Film

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

Karen Bernstein

Bombay Rose has a unique visual animation style

The Thing | To Gaze Long into an Abyss

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

George C. Wolfe

Parasite | Defying definition and labels

Victoria | One city, one night, one take

Sebastian Schipper

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

D.A. Pennebaker

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