/// Movies

Wag the Dog | When comedy looks like reality

Amour | An experience

Locke | The hero’s journey at the wheel

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

Karen Bernstein

13th |A lineage of racial oppression across 150 years

Pan’s Labyrinth | An Antifascist Fantasy

Guillermo Del Toro

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a love story

Ana Lily Amirpour

Jojo Rabbit | The best Nazi in the world

Gaslight | When the personal becomes political

Alien | In space no one can hear you scream

In the Mouth of Madness | A Storyteller’s Testament

The Thing | To Gaze Long into an Abyss

Gunpowder Heart | Revenge drama in Guatemala City

Captain Fantastic | Can a family thrive away from society?

Betty Blue | A commentary on women depiction in the media

Jean-Jacques Beineix

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

D.A. Pennebaker

The Law of Desire | Entertainment mixes with auteur cinema

Pedro Almodóvar

Bombay Rose has a unique visual animation style

Minimalism and poetry in Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad

I Am Not Your Negro | Witnessing American History

The Trial of the Chicago 7 | A movie about today

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Another Round | Awakening to Life

Thomas Vinterberg

Arrival | A close encounter of the fifth kind

Denis Villeneuve

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

Christopher Nolan

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

Vesela Kazakova

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

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

Céline Sciamma

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

Stand by Me | A cult journey into adulthood

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

George C. Wolfe

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

Joker | A portrayal of contemporary man

Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological thriller

Alfred Hitchcock

Ida | A journey to discover one’s own identity

Paweł Pawlikowski

Throne of Blood | Translating Shakespeare into Film

In the Mood for Love | Loneliness and expectation

The Candidate | American politics before the Watergate

Michael Ritchie

Dark City Beneath the Beat is Baltimore’s audiovisual symphony

Midsommar | Ari Aster’s horror fairy tale

Whiplash | Deromanticizing music and success

Damien Chazelle

Mank | The Impression of a Man’s Life

Selfie | Meaning (and connection) cravings

Tristan Aurouet

Sound of Metal | A quest for stillness

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

David Cronenberg

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

If Beale Street Could Talk | A story of ecstatic love

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

Parasite | Defying definition and labels

Nomadland | See You Down the Road

The Lighthouse portrays the struggle of humanity

Manchester by the Sea | An emotional study on grief

Kenneth Lonergan

The Man Standing Next | Shakespearean Tragedy in 70s Korea

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