/// Movies

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

Christopher Nolan

Bombay Rose has a unique visual animation style

Wag the Dog | When comedy looks like reality

In the Mouth of Madness | A Storyteller’s Testament

The Lighthouse portrays the struggle of humanity

Ida | A journey to discover one’s own identity

Paweł Pawlikowski

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

Céline Sciamma

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Throne of Blood | Translating Shakespeare into Film

A History of Violence | The shadows cast by the past of a shining knight

David Cronenberg

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

D.A. Pennebaker

Arrival | A close encounter of the fifth kind

Denis Villeneuve

Minimalism and poetry in Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad

Dark City Beneath the Beat is Baltimore’s audiovisual symphony

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

Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological thriller

Alfred Hitchcock

Alien | In space no one can hear you scream

Captain Fantastic | Can a family thrive away from society?

13th |A lineage of racial oppression across 150 years

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a love story

Ana Lily Amirpour

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

The Thing | To Gaze Long into an Abyss

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

Vesela Kazakova

The Candidate | American politics before the Watergate

Michael Ritchie

Mank | The Impression of a Man’s Life

Gunpowder Heart | Revenge drama in Guatemala City

Whiplash | Deromanticizing music and success

Damien Chazelle

The Man Standing Next | Shakespearean Tragedy in 70s Korea

The Trial of the Chicago 7 | A movie about today

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

If Beale Street Could Talk | A story of ecstatic love

Sound of Metal | A quest for stillness

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

Karen Bernstein

The Law of Desire | Entertainment mixes with auteur cinema

Pedro Almodóvar

In the Mood for Love | Loneliness and expectation

Parasite | Defying definition and labels

Gaslight | When the personal becomes political

Manchester by the Sea | An emotional study on grief

Kenneth Lonergan

Nomadland | See You Down the Road

Selfie | Meaning (and connection) cravings

Tristan Aurouet

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

George C. Wolfe

Another Round | Awakening to Life

Thomas Vinterberg

I Am Not Your Negro | Witnessing American History

Midsommar | Ari Aster’s horror fairy tale

Amour | An experience

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

Stand by Me | A cult journey into adulthood

Betty Blue | A commentary on women depiction in the media

Jean-Jacques Beineix

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