/// Movies

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

David Cronenberg

Manchester by the Sea | An emotional study on grief

Kenneth Lonergan

Nomadland | See You Down the Road

I Am Not Your Negro | Witnessing American History

Wild at Heart | Make love against the world

Encanto | Breaking the Circle of Trauma

Amour | An experience

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | A Rare Movie Combining Different Realities

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

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

Karen Bernstein

Dark City Beneath the Beat is Baltimore’s audiovisual symphony

On Body and Soul | The disability to expose oneself

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

Christopher Nolan

Captain Fantastic | Can a family thrive away from society?

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Getting Lost in the Labyrinthine World of Mind and Feelings

Thelma & Louise | Revolutionary women on screen

Bombay Rose has a unique visual animation style

West Side Story | Rewriting a cult classic

Steven Spielberg

Momo | The importance of taking time

The Father | A psychological thriller in disguise

The Power of the Dog | Human Depths Barking

The Trial of the Chicago 7 | A movie about today

Gunpowder Heart | Revenge drama in Guatemala City

Throne of Blood | Translating Shakespeare into Film

In the Mood for Love | Loneliness and expectation

Titane | Cyberpunk hybrids, homicide and a quest for love

Million Dollar Baby | A Path of Suffering and Liberation

If Beale Street Could Talk | A story of ecstatic love

Joker | A portrayal of contemporary man

Avatar | The Persuasion of an Alien Way of Life

Force Majeure | The shame of surviving unfulfilled expectations

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

Mustang | A battle for women’s freedom

Deniz Gamze Ergüven

Spirited Away | An otherworldly journey for growing up

13th |A lineage of racial oppression across 150 years

Dune | A Sci-Fi movie both grounded and reaching for the Stars

Denis Villeneuve

Victoria | One city, one night, one take

Sebastian Schipper

Being the Ricardos | Behind the Scenes of Show Business

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

Sound of Metal | A quest for stillness

Boyhood | When cinema captures real life

Richard Linklater

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

Passing | On Racial Passing and Racial Identity

The Green Knight | An Epic Tale of Humans and Nature

Mommy | An intimate portrait of the mother-son bond

Soul | Life is not about what you think it is

L’Événement | Women’s Right to Choose

Gaslight | When the personal becomes political

Bicycle Thieves | A simple and unforgettable story

Vittorio De Sica

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a love story

Ana Lily Amirpour

Whiplash | Deromanticizing music and success

Damien Chazelle

The Man Standing Next | Shakespearean Tragedy in 70s Korea

Taxi Driver | The Dark Night of the Psyche

Martin Scorsese

Arrival | A close encounter of the fifth kind

Denis Villeneuve

Stand by Me | A cult journey into adulthood

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

George C. Wolfe

Midsommar | Ari Aster’s horror fairy tale

In the Mouth of Madness | A Storyteller’s Testament

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

Lin-Manuel Miranda

The Candidate | American politics before the Watergate

Michael Ritchie

The Law of Desire | Entertainment mixes with auteur cinema

Pedro Almodóvar

Minimalism and poetry in Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad

The Dark Glow of the Mountains | Explore inner landscapes

Un Año, Una Noche | Living again, not surviving

Betty Blue | A commentary on women depiction in the media

Jean-Jacques Beineix

The Last Duel | The Idea of Justice for Medieval Women

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

Vesela Kazakova

Locke | The hero’s journey at the wheel

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

Céline Sciamma

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

Wag the Dog | When comedy looks like reality

The Thing | To Gaze Long into an Abyss

Selfie | Meaning (and connection) cravings

Tristan Aurouet

Fantastic Mr. Fox | A story about animals and humans

City Lights | The time Charlie Chaplin risked it all

Charlie Chaplin

Mulholland Drive | All roads lead to Cinema

Blade Runner 2049 | On how to be human

Denis Villeneuve

Mank | The Impression of a Man’s Life

Another Round | Awakening to Life

Thomas Vinterberg

Chungking Express | A whirling tale of 1990s Hong Kong

Alcarràs | A Tribute to Resistant Farmers’ Families

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

D.A. Pennebaker

The Lighthouse portrays the struggle of humanity

Pan’s Labyrinth | An Antifascist Fantasy

Guillermo Del Toro

Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological thriller

Alfred Hitchcock

Alien | In space no one can hear you scream

Parasite | Defying definition and labels

Jojo Rabbit | The best Nazi in the world

Ida | A journey to discover one’s own identity

Paweł Pawlikowski

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

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

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

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

Steven Soderbergh

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