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Items we call dirty, try to throw both beauty and perfection out of the window: they call to the rough, gritty, often dark sides of humanity.

Dangling Man is the portrait of a whole generation

Altri Libertini feels like a punch in the stomach

Pier Vittorio Tondelli

Fleabag challenges the viewer in many ways

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Dark humor meets heavy drama in Orange Is the New Black

The Undoing is not only a murder story

Jean Hanff Korelitz

The City Rises is Umberto Boccioni’s first Futurist work

Umberto Boccioni

The 7 Most Exciting Hours of Mr. Trier’s Life in 24 Chapters

Contemporary Art

Big Little Lies | What lies beneath the surface

Gunpowder Heart | Revenge drama in Guatemala City

The Possibility of An Army |The digital space as a battlefield

Constant Dullaart

Contemporary Art

The Portrait of Madame Isabel Styler-Tas shows Dalì’s method

The Lighthouse portrays the struggle of humanity

Rose Garden shows the symbols of the American rural culture

Contemporary Art

House of Cards offers a dark portrait of America

Roosegaarde’s Smog Free Ring turns pollution into diamonds

Daan Roosegaarde

Contemporary Art

When They See Us | The long way towards equality

The Master and Margarita| Mikhail Bulgakov’s troubled novel

Mikhail Bulgakov

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a tonic for low spirits

Watching Can’t Help Myself is like looking at a caged animal

Contemporary Art

Killing Eve | Spies and Assassins play their game

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Charles IV of Spain and His Family hides a rulers caricature

Westworld | Free will is not free

Il Sorprendente Album D’Esordio De I Cani

Breaking Bad | The downward spiral of an ordinary man

Elite | A teen drama dealing with complex themes

Ride the Lightning

Talon of the Hawk

The Front Bottoms

Wag the Dog | When comedy looks like reality

Fahrenheit 451 transcends the boundaries of science fiction

The Law of Desire | Entertainment mixes with auteur cinema

Pedro Almodóvar

Game of Thrones | When the TV goes big

Midsommar | Ari Aster’s horror fairy tale

The power of language in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Cathedral tells the big and small relationship struggles

Seinfeld | The Sitcom Grandma

Lost | The first mainstream phenomenon on TV

The Handmaid’s Tale | It’s all much more than fiction

The Underground Railroad tells more than Black history

Colson Whitehead

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

Slanted & Enchanted | Cut up noises over the success

Otto Dix’s Metropolis displays social and existential crisis

Olive Kitteridge’s beauty resides in the periphery of things

Elizabeth Strout

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

I Am Not Your Negro | Witnessing American History

Post Office is like life itself: a mean, dirty, boring spot

Charles Bukowski

My Brilliant Friend has a unifying power

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

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

Vesela Kazakova

It | Stephen King’s consecration to fame

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

D.A. Pennebaker

The End of the F***ing World | A psychopathic love story

Jonathan Entwistle

October Rust | Who knew morbidity could be such fun?

Type O Negative

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina | The witches of modern times

Roberto Aguirre Sacasa

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

Gogol’s Petersburg Tales belong to the collective imagination

Watchmen | A subversion of the superhero

The Tête à Tête time in a Marriage A-la-Mode

William Hogarth

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a love story

Ana Lily Amirpour

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

The spontaneous discipline of Anne Imhof’s Faust

Contemporary Art

The Walking Dead explores human nature

The Allegory of Good and Bad Government has a didactic aim

Ambrogio Lorenzetti and his school

Euphoria | A visceral portrayal of the teenage experience

The Candidate | American politics before the Watergate

Michael Ritchie

Tokyo Love Hotel | A razor-sharp anthem for the trap era

The Catcher in the Rye | Finding one’s place in the world

Dark is an exception among TV shows

The Office | Pure comedy in the workplace

There Existed An Addiction To Blood

Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail to the Dark Lioness

Contemporary Art

The Triumph of Death and its strong symbolism

Anonymous (possibly of Catalan or Provencal origins)

Coloring Tirana | Art for social change

Contemporary Art

A Visit From the Goon Squad is a symphony of voices

Jon Rafman’s 9eyes addresses the issue of privacy

Contemporary Art

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

Karen Bernstein

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