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The Downward Spiral tells about the fall of a man

Nine Inch Nails

Underworld | A dual conception of history

West of Eden | Threnos for the western world’s end

A Visit From the Goon Squad is a symphony of voices

The Topeka School describes a polarized society

The Majesty of Simone Martini in Siena

Untitled provides for contemplation through everyday objects

Michael E. Smith

Contemporary Art

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a love story

Ana Lily Amirpour

Joseph the Carpenter shows de la Tour’s mise-en-scene

Georges de La Tour

Houses at Murnau | Simply and colorful inspirations

Wassily Kandinsky

Gaslight | When the personal becomes political

Atom Heart Mother is Pink Floyd’s weirdest experiment

Slanted & Enchanted | Cut up noises over the success

Beyondless | Deconstructing punk music

The Chapel of the Holy Shroud is a journey towards the light

Guarino Guarini

The Road explores climate crisis and alienation

Cormac McCarthy

Vita, Morte e Miracoli di Bonfiglio Liborio

Dark is an exception among TV shows

I Know This Much is True | A centrifuge of sadness

Derek Cianfrance

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

Vesela Kazakova

Manchester by the Sea | An emotional study on grief

Kenneth Lonergan

Midsommar | Ari Aster’s horror fairy tale

How Ride the Lightning helped establish the metal genre

Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological thriller

Alfred Hitchcock

Saint Jerome in his study | A new humanist iconography

Antonello da Messina

The New York Trilogy is a brilliant philosophical adventure

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | Beauty unfold

Unbelievable | A story of injustice

Teatro Olimpico | Is the greatness of things merely an appearance?

Andrea Palladio

Invisible Cities | A love poem to the city

Amour | An experience

The Lick On The Tip Of An Envelope Yet To Be Sent

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

William Hogarth

Unorthodox | Finding one own’s voice

The Broom of the System is like the pendulum of a clock

David Foster Wallace

The Allegory of Good and Bad Government has a didactic aim

Ambrogio Lorenzetti and his school

In the Mood for Love | Loneliness and expectation

The Candidate | American politics before the Watergate

Michael Ritchie

The Raising of Lazarus shows Caravaggio’s innovations

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Lost | The first mainstream phenomenon on TV

Ultra Mono | The Idle’s mix of grit and frailty

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Between the World and Me | Opening a third way to fight

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Blues for The Red Sun | Where Psychedelia meets the Desert

Test Videogames 1

Westworld | Free will is not free

The spontaneous discipline of Anne Imhof’s Faust

Contemporary Art

Love in the Time of Cholera marks the peak of the author’s ascendancy

Gabriel García Márquez

My Brilliant Friend has a unifying power

Throne of Blood | Translating Shakespeare into Film

Rayuela | Playing with the novel

Julio Cortázar

I Am Not Your Negro | Witnessing American History

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

Lolita | A character taking on a life of its own

Vladimir Nabokov

The Underground Railroad tells more than Black history

Colson Whitehead

Watchmen | A subversion of the superhero

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

Altri Libertini feels like a punch in the stomach

Pier Vittorio Tondelli

Chernobyl | What history can teach

The Lighthouse portrays the struggle of humanity

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

One Hundred Years of Solitude | History in a family saga

Gabriel García Márquez

Otto Dix’s Metropolis displays social and existential crisis

The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories

Ernest Hemingway

BoJack Horseman | A human journey

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

The Triumph of Death and its strong symbolism

Anonymous (possibly of Catalan or Provencal origins)

The Chamber of the Abbess | The impossible art reproduction

Antonio Allegri detto Correggio

The Pesaro Altarpiece and the painting within a painting

Giovanni Bellini

Fahrenheit 451 transcends the boundaries of science fiction

The Unbearable Lightness of Being exposes love’s dynamics

Camere Separate | The search for a balanced existence

Pier Vittorio Tondelli

There Existed An Addiction To Blood | Between cinema and human nature

Polyhymnia | Muses and women celebration

Tiffany McDaniel’s The summer that melted everything

Tiffany McDaniel

Mad Men | The pursuit of happiness in American society

The Undoing is not only a murder story

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Luis Borges’ Fictions is a game of chance

Jorge Luis Borges

Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail to the Dark Lioness

Contemporary Art

The Master and Margarita| Mikhail Bulgakov’s troubled novel

Mikhail Bulgakov

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

Charles Bukowski

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