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The intimate non-affairs of Wong Kar Wei’s two great films, shot in a uniquely futuristic palette of colors, trace the

In Alphaville, Godard’s low budget, absurdist take on the science fiction genre, the traditional film noir private eye, a cynical

Mainstream movies focus on pleasure. Sentimentality, jolts of fright, the momentum of action, the relief of laughter. They deal in

You could chalk up every move, either mental decision or physical locomotion, the characters make in these three movies to

Of course Eliza Doolittle, in this world we all live in, with her thin frame and 90 degree jawline and

Like the era of Day-Lewis’ tour de force, hate-filled construction Bill the Butcher, the politics of the 2010’s in America

The essential audacity at the core of 2001 is twofold. First, its four part structure, where each of the four

Great American satirists like Robert Altman and Tom Wolfe eagerly eviscerate traditional ideals, revealing the bureaucratic absurdity at the heart

Those to whom no distant horizons beckon … for whom no challenges remain … though they have inherited a Universe

A beautiful succession of eight compositions by Director Kenji Misumi for Fight, Zatoichi, Fight (1964). A mother sings a haunting

Warren Oates’ misanthropic anti-hero Bennie in Sam Peckinpah’s Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is a sleazy piano player

Multi-layered jazz, 60’s era nightclubs, hidden swastikas, sweaty Village apartments, Rockefeller Center at Christmas… the score, compositions, strong chiaroscuro and

Decasia (2002) is the astounding epilogue to Peter Jackson’s The Return of the King. Where the Lord of the Rings