Pitfall (Otoshiana) A Film by Hiroshi Teshigahara (1962)

Pitfall hurriedly opens as if it was spliced out of the middle of a Japanese thriller, however the scene is silent with the exception of th...

Umberto D. (1952) A Film by Vittorio De Sica

"A dog is a man's best friend" is a sentiment that has never been portrayed more aptly than it is in Vittorio De Sica's Um...

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) A Film by Andrew Dominik

There is certain grandeur in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford , a treatment of the Western landscape as a lively v...

Paranoid Park (2007) A Film by Gus Van Sant

Paranoid Park is the film from Gus Van Sant that directly follows his venture into conceptual art ( Gerry , Elephant , and Last Days , in t...

The Saddest Music in the World (2003) A Film by Guy Maddin

The 1930's were home to some great oddball studio films such as Freaks or Bela Lugosi's pictures, but none ever reached the lunacy ...

Slumdog Millionaire (2008) A Film by Danny Boyle

The decision that the Academy makes on "Best Picture" has always seemed to elude my understanding, so I was not necessarily surpri...

Zlateh the Goat (1973) A Short Film by Gene Deitch

Zlateh the Goat is a gently thought-provoking little super-8 film based off of a children's story of the same name by Isaac Bashevis Si...

You, The Living (Du Levande) A Film by Roy Andersson (2007)

A bottomless optimism repeatedly crawls out of the mouths of several of You, The Living's sleepwalking characters, giving Roy Andersson...

The Third Man (1949) A Film by Carol Reed

Carol Reed's noir thriller The Third Man contains a sequence towards the end that is often said to be one of Orson Welles' defining...