Eclipse (L'Eclisse) A Film by Michelangelo Antonioni (1962)

I have a troubling relationship with Michelangelo Antonioni's loose early 60's trilogy (the other two being L'Avventura (1960) ...

Taxi Driver (1976) A Film by Martin Scorsese

During a protracted scene of dialogue late in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver , a twelve year-old prostitute named Iris (a blossoming Jodi...

In the Mood for Love (Fa yeung nin wa) A Film by Wong-Kar Wai (2000)

Mr. Chow (Tony Leung) and Mrs. Chan's (Maggie Cheung) coincidental romance is doomed from the start. The two have moved into neighboring...

The Headless Woman (La mujer sin cabeza) A Film by Lucrecia Martel (2007)

The recent batch of audacious Argentinian films have come from some decidedly opaque filmmakers, but among them, Lucrecia Martel is the most...

The Hurt Locker (2008) A Film by Kathryn Bigelow

It is rare in American war films that we are presented with characters that are as alarmingly single-minded and undiscriminating as those in...

Three Colors: Blue (1993) A Film by Krzysztof Kieslowski

Krzysztof Kieslowski is a director who loves to devote a series of projects to a common theme, films that allegedly represent, or comment on...

Police, Adjective (Politist, Adj.) A Film by Corneliu Porumboiu (2009)

Corneliu Porumboiu's Police Adjective is strikingly similar in style to both Christian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (2007) a...

A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (2009) A Short Film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

The jungle is shockingly alive and direct in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's new short film A Letter to Uncle Boonmee , a fragment in "...