The Sorrowful Poetry of Abbas Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry

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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) A Film by Wes Anderson

After countless viewings, Wes Anderson's formally stunning The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is a film that maintains its ability to e...

Indelible Images from the Decade

So much of cinema's power is derived from context and montage that the impact of individual images is often accidentally neglected. On o...

Birth (2004) A Film by Jonathon Glazer

Jonathon Glazer's sophomore effort Birth boasts a central premise as silly on the surface as a Disney Channel comedy: Anna (Nicole Kidm...

Naked (1993) A Film by Mike Leigh

Mike Leigh's Naked is a film that comes at us with words, yet in its own way is wholly cinematic. Many of the keys to understanding and...

Sawdust and Tinsel (Gycklarnas afton) A Film by Ingmar Bergman (1953)

Ingmar Bergman's career prior to his international arthouse landmark The Seventh Seal is shrouded in mist and routinely neglected as in...

Shutter Island (2010) A Film by Martin Scorsese

( DISCLAIMER: It would be absolutely silly to read this essay without having seen the film yet. Needless to say however, there will be spoil...

Play Time (1967) A Film by Jacques Tati

While watching Jacques Tati's exuberant 1967 film Play Time , during every shot you are confronted with an alarming decision of what to ...