Valhalla Rising (2009) A Film by Nicholas WInding Refn

How many shots of scraggly Viking warriors sitting on a hill, staring out into nothingness, and occasionally muttering portentous pseudo-Bib...

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) A Film by Stanley Kubrick

All of the cliches that one could say about Stanley Kubrick's revolutionary sci-fi masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey - that it's ...

Wind Through the Cradle

If I've been particularly unproductive over the last few months here at Are the Hills Going To March Off? and elsewhere on the blogosph...

Inception (2010) A Film by Christopher Nolan

In his heavily commercial, post- Memento stages, Christopher Nolan has proven a better con artist than filmmaker, seducing the American mov...

The Seventh Seal (1957) A Film by Ingmar Bergman

The Seventh Seal is an unusual film in Ingmar Bergman's oeuvre; baroque, emphatic, and devilishly witty, it's everything his work s...

The Vanishing (Spoorloos) A Film by George Sluizer (1988)

At the center of George Sluizer's original 1988 version of The Vanishing (that is, before he made the inconceivable move to recreate it...

La Pointe Courte (1955) A Film by Agnes Varda

With little money, little experience, and little knowledge of the cinema, Agnes Varda made her peculiar debut film La Pointe Courte . The re...

Last of the Mohicans (1992) A Film by Michael Mann

If there's ever been a film that has made me itch for the hypothetical notepad and pen that I never keep while watching films, it's ...