The Sacrifice (1986) A Film by Andrei Tarkovsky

The Sacrifice is the unusual brainchild of Andrei Tarkovsky and Ingmar Bergman, two of my favorite filmmakers, and as such there’s no reaso...

Santa Sangre (1989) A Film by Alejandro Jodorowsky

For all its admittedly surreal flourishes and bonkers left-turns, Santa Sangre is actually provocateur Alejandro Jodorowsky's least an...

A Visual Guide to the Credit Sequence of Robert Altman's The Player

Like Orson Welles' Touch of Evil , a film self-consciously referenced a number of times throughout, Robert Altman's The Player lays...

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) A Film by Stephen Spielberg

( This is a belated contribution to the Spielberg Blogathon hosted by Ryan Kelly of Medfly Quarantine and Adam Zanzie of Icebox Movies . I...

The New World (2004) A Film by Terrence Malick

That a philosopher could come to cinema and make films that not only revel in the dexterity of their ideas but also swoon in a symphony of e...