Bonnie and Clyde is not, as once claimed, a hymn to violence but an elegy for all those who, in their quest for freedom, unknowingly shackled...
The Straight Story is a universal tale about each of us. I's simple: it has a beginning, a journey, and an end. But that this simplicity...
The Thin Red Line is not about war nor the men grappling with its horrors. Malick asks questions about humanity’s role in the struggle between good...
In Nights of Cabiria Fellini turns the life of a street girl into a secular hagiography, no less powerful than stories of unshakable faith in divine...
I deliberately avoid offering too many interpretations because I believe that One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a story that everyone must filter through...
Be Right Back, like the entirety of Black Mirror, is perhaps the first television creation that so strongly warns us against placing too much trust in...
Aronofsky's Pi is about the failure of rational mind in confronting fundamental questions. The boundary of scientific knowledge is far from solving the puzzle.
With Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior, Kurosawa gave cinema another masterpiece, poignant and truly monumental, profoundly sad, yet overwhelming in its beauty.
Unlike Solaris, where Tarkovsky retained elements that clearly linked it to science fiction, Stalker only briefly references cosmic themes.
The ambivalent bond between man and woman is alive in every story told by Has, and the element particularly fascinating and incomprehensible is invariably the woman.