“Would everything be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?”

A murder mystery in which no murder has been committed.

Ousmane Sembène’s film is about female comradeship against male-dominated rituals over their bodies.

A brilliant and devastating allegory for postcolonial subjectivity.

Its emotional brutality, cruelty, and violence as relentless as his most popular work.

Haneke portrays the tragedy when an individual or country cannot remember their uncomfortable national or personal history, or more accurately, do not want to.

Tarkovsky explores time, space, and their disjointed representation in a poetic science-fiction masterpiece.

Classic Hollywood productions rarely had two directors, and if they did, the result was a studio creation and not shaped by the vision of a single auteur. The exception is Singin’ in the Rain, the 195...

Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm, released by Fox Searchlight in 1997, contains arresting, complex images: a figure moving behind an ice-encrusted window, two adolescents sharing a kiss in a drained swimming p...