“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 camaraderie against male-dominated rituals imposed on their bodies.

A brilliant and devastating allegory for postcolonial subjectivity.

Martin Scorsese’s costume drama takes place in a social structure as brutal and emotionally violent as those in his crime films.

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

Andrei Tarkovsky’s poetic science-fiction masterpiece about time, space, and their disjointed representation.

It’s no exaggeration to call this the greatest musical ever made.

Ang Lee’s drama is an ideal case of what it means to be an “indie.”