Fear of the Unknown. Horror has long contemplated the relationship between that which lurks in the darkness and the fear thereof. While the genre often attempts to illuminate unseen terrors in monster...

When unveiled to its patrons in the civic militia guard, Rembrandt van Rijn’s The Night Watch receives scolding laughter and protests that noblemen were depicted so shamefully, that several of the por...

Quentin Tarantino’s dialogue provides the basis for the most unforgettable moments in Pulp Fiction, even amid scenes depicting an accidental gunshot to the head, drug overdose, fetishist leather rape,...

Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander regards family through the curious, innocent eyes of a child, observing its illusions and relating its painful truths. The filmmaker equates family and adulthood t...

Samuel Fuller made films about survivors. Whether they tromped through the perils of war and came out alive or faced up against one of society’s more menacing social problems, his brand of hard-boiled...

Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey does not require audiences to follow a story realized with dramatic character arcs and a traditional narrative structure, but rather it compels an elusive senso...

Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman made The Seventh Seal in 1957; however, its allegorical power has since ascended into the realm of timelessness. Closely developed from his one-act play Painting on Wo...

The maligned directorial history of Orson Welles offers an archetypal cautionary tale and horror story for other filmmakers to reflect upon and ultimately avoid. Welles stands in for every visionary d...

Movie Magic, however conceptual a notion, offers an understanding of how motion pictures converge from multiple points of artistic influence under the sometimes chaotic circumstances of their creation...