Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan (1998, directed by Steven Spielberg): In addition to being an action movie set in World War II, this film is a …
Vertigo
Vertigo (1958; directed by Alfred Hitchcock): Vertigo is Hitchcock’s best film, ranking #1 in the Sight & Sound critics’ poll of the ‘best movies …
Tree of Life
Tree of Life ((2011; directed by Terrence Malick): Malick’s film is the only one I know in which the origin of the universe, and …
Memento
Memento (2000; directed by Christopher Nolan): Ostensibly Memento is a film about a man with a brain injury that renders him unable to form …
L’Année dernière à Marienbad [Last Year at Marienbad]
L’Année dernière à Marienbad[Last Year at Mariebad] (1961; directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet & Alain Resnais, French with English subtitles.): Philosophers like Descartes took solipsism …
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Breaker Morant
Breaker Morant (1980; directed by Bruce Beresford): In 1902, several Australian soldiers in the British army’s struggle in the second Anglo-Boer War were court-martialed …
Blade Runner 2049
Blade Runner 2049 (2017; directed by Denis Villeneuve): Blade Runner 2049 is the long-awaited sequel to Ridley Scott’s (1982) Blade Runner. Set 30 years …
Blade Runner
Blade Runner (1982; directed by Ridley Scott): On the surface Blade Runner, appears to be just another dystopian sci-fi film loosely modeled on the …
Alien3
Alien3 (1992: directed by David Fincher): Alien3 is Fincher’s first film, and its famously troubled production and mixed reception have contributed to its being …