Last Battle

Burn!, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo.

A Good Look

The Station Agent, directed by Thomas McCarthy.

Realism’s Redemption

Sweet Sixteen and Raising Victor Vargas.

Cheap Shots

Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine.

Twenty-first Century Woolf

On The Hours, directed by Stephen Daldry. 

Reel Terrorism

Reconsidering Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers.

Dreams and Deceptions

Zhang Yimou loses his muse.

Contingency and Grace

Jill and Karen Sprecher create characters worth believing in.

Innocents Abroad

We Were Soldiers, directed by Randall Wallace.

A Beautiful Illusion

John Nash and the Hollywood romance with mental illness.

Desperately Seeking Sex

Intimacy, directed by Patrice Chereau.

Absurd Humanism

Divided We Fall, directed by Jan Hřebejk and Petr Jarchovský.

Zhang Yimou’s Long Road Home

The personal and aesthetic odyssey of China's premier director.

No Defense

Political Football

Credit the Director

Dancer in the Dark, directed by Lars von Trier. 

My Brother’s Keeper

Shower, directed by Yang Zhang.

The Fresh Prince

Michael Almereyda's high-tech Hamlet is–surprise!–a serious interpretation of Shakespeare. 

Split Personality

Girl, Interrupted, directed by James Mangold. 

Shakespeare’s Tarantino Play

Titus, directed by Julie Taymor.

Beauty and Redemption

American Beauty and Elaine Scarry look for aesthetic experience in unexpected places. 

The Artist as Survivor

King of Masks, directed by Wu Tian Ming.

A New Hope

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

Lives of Women

The Autumn Tale, directed by Eric Rohmer.

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