Film

Favorites

• Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou). Violence in opulence. A critique of gender roles and class divides within Chinese society.
• La jetée (Chris Marker). World War III. The everyday proves to be extraordinary, glimpsed through a parenthesis, in the midst of war.
• The Apu Trilogy (Satyajit Ray). Transience in black and white. Coming of age among the flickering shadows and lights of a changing India.
• Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai). Gritty violence, quick and quirky. A playful immersion into Hong Kong at the turn of the century.
• Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais). An embrace that scars. Intimacy intertwines with politics along the banks of the Ota River.
• Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock). A room with a view. Confined and injured, a detective spots crime around the block, or does he?
• Les Quatre Cents Coups (François Truffaut). Paris, a playground, a prison. Dreams of the sea and adulthood that comes too soon.
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick). An outward journey, inward. The vastness of outer space reveals the brief, the ephmeral.
• My Dinner with André (Louis Malle). What is a good life? A Socratic dialogue about everything from theater to electric blankets.
• Diarios de motocicleta (Walter Salles). A roadtrip through the Andes. Biopic of Che Guevara's youth, adventures, and his loftier ideals.