Film

Favorites

• Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou). Violence in opulence. A critique of gender roles and class divides within Chinese society.
• My Dinner with André (Louis Malle). What is a good life? A Socratic dialogue about everything from theater to spirituality and electric blankets.
• The Apu Trilogy (Satyajit Ray). Transience in black and white. Coming of age among the flickering shadows and lights of a changing India.
• Diarios de motocicleta (Walter Salles). A roadtrip through the Andes. Biopic of Che Guevara's youth, adventures, and his loftier ideals.
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick). An outward journey, inward. The vastness of outer space reveals the brief, the ephmeral.
• Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai ). Gritty violence, quick and quirky. A playful immersion into Hong Kong at the turn of the century.