Denis Villeneuve's ARRIVAL is a thought experiment about how a language determines our way of thinking. On another level, the film chall...

John Ford's SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON is a rare Technicolor cavalry western of the era that exploits more than just the usual uniform col...

Probably best known for Alec Guiness playing eight different members of the same family, Robert Hamer's Ealing comedy KIND HEARTS AND CO...

Max Ophüls's LE PLAISIR is so brimfull of pure cinema, it is a perfect film to study. Cinematographers Philippe Agostini and Christian ...

Telephone conversations are a central storytelling device in Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's LA FILLE INCONNUE . Most often we see - some...

Ward Bond as Father Lonergan is not your average voice-over narrator of a 1950s film. But then, THE QUIET MAN is not your average 1950s fil...

Just when I was convinced that Spielberg exhausted the concept of an "audience surrogate who is not the protagonist" with Short Ro...

For theater and big screen actors, hands are as important a tool as their face. Tim Burton seems to emphasize that aspect in his expressioni...

Shindo Kaneto's independently produced "modern parable" ONIBABA (THE DEMONESS) is mostly taking place "within a claustro...

The exteriors of John Ford's THE QUIET MAN were largely shot on location in Ireland (in glaring contrast to the unconvincing studio set...