The films of Jean-Luc Godard, that great iconoclast of the French New Wave, have always…
The Film Canon
A series of articles and reviews of older movies that have entered, well, the film canon, for being creatively or culturally important. Everything from Citizen Kane to The Breakfast Club to Fargo to The Dark Knight. So we can all create a diverse list of essential movies for the young folk cinephiles to watch
The Film Canon: Black God, White Devil (1964)
By the 1960s Brazilian cinema was in a crisis. For almost a decade Brazil had…
The Film Canon: Total Recall (1990)
When he was at the height of his power, there wasn’t a more enigmatic screen…
The Film Canon: The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
It is impossible to discuss Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941) without examining the film’s two…
The Film Canon: It Happened One Night (1934)
It was a movie that shouldn’t have worked. Who in their right mind would try…
The Film Canon: Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s, based on the Truman Capote short story of the same name, stars…
The Film Canon: The Collected Works of Alice Guy-Blaché
Look closely. What do you see? It might help to squint a little. The footage…