On the uneasy duality of Identity in Mira Nair's The Namesake. Read More
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The Weight of Family and the Sacrifice for a Better Life in Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition. Read More
On the journey to hell and back in The Crow. Read More
The exclusivity of that Los Angeles phenomenon—and the loneliness inherent within it—is the focus of writer-director Sofia Coppola’s only male-centered film, Somewhere. Read More
In Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a carnal energy roils and simmers in the air, like the thunderstorms rolling in over the plantation, drenching everyone to the bone. Read More
Paradise Now provides humanity to the oppressed, even as years of continued violence chip away at their personhood, providing a defense of the disenfranchised and a portrait of damaged resilience that still remains incomparable nearly fifteen years later. Read More
Through the Olive Trees is about the melding of two guiding principles: the aching yearn we all have for human companionship, and the knowledge gained by peeking behind the cinematic curtain and seeing ourselves. Read More
Dr. Zhivago makes me think of how my own parents measure time: before the revolution, and after it. Read More
To be aware of beauty is to be corrupted by it, to develop a covetous lust for it, to equate possessing it with consuming it. Read More
When your body betrays you, who do you become? Read More