On the uneasy duality of Identity in Mira Nair's The Namesake.
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The weight of family and the sacrifice for a better life in Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition.
On the journey to hell and back in The Crow.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dr. Zhivago makes me think of how my own parents measure time: before the revolution, and after it.
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.
When your body betrays you, who do you become?
