Films
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Earthly jealousy and post-revolutionary hardship spill into an angular fantasy of Mars, revolution, and desire.
Dziga Vertov and his collaborators assemble work, leisure, markets, bodies, and machines into an argument for a camera that sees social life differently from the human eye.
The montage that taught cinema how to shout.
A Mongolian trapper is exploited by occupying forces and transformed into a political symbol they believe they can control.
A soldier with amnesia gradually recovers memories and returns to a society transformed by revolution.
A city wakes, works, plays, and becomes cinema while the camera reveals its own tricks.
Wheat, rain, faces, and a new tractor carry a village drama beyond the limits of propaganda.
A thirteenth-century prince is called back to defend Novgorod against an invading Teutonic army.
War separates two young lovers and leaves the woman at home to endure loss, coercion, judgement, and uncertainty.
A young soldier receives a short leave to visit his mother, but the journey home fills with people whose wartime needs consume his limited time.
Four geologists searching for diamonds find themselves stranded in the Siberian wilderness.
A child scout crosses wartime marshes while dreams preserve a world already lost.
Four stories move through pre-revolutionary Cuba with a camera that seems able to cross walls, crowds, water, and history.
An icon painter crosses a violent medieval landscape while doubt interrupts both faith and artistic work.
A bourgeois intellectual remains in Havana after his family leaves Cuba, observing the revolution while avoiding any stable commitment to it or to other people.
Two Soviet partisans looking for supplies face a wartime test of survival, loyalty and betrayal.
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Read a film closely
Character companions, film comparisons and a closer look at particular scenes.
- Seven Samurai
Who are the seven samurai?
Names, actors and roles to keep the seven apart.
- The Wages of Fear
The original, Sorcerer, or the remake?
Three films compared before you choose.
- Breathless
What disappears in a jump cut?
A diagram of the time Godard leaves out.
- Wild Strawberries
What do the dreams mean?
Trace the clocks, mirror and final scene.
After watching · Spoilers - Persona
Why hear the same speech twice?
Follow who speaks and whose face fills the frame.
After watching · Spoilers - Bicycle Thieves
What happens at the end?
The final encounter, seen through father and son.
After watching · Spoilers