Films
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An unpublished poet is dismissed by family and publishers, then becomes valuable to the same society after he is mistakenly reported dead.
War separates two young lovers and leaves the woman at home to endure loss, coercion, judgement, and uncertainty.
A restless married woman finds a new attraction that unsettles both her domestic life and an existing affair.
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.
A brief affair in Hiroshima opens a difficult passage between public catastrophe and private memory.
Two friends love the same mercurial woman across years of art, war, marriage, travel, and changing agreements.
After ending one relationship, a woman drifts into another amid the spaces and distances of modern Rome.
A lonely newspaper editor’s wife discovers her literary voice and a dangerous emotional intimacy when his poet cousin comes to stay.
A married literary scholar begins an affair, and a romance gradually takes on the pressure of a suspense story.
New York is photographed as a romance while its adults make a series of far less graceful choices.
An angel listening to Berlin’s private thoughts begins to long for weight, colour, touch, and one mortal life.
A lonely vampire moves through Bad City, where exploitation and desire already haunt the streets.
Two musicians repeatedly find and lose one another as borders, politics, and temperament change the terms of their love.
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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