Films
Read about the filmsFind a film by title, director, mood or the time you have.
A prisoner prepares an escape one sound, tool, and repeated gesture at a time.
As Apu grows from child to student, education opens a future whose distance from home becomes increasingly painful for his mother.
Women working in a Tokyo brothel try to secure a future while money, family and changing public attitudes restrict their choices. Mizoguchi keeps several lives in view rather than offering one representative victim.
A meticulously timed racetrack robbery is retold from the angles most likely to break it.
A media heir turns a serial-murder investigation into a competition among executives, reporters, and photographers seeking promotion.
Still deciding? Ask Momo.
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