Amour (2012)
The main narrative of Amour opens disconcertingly. Retired music teachers – M. and Mme. Laurent – return home after hearing a performance from their former pupil…
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Examining ‘Chinatown’
What did you do in Chinatown? As little as possible. Town derived this classic exchange, as well as the title of the film itself,…
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The Pumpkin Eater
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I do believe that Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater, the creepy nursery rhyme from which the title of this film is…
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Thelma & Louise
Thelma and Louise are two girlfriends — respectively a docile housewife and a tough ol’ waitress — who decide to take some time off from their…
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The White Countess
Shanghai, 1936. Following a series of personal and professional struggles, former American diplomat Todd Jackson renounces his old, respectable life. With Japanese aggression looming…
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Tokyo Story
An elderly couple, Shukichi and his wife Tomi Hirayama, decide to visit their grown-up children. They make the long journey from their sleepy little…
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The Browning Version (1951)
The Browning Version follows the final days of term for a classics schoolmaster. Due to his ill health, Andrew Crocker-Harris is forced into an…
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The Graduate
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The Great Gatsby (1974)
What makes Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby a classic novel is its utterly gorgeous prose. It is also this quality which arguably makes Gatsby the epitome of the…
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Shadowlands
After a few years of correspondence, two people make arrangements for tea at a little café in Oxford. The trouble is, they’ve never met…
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