Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979) is not a war film; it is a film about the madness of war,…
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Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976) is a cinematic fever dream, a harrowing descent into the mind of a man detached…
Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves (1948) is a film of devastating simplicity and profound humanity. It is widely regarded as…
Shot on the war-torn streets of Rome just months after the Nazi occupation ended, Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City (1945)…
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, as Italy lay in social and economic ruin, a new kind of…
In 1960, a cinematic grenade was thrown into the polished world of international filmmaking. That grenade was À bout de…
In the late 1950s, a cinematic earthquake erupted in France, sending shockwaves that would permanently alter the landscape of global…
In the late 1960s, the polished, predictable world of classic Hollywood began to crumble. The “dream factory” that had churned…
Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather (1972) is more than a film; it is a foundational text of American cinema. While…