I could write a book on this film. Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy is one of those rare films that continues to yield more and more meaning, nuance and depth for me with each viewing. I’ve already written about the idea of originality both in art and life in...

Graham Greene’s story in The Third Man does a fantastic job of subverting storytelling expectations, and while there are several ways to examine how the film does that, the story functions as an anti-Western. I don't mean its a searing political critique of th...

Robert Bresson’s simple and meticulous account of the real-life escape of Andre Devigny—called Fontaine (François Leterrier) in the film—is similar, yet different, than the typical escape movie. While it deals with issues of hope, patriotism, oppression and li...

The first film in Andrzej Wajda’s war film trilogy, A Generation is a coming of age film set in Poland during German occupation. Stach (Tadeusz Lomnicki), an apprentice at a carpentry shop, joins the Youth Underground more because the lovely Dorota (Urszula Mo...

When discussing The Double Life of Veronique, a lot of people make the mistake of approaching the film more from a metaphysical sense. Yes, a lot of what makes the film compelling are the ideas surrounding the notion of identity and the soul, metaphysical conc...

If I ask a movie buff what he or she expects from The Criterion Collection, I’ll probably hear talk about an excellently crafted, artfully made film released with a high standard of audio/visual quality and a handful of in-depth special features. And while the...