In a bastion of artistry and intellectual seriousness, Schrader engages the problem of Mishima and provides an answer through extravagant, thoughtful filmmaking.

“Would everything be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?”

A murder mystery in which no murder has been committed.

Ousmane Sembène’s film is about female comradeship against male-dominated rituals over their bodies.

A brilliant and devastating allegory for postcolonial subjectivity.

Its emotional brutality, cruelty, and violence as relentless as his most popular work.

Haneke portrays the tragedy when an individual or country cannot remember their uncomfortable national or personal history, or more accurately, do not want to.

Tarkovsky explores time, space, and their disjointed representation in a poetic science-fiction masterpiece.

Classic Hollywood productions rarely had two directors, and if they did, the result was a studio creation and not shaped by the vision of a single auteur. The exception is Singin’ in the Rain, the 195...