Caught in a Kansas tornado, young Dorothy finds herself in a strange and colorful new world that feels familiar enough, but simply isn’t home. Peppered with iconic lines like “we’re not in Kansas any more” and “pay no attention to that man behind the curtain,” Read More …
One of the most attractive visual meditations on pilgrimage that Wim Wenders has ever committed to film, Paris, Texas chronicles the spiritual and geographical journey of one lost man who begins to realize what his life is missing, seeing for the first time the ripple Read More …
A baton-twirling teen falls for the James Dean of garbage men, and they’re off on a romantic cross-country killing spree, inspired by the famous 50s criminal pair Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate. To this day, the pair’s apparent detachment from the gravity of their Read More …
A teenage city-girl and her young brother, stranded in the Australian outback, are rescued by an adolescent Aborigine boy on a “walkabout” (a survival ritual leading to his transition into manhood). A visually stunning work about the tenuous bond formed between these three characters, Walkabout Read More …
“What makes a man to wander? What makes a man to roam? What makes a man leave bed and board / And turn his back on home?” John Wayne and Jeffrey Hunter walk a long, hard road in John Ford’s celebrated, troubling The Searchers, a Read More …
Apocalypse Now treads into the dark heart of humanity: horrifying but sadly not unfamiliar territory. Captain Willard is sent upriver during the Vietnam War to exterminate the rogue Colonel Kurtz, “with extreme prejudice.” Along the way he and his comrades must confront their own demons, Read More …
After directing a string of shallow comedies, John Sullivan wants to do something important. To gather material for his chronicle of the downtrodden, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Sullivan travels the country as a homeless man, and learns a lesson about the value of joy Read More …
In a matter of 10 minutes, we fall in love with Carl and Ellie’s romance as it springs up, blooms, then withers under the winter of death. A grieving, elderly Carl sets off on a journey with young stowaway Russell in order to fulfill the Read More …
Munyurangabo — a film made by the Korean-born American filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung with the help of Rwandans— follows Sangwa, a prodigal son of the Hutu people, and his friend ‘Ngabo, a boy from the Tutsi people. As you can imagine, their trek across the Read More …
In the waning days of World War II, Mizushima, a private in the Japanese Imperial Army, is lost and presumed dead. Having failed in his mission, he disguises himself as a Buddhist monk and travels across Burma to re-unite with his unit, and in the Read More …