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 …
In the first installment of what director Luis Buñuel would later call a trilogy about “the search for truth,” The Milky Way is a deconstruction of the Catholic Church via Her heresies. Two French beggars attempt to panhandle along The Way of St. James (nicknamed Read More …
As young filmmaker Anna leaves Germany, where she has just shown her latest work, she embarks on a series of train rides, and several extended conversations with friends and strangers, as she makes her return to Paris. Director Akerman, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, Read More …