Ingmar Bergman’s Summer with Monika is one of the most heartbreaking romantic films ever. Two working-class teenagers, Harry (Lars Ekborg) and Monika (Harriet Andersson), happen to meet in a cafe and subsequently fall in love. They escape the mundane daily life by quitting jobs and running away to the Stockholm Archipelago. There, they spend the …
Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, made at Studio Ghibli, is one of the most important and interesting animated films ever. In the film, one of the world’s greatest animators, Hayao Miyazaki, takes viewers to an enchanting, mystical, adventurous, and fantastical world where a very young girl named Chihiro experiences the world of Kami, or spirits, for …
Che Guevara is one of the most renowned revolutionaries of the 20th century. Countless t-shirts all over the world pay tribute to his immortal existence every day. Innumerable articles have been written about his activities and political ideologies. Walter Salles’s film The Motorcycle Diaries shows not exactly the revolutionary Che Guevara, but the awakening of his …
David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is one of the most well-made and dynamic neo-noir psychological crime thrillers of the 21st century. Even though it is based on the international bestseller psychological crime thriller novel of the same title by Swedish author Stieg Larsson, Fincher has made it in his own style. An …
Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman’s animated war documentary Waltz with Bashir is one of the most important and heartbreaking films ever. Through this film, Folman brings back the horrendous memories of the Sabra and Shatila massacre. His choice of animation over live action gave him complete freedom and flexibility while making this film. When Folman meets …
Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is one of the most magnificent and philosophical wuxia martial arts films ever. Like other wuxia films, it is also filled with multiple martial arts action sequences. However, the actions and dialogues in the film are deeply inspired and influenced by philosophical aspects. Despite fights, violence, and revenge, the …
Pedro Almodovar is one of the most important filmmakers of modern cinema. Women are always the central point of his films. Talk to Her is no exception and an important film made by the master. In the film, he weaves two love stories in a non-linear storyline with multiple flashbacks. The female lovers in both …
Ingmar Bergman is one of the most serious filmmakers ever. He never made films only for entertainment or good times. His films move us and take our thoughts on roller coaster rides. They confront the viewers with difficult scenarios and numerous questions. His films are filled with multiple sensitive and painful yet important issues like …
Ingmar Bergman’s Summer Interlude is one of the most beautiful films ever. Even though it appears as a melodrama, Bergman found his independent voice as a filmmaker for the first time with this film. He made other famous films with his brain, but Summer Interlude with his heart. A prima ballerina’s past romance that ended …
Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries is one of the most important films in the history of cinema. A seventy-eight-year-old, egotistical, self-centered, cold doctor and medical professor reflects on his past life in the final stage of his life and realizes that he worked diligently but did not receive true love and affection throughout his life. He …