INDEPENDENT STUDY IN WORLD CINEMA

As my Independent Study in World Cinema continues, I dive deep into Jean Renoir's tragicomic critique of French society on the eve of the Second World War.

My long neglected Independent Study in World Cinema resumes with Jean Renoir's unfailingly humane masterpiece.

Lyrical, sensual, and wise, Jean Vigo's L'Atalante is a film about the stink of love, the squalor of love, the anger and boredom and perverse complexity of love.

Fritz Lang teaches us all how to catch a killer, and teaches a generation of filmmakers how to use sound effectively.

My Independent Study in World Cinema series gets a little surreal, as we examine a short cinematic fever dream from Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

Resuming my Independent Study in World Cinema after a long hiatus, I look at Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov's experimental, non-narrative documentary Man with a Movie Camera.

The subject of this week's Independent Study in World Cinema is a film that not only gave us one of film's greatest performances, but revolutionized the presentation of acting on-screen: Carl Theodor Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928).

In this week's Independent Study in World Cinema, I take a look at one of the most visually influential films of all time: Fritz Lang's seminal 1927 science-fiction classic METROPOLIS.

This is the third entry in the series “Independent Study in World Cinema,” in which this self-educated film nerd attempts to fill in some fairly serious gaps in his self-education. This week, I take a look at a film about revolution that sparked a revolution in film: Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 epic Battleship Potemkin.

Continuing the “Independent Study in World Cinema” series, I take a long look at the movie that—for better or worse—started cinema's love affair with vampires: F.W. Murnau's NOSFERATU: A SYMPHONY OF HORROR (1922).

A new series exploring influential films from around the world begins with Robert Weine's 1920 classic THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI.