Jacques Tati’s Playtime (1967) remains a masterpiece of visual comedy reminding viewers of our own contemporary constructions that threaten to engulf us.
Read MoreFor director Shaun Seneviratne, life is cinema and cinema is life. His first feature film, Ben and Suzanne: A Reunion in Four Parts, which debuted at SXSW this year, places the viewer as a fly on the wall, witnesses to a week in the life of a couple’s attempt to figure out their future. It is the result of a fourteen-year-long filmmaking process.
Read MoreMiles Davis’ breathtaking trumpet score elevates Louis Malle’s 1958 Elevators to the Gallows to a mid-century classic, enshrining a moment of musical evolution in film.
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