“Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.”

Goodbye to Godard. An ode to a legacy of rebellion.

A true great. It’s impossible to overstate how much modern cinema owes to Jean-Luc Godard. With a career spanning six decades ranging from popular existentialist features with experimental flair, revolutionary socio-political manifestos, and avant-garde postmodern essay films about cinema itself, Godard’s filmography is as complex and conflicting as the enigmatic sunglasses-wearing chain-smoker himself.

Godard’s subversive and demanding brand of cinema sought…

“Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect.”

When we look back to pivotal moments that shaped our lives, oftentimes what we most vividly isn’t the details of what happened but the lingering feeling we are left with.

Andrei Tarkovsky was an arthouse film director who was endlessly fascinated by the spiritual and the metaphysical. Throughout his career, he devoted his brand of cinema to tackling questions concerning time, memory and our…

“I wanted to see him so bad that I didn't even dare imagine him anymore.”

Seemingly birthed from the dust that surrounds him, a man wordlessly emerges from the desert, trudging towards an invisible horizon. His face is weary and withered, his memory elusive, his soul haunted by sorrow.

Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas is a melancholic portrait of a broken man yearning for reconnection with a family he had left years ago. But much more so, the film is a…

“Let's never come here again because it would never be as much fun.”

A beautiful sadness slowly but surely permeates Sofia Coppola’s sophomore feature, Lost in Translation, a portrait of two lost souls yearning for purpose and meaningful connection. Bob and Charlotte are at an ime in their lives where they mutually feel neglected by loved ones and disoriented by the greater outside world.

Bob is a fading Hollywood actor in a midlife crisis. Charlotte is a young woman apprehensive…