Nolan’s Tenet starts in medias res like a Bond film with the vast crowd in the opera house (Nolan has declared his love for the 1977 Roger Moore Bond The Spy Who Loved Me)

Provocateur Pier Paolo Pasolini officially moved away from the neorealist-leanings in his early work for his fifth feature (and first in color)- Oedipus Rex The is the first in the “mythical cycle” series (Teorema, Porcile,

The pictorial beauty of Kurosawa's landscape long shots are masterpiece worthy—Kurosawa makes great use of every extra, color flourish in the frame, and set piece --whether it’s the mountains in the final climax battle, the

Sound of Meal is the debut film from Darius Marder—it touts an exquisite use of sound design and lead performance from Riz Ahmed. Marder’s sound design- coupled with some nice camera location choices (often right

There are three previous archiveable versions of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women-- but Gerwig’s version is utterly distinct and cinematically spectacular—the only one remotely close in quality (and they’re all in the archives) is Cukor’

Precise, captivating and confident- Rian Johnson is in full control here It is the auteur's fifth feature film- the narrative twist like Looper with the biting dialogue of his debut Brick  even when you've solved

If it wasn’t already clear with his twin disappointments 2005 (no matter what redeeming qualities Tideland has it is hard to say it isn’t a disappointment)—The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus confirms that the Gilliam from

Eliza Hittman (writer/director) crafts the harrowing of a pregnant teenager Autumn (played by Sidney Flanigan in her debut) Shot in 16mm—realism, the story takes place over a few days where the characters get very little

Mamma Roma is Pasolini’s sophomore effort- and a brilliant companion piece to his 1961 debut Accattone Like Accattone it is an acidically-laced religious (catholic in this case) parable rooted in the foundation of Italian neorealism