Michelangelo Antonioni

Essay

A CENTURY OF ROMANCE

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we guide you through A Century of Romance, a series which brings together 10 superlative cinematic ruminations on love and love lost from around the world, one from each decade from the 1920s to the 2010s. Romance is timeless, but here’s our decade-by-decade look at cinematic love stories to…

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Essay

To Go on Living

Photo © Christian Geisnaes, courtesy of Magnolia Pictures. Essay [wpbb post:title] By CHRISTINE SMALLWOOD On Red Desert and Melancholia, two tales of female despair amid environmental foreboding made nearly 50 years apart. Breaking the Waves Whatever he takes for story-capital punishment, sex, religion-Lars von Trier is an artist of female suffering. His theory of the…

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