Emma Simmonds

In Charlie Chaplin’s ‘Modern Times’ the Little Tramp Steps Into the Future

‘Black Narcissus’ Is Truly, Madly, Hysterically Wonderful

‘The Red Shoes’: Dancing Defiantly To Its Own Tune

‘Tokyo Story’ is Resonant, Insightful and Superbly Performed and Directed

The Tangled, Trailing Tale of Michael Haneke’s WWI Mystery, ‘The White Ribbon’

The Tangled, Trailing Tale of Michael Haneke’s WWI Mystery, ‘The White Ribbon’

The mystery conceit in Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon acts as a hook and alludes to the larger mystery of wartime conformity and dangerous obedience, which it partly seeks to address.

Surviving Desire Is a Star-crossed Lovers’ Drama With an Absurdist Streak

Séraphine

Flame and Citron

Film Noir Classics: Volume One

People Like Us

The Last House on the Left

London to Brighton