Julie Dash

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Moby Dick

A masterpiece of visual metaphors and cinematic storytelling. I first watched this movie on

television when I was a child and I continue to revisit to understand more and more as an

adult.

Lawrence of Arabia

I’m choosing this title for the structure of the storytelling, the cinematography, and

cinematic displays. This choice is not about the man T. E. Lawrence who committed

numerous wartime atrocities. For some, visual rhetoric does not outweigh politics, but one

can certainly appreciate the art of filmmaking in this title.

SE, JIE

Passion and politics have never been done better.

The Lives of Others

This is one perfect movie; a cautionary tale never grows old.

The Piano

Jane Campion takes us where dreams reside; challenges us to locate the central character

and demands we discover who is the hero or heroine in the story.

Raise the Red Lantern

Essential viewing for mothers and their daughters.

CHUNGKING EXPRESS

Noir films have never been the same since this offering of such unexpected pure joy.

The Woman King

Expressing feelings that can’t be told any other way, this is a film we’ve all been waiting for,

and it changes everything.

Ikiru

The cinema of sentimentality and truth produced to perfection.

Amores perros

Many have copied Inarritu’s cinematic masterpiece but never accomplishing the same

powerful drama, story form and structure. This is another film that changed how and why

we make movies.