Barry Jenkins

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West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty

Cinema as action, a vital masterpiece of verve and invention.

Taxi Driver

Scorsese and Schrader, lithe and lethal, a nihilistic symphony for the city of dreams.

Beau travail

Claire cuts deep – a truly sensorial cinema. The film lunges off the screen at you. You can taste this one. You smell it. It overwhelms.

In the Mood for Love

Movement and stasis as theme and aesthetic, tension and release. His greatest greatness.

Sátántangó

An uncompromising masterwork. Humbling.

SZEGÉNYLEGÉNYEK

Cinema is just past its 125th year. So young. Miklós Jancsó's contained epic of desperate glances and oppressive light is a nearly silent film that harnesses movement and silhouette to build form as thematic impact. There remains so much to be seen.

2001: A Space Odyssey

Me upon first seeing this: "I guess... a film CAN be about everything."

Hidden

Not a wasted frame. Not a single damn one.

Do the Right Thing

The William Shakespeare of Bed-Stuy's most devastating tragicomedy. For many of us, Spike IS the canon. Cinema is incomplete without him.

Killer of Sheep

Charles' contribution to cinema – to a very particular cinema – has for too long gone understated. A monumental work.

Further remarks

This was impossible.

But damn if it wasn't fun.