Brother (Aleksey Balabanov, 1997)

At the vanguard of capitalism: CDs, VCRs, and action heroes of their own. 

Oleanna (David Mamet, 1994)

Battling with (and for) language 

Some Came Running (Vincente Minnelli, 1958)

Buy yourself a Quonset hut

Still Walking ( Hirokazu Kore-Eda, 2008)

White butterflies becoming yellow butterflies

Time Indefinite (Ross McElwee, 1993)

Capturing life on film, so it can’t slip away 

Exotica (Atom Egoyan, 1994)

Aftershocks of a tragedy (again)

Hugo (Martin Scorcese, 2011)

Weaving the fabric of dreams

Calendar (Atom Egoyan, 1993)

Four-part images (camera, Armenia, him, her); each is one side of the story. 

32 Short Films About Glenn Gould (François Girard, 1993)

A life in fragments 

Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch, 1939)

“The last mass trials were a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians.”

A Tale of Springtime (Eric Rohmer, 1990)

First games, then the people who play them. 

House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello, 2011)

“If we don’t burn, how will the night be lit?”