The Last Picture Show is a 1971 black-and white-movie about high school students becoming adults. This straightforward narrative picture about growing up in a small town in Texas in the early fifties was Peter Bogdanovich’s first great success. It’s plain and blunt in its re-creation of what it means to be a high-school athlete in small-town America, of what a country dance hall is like, of the necking in cars and movie houses, and of the loneliness that follows high-school…

Oldboy (2003) – Montage Perspective
Directed by Park Chan-wook and based on the manga narrative of Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya, Oldboy (2003) is a Korean thriller movie revolving around the bewildering life of Dae-su – a man who falls into an endless spiral of unfortunate events that change his life forever. His downfall begins when he is kidnapped in a drunken state on the night of his daughter’s birthday and incarcerated in a special cell for 15 years. What’s…

Taxi Driver is a 1976 American psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorcese, written by Paul Schradder, and starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Leonard Harris, and Albert Brooks, was a critical and commercial success upon release and nominated for four Academy Awards, including for Best Picture, Best Actor (for De Niro) and Best Supporting Actress (for Foster) Taxi Driver won the Palme d’Or at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.

The film follows the…

The Battle of Algiers (1966)

The Battle of Algiers narrates a chapter of the Algerian War of Independence which played out in the streets of Algiers in the 1950s.

The movie is shot in a documentary style on a black-and-white reel, casting non-professional actors (and even real-life survivors) so as to not let stardom intrude on the focus of the movie. Most of it is shot in the Muslim quarters of the city - a claustrophobic place with narrow, stepped…