For too long the world has underestimated what movies are capable of. At their best, movies have inoculated us against tyrannical ideologies, given us courage to live better lives, saved our sanity in times of crisis, and helped us to see a more wondrous world. They still have much work to do. Narrative film operates in mysterious ways, often below the level of consciousness, and this website aims to penetrate its mysteries.
The Cinematograph is a growing record of exploration, looking closely at movies to reveal insights that critics have missed.
List of 173 film reviews
| RELEASE DATE | TITLE | DIRECTOR |
|---|---|---|
| 1920-02-26 | Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | Wiene |
| 1923-10-16 | Warning Shadows | Robison |
| 1924-04-17 | Sherlock Jr. | Keaton |
| 1926-11-06 | Exit Smiling | Taylor |
| 1927-09-23 | Sunrise | Murnau |
| 1930-04-08 | Earth | Dovzhenko |
| 1931-01-30 | City Lights | Chaplin |
| 1932-01-20 | Blood of a Poet | Cocteau |
| 1932-05-06 | Vampyr | Dreyer |
| 1932-06-03 | I Was Born, But... | Ozu |
| 1934-04-24 | Atalante | Vigo |
| 1935-06-06 | 39 Steps | Hitchcock |
| 1936-02-05 | Modern Times | Chaplin |
| 1936-02-27 | Mr. Thank You | Shimizu |
| 1938-10-07 | Lady Vanishes | Hitchcock |
| 1939-01-27 | Idiot's Delight | Brown |
| 1939-03-17 | Midnight | Leisen |
| 1939-08-11 | Wizard of Oz | Fleming et al. |
| 1940-03-21 | Rebecca | Hitchcock |
| 1941-08-26 | Ornamental Hairpin | Shimizu |
| 1941-09-09 | Ladies in Retirement | Vidor |
| 1941-10-16 | Assassination of Père Noël | Christian-Jaque |
| 1942-04-22 | Saboteur | Hitchcock |
| 1942-07-10 | Nuit fantastique | L'Herbier |
| 1942-07-31 | Holiday Inn | Sandrich |
| 1942-11-26 | Casablanca | Curtiz |
| 1943-00-00 | Meshes of the Afternoon | Deren/Hammid |
| 1943-01-12 | Shadow of a Doubt | Hitchcock |
| 1943-04-08 | I Walked with a Zombie | Tourneur, J. |
| 1943-04-14 | Goupi Mains Rouges | Becker |
| 1943-04-21 | Hand of the Devil | Tourneur, M. |
| 1943-05-26 | Lumière d'été | Grémillon |
| 1943-11-13 | Day of Wrath | Dreyer |
| 1945-09-09 | Dead of Night | Dearden et al. |
| 1945-09-28 | Mildred Pierce | Curtiz |
| 1945-10-31 | Spellbound | Hitchcock |
| 1945-11-14 | Detour | Ulmer |
| 1945-11-19 | Brief Encounter | Lean |
| 1946-08-22 | Big Sleep | Hawks |
| 1946-09-25 | Beauty and the Beast | Cocteau |
| 1946-11-01 | Matter of Life and Death | Powell/Pressburger |
| 1946-12-07 | Green for Danger | Gilliat |
| 1947-04-11 | Monsieur Verdoux | Chaplin |
| 1947-04-24 | Black Narcissus | Powell/Pressburger |
| 1947-05-25 | Ghost and Mrs. Muir | Mankiewicz |
| 1948-12-01 | Parents terribles | Cocteau |
| 1949-01-19 | Such a Pretty Little Beach | Allégret |
| 1949-01-20 | Letter to Three Wives | Mankiewicz |
| 1949-09-01 | Third Man | Reed |
| 1949-09-13 | Late Spring | Ozu |
| 1950-03-01 | Orphée | Cocteau |
| 1950-03-29 | Enfants terribles | Melville |
| 1950-10-13 | All About Eve | Mankiewicz |
| 1951-02-07 | Diary of a Country Priest | Bresson |
| 1951-04-00 | Juliette, or the Key of Dreams | Carné |
| 1951-06-27 | Strangers on a Train | Hitchcock |
| 1951-10-03 | Early Summer | Ozu |
| 1952-02-22 | 5 Fingers | Mankiewicz |
| 1953-02-25 | Monsieur Hulot's Holiday | Tati |
| 1953-03-26 | Ugetsu monogatari | Mizoguchi |
| 1953-08-20 | Roman Holiday | Wyler |
| 1953-11-03 | Tokyo Story | Ozu |
| 1954-03-03 | Naked Jungle | Haskin |
| 1954-08-04 | Rear Window | Hitchcock |
| 1955-05-09 | Death of a Cyclist | Bardem |
| 1955-08-26 | Pather Panchali | Ray |
| 1956-08-29 | Burmese Harp | Ichikawa |
| 1956-11-11 | Man Escaped | Bresson |
| 1957-12-26 | Wild Strawberries | Bergman |
| 1958-05-09 | Vertigo | Hitchcock |
| 1958-08-19 | Conflagration | Ichikawa |
| 1958-08-26 | Eighth Day of the Week | Ford |
| 1958-10-10 | Music Room | Ray |
| 1959-05-08 | Hiroshima mon amour | Resnais |
| 1959-08-26 | Night Train | Kawalerowicz |
| 1959-11-03 | Fires on the Plain | Ichikawa |
| 1959-11-17 | Floating Weeds | Ozu |
| 1959-12-05 | Fever Mounts at El Pao | Buñuel |
| 1959-12-16 | Pickpocket | Bresson |
| 1960-02-19 | Devi | Ray |
| 1960-03-10 | Plein soleil | Clément |
| 1960-04-22 | Bonnes femmes | Chabrol |
| 1960-05-15 | Avventura | Antonioni |
| 1960-06-16 | Psycho | Hitchcock |
| 1961-01-24 | Notte | Antonioni |
| 1961-07-01 | Woman Is a Woman | Godard |
| 1961-08-29 | Last Year at Marienbad | Resnais |
| 1961-10-29 | End of Summer | Ozu |
| 1962-03-09 | Knife in the Water | Polański |
| 1962-04-11 | Cléo from 5 to 7 | Varda |
| 1962-04-12 | Eclisse | Antonioni |
| 1962-05-16 | Exterminating Angel | Buñuel |
| 1962-08-28 | Vivre sa vie | Godard |
| 1963-02-09 | Winter Light | Bergman |
| 1963-05-31 | Carabiniers | Godard |
| 1963-09-03 | Servant | Losey |
| 1963-09-27 | Big City | Ray |
| 1964-04-17 | Charulata | Ray |
| 1964-07-09 | Marnie | Hitchcock |
| 1964-07-29 | Band of Outsiders | Godard |
| 1964-09-07 | Red Desert | Antonioni |
| 1965-05-05 | Alphaville | Godard |
| 1965-08-29 | Pierrot le fou | Godard |
| 1965-12-01 | I Knew Her Well | Pietrangeli |
| 1966-00-00 | Black Girl | Sembène |
| 1966-05-15 | Au hasard Balthazar | Bresson |
| 1966-10-18 | Persona | Bergman |
| 1966-11-10 | Quiller Memorandum | Anderson |
| 1966-12-03 | Made in U.S.A. | Godard |
| 1966-12-05 | Time Walks Through the City | Grikevičius |
| 1966-12-16 | Andrei Rublev | Tarkovsky |
| 1966-12-18 | Blow-Up | Antonioni |
| 1967-03-17 | 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her | Godard |
| 1967-12-29 | Weekend | Godard |
| 1968-04-02 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Kubrick |
| 1969-10-00 | Structure of Crystal | Zanussi |
| 1969-12-17 | Topaz | Hitchcock |
| 1970-02-09 | Zabriskie Point | Antonioni |
| 1970-02-27 | Boucher | Chabrol |
| 1970-06-27 | Man Who Left His Will on Film | Oshima |
| 1970-08-26 | Rupture | Chabrol |
| 1971-06-02 | Whity | Fassbinder |
| 1971-12-19 | Clockwork Orange | Kubrick |
| 1972-02-05 | Solaris | Tarkovsky |
| 1972-06-25 | Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant | Fassbinder |
| 1972-12-21 | Cries and Whispers | Bergman |
| 1974-06-20 | Chinatown | Polański |
| 1975-02-18 | Passenger | Antonioni |
| 1975-06-04 | India Song | Duras |
| 1975-12-11 | Barry Lyndon | Kubrick |
| 1976-11-13 | Heart of Glass | Herzog |
| 1977-06-08 | Baxter, Véra Baxter | Duras |
| 1978-09-00 | Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting | Ruiz |
| 1979-05-00 | Stalker | Tarkovsky |
| 1980-05-23 | Shining | Kubrick |
| 1982-02-18 | Veronika Voss | Fassbinder |
| 1982-06-25 | Blade Runner | Scott |
| 1983-05-12 | Moon in the Gutter | Beineix |
| 1983-05-16 | Argent | Bresson |
| 1983-05-17 | Nostalghia | Tarkovsky |
| 1986-05-09 | Sacrifice | Tarkovsky |
| 1986-08-30 | Blue Velvet | Lynch |
| 1987-02-01 | Where Is My Friend's Home? | Kiarostami |
| 1987-06-17 | Full Metal Jacket | Kubrick |
| 1988-03-14 | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Almodóvar |
| 1989-04-12 | Roselyne and the Lions | Beineix |
| 1989-09-04 | Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover | Greenaway |
| 1993-00-00 | Antareen | Sen |
| 1994-01-30 | Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Elliott |
| 1996-05-13 | Breaking the Waves | Von Trier |
| 1998-06-01 | Truman Show | Weir |
| 1999-07-13 | Eyes Wide Shut | Kubrick |
| 1999-09-06 | Wind Will Carry Us | Kiarostami |
| 2000-05-17 | Dancer in the Dark | Von Trier |
| 2000-12-08 | Italian for Beginners | Scherfig |
| 2001-02-09 | Hannibal | Scott |
| 2001-05-16 | Mulholland Drive | Lynch |
| 2003-05-19 | Dogville | Von Trier |
| 2003-09-02 | Matchstick Men | Scott |
| 2005-05-14 | Caché | Haneke |
| 2006-09-01 | Dry Season | Haroun |
| 2006-09-06 | Inland Empire | Lynch |
| 2006-09-21 | Boss of It All | Von Trier |
| 2007-09-05 | In the City of Sylvia | Guerín |
| 2011-05-18 | Melancholia | Von Trier |
| 2011-05-19 | Day He Arrives | Hong |
| 2013-09-08 | Enemy | Villeneuve |
| 2013-10-03 | Counselor | Scott |
| 2014-05-17 | Wild Tales | Szifron |
| 2015-09-11 | Martian | Scott |
| 2016-09-01 | Arrival | Villeneuve |
| 2018-05-16 | Burning | Lee |
| 2022-09-09 | No Bears | Panahi |
Newest reviews:
1. Breaking the Waves
1996, Lars von Trier
added 9 May 2024
2. Dancer in the Dark
2000, Lars von Trier
added 2 May 2024
3. A Matter of Life and Death
1946, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
added 23 April 2024
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