Updated November 19, 2011 Frame grab from Roma, città aperta/Rome, Open City ( Roberto Rossellini , 1945) Projected on the war torn landsca...

Henry Fonda as Abraham Lincoln in Young Mr. Lincoln ( John Ford , 1939) Even if John Ford had not made his ten best movies (whichever they...

Image from In America ( Jim Sheridan , 2002), the first film to be (partly) shot in New York after the 9/11 terrorist attacks , according t...

  Image from Xala ( Ousmane Sembène , 1975). Read Teshome H. Gabriel's classic essay on this film: 'Xala: A cinema of wax and gol...

Links updated February 17 Two wounded men : an image of some of Avatar 's polysemic screen layers... "[F]or an allegory to be effe...