Marco Ferreri’s masterpiece Dillinger is Dead, certainly subversive and unique in its style, picked up what was in the air, in the antimainstream air permeated with social unease and shifting perspectives of ’68, to be more precise.

In Blind Chance, Kieslowksi alters the national identity of the national cinema, one sided storytelling, and uplifting messages that creates passion to work for one’s country, making the movie an example of transnational cinema.

There are two ways that Anderson makes a better movie by telling it as a series of experiences. The first is how the mode of storytelling really allows for the theme of paranoia to be driven home.

As elegantly as the camera wanders through the picturesque but merciless scenery or the reindeer herd blocking the wintry streets, this complex and bold, 2002 paraphrase of several themes from Shakespeare's King Lear to the Parable of the Prodigal Son carefully balances over the borders of various genres of black comedy and powerful, bitter family drama, following at the same time in the footsteps of Henrik Ibsen and Ingmar Bergman, urging the audience to "se sanningen i vitögat"—face up to the harsh reality.

While the film presents a world where the have and have-nots are more different than simply what is in their bank accounts, it also presents a veiled criticism of the American dream itself: the ideal that is encapsulated by the ability to achieve success in a country filled with opportunities for the hard working.

Leone, as antiquated as some of his techniques may be, reimagines the gangster genre, the overly masculine figures that populate them, and the very concept of love, friendship, and betrayal in a work whose title includes “once upon a time.”

I found myself downstairs, watching Saving Private Ryan with a room half full of strangers. The scene where the terrified American soldier stands trembling on the staircase as his buddy is killed upstairs, played on screen.

Film reels and journals created when he wasn't expecting a global audience solidify his life, saying: I lived. I lived. Isn't that what most of us want, to be remembered?