Jean-Luc Godard’s film, Breathless (1960), is according to many film scholars difficult to classify in terms of genre. Relative to uncoverin...

Diwali, or Deepavali, is one of the biggest festivals in India. More than a billion Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, and Buddhists in the world celebra...

In 1982, when Bladerunner was released, 2019 could only have been a blink of an eye in people’s thoughts. Even the year 2001, the year in wh...

Our species is capable of horrific cruelty that defies any claim of having a conscience, and yet we can be willing to override our otherwise...

The film, Eyes without a Face (original title: Les Yeux sans Visage ) (1960), can be taken as a demonstration of the validity of Kant’s ethi...

The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) is on the surface a partial chronicle of the marriages of King Henry VIII of England, but, underneath,...

Volodymyr Denyssenko’s film, Conscience (1968), is set in a small Ukrainian village under Nazi occupation during World War II. Vasyl, a Ukra...

In introducing a screening of Golda (2023) at Yale, Shiri Goren, a faculty member in the university’s Near Eastern Languages department, tol...

In the context of the embroiled hatred violently spewing out between Israelis and Palestinians in October 2023, some rich, very vocal alumni...

The medium of film literally consists of “talking” pictures in succession; that is to say, sound and image. Amidst astounding technological ...

Mel Gibson’s  The Passion of the Christ  (2004) hinges on the root meaning of  passion , which is suffering. In fact, Jesus’ body is reduced...

The film, I Am Cuba (1964), consists of four vignettes that depict what Cuba was in its pre-revolutionary day beyond the wealthy gloss of th...

Rainbow (1944) is a Soviet patriotic propaganda film about the brutal Nazi-German occupation of a village in Ukraine. Filmed in 1943 while U...

In  Valley of Peace  (1956), a Black American pilot and two Slovenian children head towards a valley in which the boy’s uncle lives—a valley...

C. S. Lewis aptly describes in one published lecture the nature of a very human game, which is really about how soft power, which is often b...