Not Impossible to Touch: When Time Stands Still in Before Sunrise
“So, think of this as time travel from then, to now, to find out what you’re missing out on,” saysContinue Reading
Category: 14 Days of Love
As part of Cineccentric’s 14 Days of Love, we share a favorite romance film of ours- classic or contemporary- every day of February leading up to Valentine’s Day at midnight.
An Original Imitation: Love and Art in Certified Copy
Is a copy of art valuable on its own, simply something that leads to the original, or is it evenContinue Reading
Cinema Paradiso: Love Through the Lens of Experience
As the lights dim in the theater, the eyes of the six-year-old boy light up. His eyes are so wideContinue Reading
Letting Go of the Past in My Sassy Girl
If you were Korean or around Koreans at the turn of the century, My Sassy Girl would have been partContinue Reading
Romance Through Fantasy in The Shape of Water
“When he looks at me, the way he looks at me… he does not know what I lack. Or howContinue Reading
Leaving Las Vegas: Selfless Love for Selfish People
Love is an optimistic feeling. Besides offering an immediate sensation of fleeting joy, it promises a future where that feelingContinue Reading
About Time: All We Have to Decide is What to Do with the Time That is Given Us
Richard Curtis just may be the king of the romantic comedy. Writing Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, BridgetContinue Reading
Helpless and Tender: Codependence in Phantom Thread
Leave it to director Paul Thomas Anderson to make a romantic movie unlike one we have ever seen before. InsteadContinue Reading
Redemption Through Platonic Love in A New Leaf
In A New Leaf, Walter Matthau plays Henry Graham, a playboy with a profligate spending habit that bankrupts him andContinue Reading
A Bet on Love: My Night at Maud’s
With their philosophical and psychological dilemmas, Éric Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales weigh the fancies and uncertainties of romance with theContinue Reading
