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Classics of Our Century: A Film History of the Twenty-First Century in the Making
Has the twenty-first century stopped producing classics?
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Introduction: Movies Keep Disappointing Us—Does the Twenty-First Century Still Have Great Films? 01. Béla Tarr, Hungary’s Uncompromising Director | Werckmeister Harmonies I 02. How Does the Film Differ from the Novel The Melancholy of Resistance? | Werckmeister Harmonies II 03. What Does the Whale Mean, and Why Does It Spark a Riot? | Werckmeister Harmonies III 04. How Do Béla Tarr’s Long Takes Differ from Those of Hou Hsiao-hsien and Bi Gan? | Werckmeister Harmonies IV 05. Quentin Tarantino’s No. 1 Film of the Twenty-First Century | Black Hawk Down I 06. Did the Director Intentionally Make the American Soldiers Hard to Tell Apart? | Black Hawk Down II 07. What Sets Black Hawk Down’s Audiovisual Language Apart from Popcorn Cinema? | Part III 08. How Do Ridley Scott and Steven Spielberg Film War Differently? | Black Hawk Down IV 09. From Bond to Bourne: The Spy Film Begins to Question the State | The Bourne Identity I 10. How Doug Liman Turned a Spy Film into a Fugitive Thriller | The Bourne Identity II 11. From Flight to Counterattack: How an Action Movie Designs Its Thrills | The Bourne Identity III 12. Why Bourne’s Story Should Have Ended with the Trilogy | The Bourne Identity IV 13. The Power of Fiction: Why Must Film Respect History’s Ending? | Kill Bill I 14. Why Does Tarantino Pursue the Pleasure of Violence While Constantly Limiting It? | Kill Bill II 15. Revenge and Naming: Do I Need You to Define Who I Was Born to Be? | Kill Bill III 16. Why Tarantino’s Films Are Filled with the Shadows of Other Movies | Kill Bill IV 17. Is Calling Hirokazu Kore-eda a ‘Contemporary Ozu’ the Greatest Misreading of Him? | Nobody Knows I 18. Why Can’t a Mother Who Abandons Her Children Be Reduced to a ‘Villain’? | Nobody Knows II 19. We Know What They Went Through, Yet We Still Cannot Truly Understand | Nobody Knows III 20. When Tenderness and Calculation Coexist, Is This Love Still Real? | Nobody Knows IV