With a catalog of unforgettable roles, the Coen Brothers find depth and humor in banal modernity

Kar-Wai captures an impossible romance against the exquisite backdrop of an evolving Hong Kong

Love, heroin, and determinism in a life that imitates art

Paul Thomas Anderson’s beautiful and bizarre Phantom Thread tells the story of lovers unable to give and receive as equals in an unstable power dynamic

It’s hip to be square

Through clearly delineated fashion choices, Good Will Hunting creates a visual grammar that lays bare the tension between academic elites and the working-class of Boston

Following in the footsteps of actresses like Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, and Hepburn, Keaton’s costuming exemplifies shifting aesthetics in the wake of second-wave feminism

A film that evokes all the visual and narrative elements associated with Film Noir, while inverting its most definitive feature: the threat that femininity poses to masculinity

Influenced by the Mod movement of the 1960s (itself, a reaction to post-war, free love sentiments), the ‘Droogs’ iconic costume designs pay homage to fascist subculture

Jim Jarmusch’s ode to boredom in eternal life, high art, and Bohemia everlasting