Via the New York Times: “…a severely obscure meditation on pre-revolutionary Russia in the form of an encounter between a ghost from the past and the ghost’s present-day guardian. In…

Faust inhabits an earthy, 19th-century world of primitive autopsies and medical rituals. He becomes obsessed with the beautiful Margarete and desperately turns to a physically grotesque moneylender to conjure their…

A French marquis wanders via a huge labyrinth of corridors, theatres and ballrooms in a reception to get a Persian ambassador.

Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of this world-renowned museum to a magisterial, centuries-spanning manifestation on the connection between culture, art and ability.