Restraint, ritual, and everything left unsaid.
Visconti, and the greatest ballroom sequence in cinema
shot by candlelight with NASA lenses
the Merchant Ivory standard
the sharpest costume drama of its era
Zhang and Gong Li, formally exact
Merchant Ivory's peak
Scorsese's most violent film, without a drop of blood
restraint as the entire subject
the Austen adaptation standard
the costume drama with a knife in it
Best Picture, an Oscar controversy, and genuinely rewatched
booed at Cannes, since fully vindicated
the Dunkirk tracking shot
Ang Lee's most adult
Lanthimos gone mainstream without softening
Zhao and Buckley, the year's most emotional film
