The 75 Best Movies of the 2010s Decade The decade of the 2010s was a wild cinematic ride, taking me on a coming-of-age journey unlike any other. It all began with a…
Tag: Aleksei German
Aleksei Yuryevich German (1938-2013) was considered by many as the equal of Andrei Tarkovsky, the auteur oft bedecked with the title, ‘best Russian film-maker’. Although both these great directors were stifled by…
The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to watch a movie. Some of the greatest films in cinematic history owe their greatness to presence of rain. Rain in cinema is often said to be symbol of nostalgia, solitude, chaos, love, rejection, death, decay and so on. But are not some things just simply what they are and nothing more? In the end, rain is just rain, water returning to its origin. The following list doesn’t feature movies with heavy rain, nor is it about movies in which rain is a central character. They’re just movies I think about, when I think about rain. All films listed here are ranked in chronological order.