This blog will discuss motion pictures I think are notable. As much as sculpture or painting, music, drama, or literature, films are an important — and in some cases, culture-altering — artistic phenomenon, and they to be appreciated and understood as a significant expression of human creativity and storytelling power. It has been said that, for better or worse, filmmakers are, as much as anyone, the molders and shapers of our attitudes and values, our hopes and our dreams. If so, it would be folly to not bring our profoundest powers of perception and analysis to what they produce.