Cinema
Directors, films, and movements that echo, adapt, or extend the literary and philosophical traditions mapped elsewhere in the vault.
Directors
- Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986) — Russian poetic cinema; Dostoevsky and Orthodox religion at feature length
- Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) — Lutheran despair, Kierkegaard, the Double
- Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) — literary adaptation (Thackeray, Burgess, Nabokov), Nietzschean ambition
- Martin Scorsese (b. 1942) — Dostoevskian urban guilt, Catholic conscience
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) — Freudian suspense, the Look, the Double
- Akira Kurosawa (1910–1998) — Tolstoy, Shakespeare, Dostoevsky on screen
- Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941–1996) — applied Kantian ethics, the Decalogue
- David Lynch (1946–2025) — the Freudian unconscious as cinematic grammar
- Yorgos Lanthimos (b. 1973) — Greek Weird Wave; Kafka-meets-Swift absurdism as system design
- Denis Villeneuve (b. 1967) — Tarkovsky’s philosophical patience scaled to blockbuster budgets
Films
1950s
- Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950)
- Ikiru (Kurosawa, 1952)
- Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
- The Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1957)
- Wild Strawberries (Bergman, 1957)
- Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
1960s
- Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
- Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky, 1966)
- Persona (Bergman, 1966)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
1970s
- A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)
- Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972)
- Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1975)
- Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975)
- Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
- Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979)
2010s
- The Lobster (Lanthimos, 2015) — romantic coupledom as totalitarian procedure; the psychological bunker
2020s
- Dune (Villeneuve, 2021) + Dune: Part Two (Villeneuve, 2024) — anti-messianic philosophical epic; colonialism, ecology, prescience
2020s — Television
- Silo (Yost, Apple TV+, 2023–) — bunker dystopia, adapted from Hugh Howey’s Wool / Shift / Dust
- Fallout (Nolan/Joy/Wagner/Robertson-Dworet, Amazon, 2024–) — corporate post-apocalypse; the parallel bunker series
Movements
- New Hollywood (1967–1980)
- Russian Poetic Cinema (1960s–80s)
- Swedish Art Cinema (1950s–70s)
- Japanese Golden Age (1950s)