Sign Language

By: Mugino

As a fledgling writer, “show, don’t tell” is a credo that I’ve long struggled to master. After all, working in a medium of words (and deadlines) makes it so convenient and tempting to take shortcuts through exposition. However, film is blessed with a visual channel of information, allowing moments of indescribable significance to unfold and express themselves without words. The following films possess such moments in which pivotal actions and choices unmask people, exposing them more than anything they could possibly say.

• 01
  Morvern Callar
  Lynne Ramsay
• 02
  Julia
  Erick Zonca
• 03
  Womb
  Benedek Fliegauf
• 04
  Everlasting Moments
  Jan Troell
• 05
  In My Skin
  Marina de Van
• 06
  Cure
  Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• 07
  I Am Love
  Luca Guadagnino
• 08
  Eat Drink Man Woman
  Ang Lee
• 09
  Wendy and Lucy
  Kelly Reichardt
• 10
  The Lives of Others
  Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
• 11
  Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
  Jill Sprecher
• 12
  Mulholland Drive
  David Lynch
• 13
  Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
  François Girard
• 14
  The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
  Tommy Lee Jones
• 15
  Miami Blues
  George Armitage