In "Mon Oncle," Jacques Tati's inventive comedy, the main target is the depersonalization of modern life–not so much the mechanization that Charlie Chaplin satirized in "Modern Times" (1936), as the sterile and tasteless tedium that modern life has produced.

In the second year of the Best Foreign-Language Oscar category, the winner was Fellini’s masterpiece “The Nights of Cabiria” from Italy.

Looking Back: “La Strada” (“The Road”), the winner of the first foreign-language Oscar, marks Fellini’s break with the strictures of neo-realism.  In this haunting story of a simple-minded peasant girl who is sold to a brutal circus strongman, Fellini created his first allegory, or spiritual fable.

Benedict Cumberbatch’s Stephen Strange, Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch and Benedict Wong’s Sorcerer Supreme enter the multiverse in the first teaser.

I had read it about eight years ago and found some resonance with motifs I had dealt with in my films: conversations in cars, performances.