City Symphony Primer: 3 Essential Films to Watch Now

Written by Daniel Walber

Is poetry fiction or nonfiction? The best answer is probably “neither.” Yet we spend a lot of time pretending that such a clear distinction exists for cinema, despite the fact that it is, in essence, the poetry of motion. Sure, a script can be fictional or nonfictional, but can an image? The high flying weightlessness of Gravity and the woozy, tempests …