Watch Atlantics

A cowherd and a student dream of Paris on a motorbike with horns; Senegal's New Wave.

Poignant slave-trade island, UNESCO-listed.

Visit Dakar, the vibrant capital of Senegal on the Cape Verde Peninsula. Explore the African Renaissance Monument (a 49-meter bronze statue symbolizing Africa's rebirth), wander through the colorful markets of Sandaga (known for textiles and crafts), and visit the House of Slaves on Gorée Island (a UNESCO World Heritage site memorializing the transatlantic slave trade). Enjoy local dishes like thieboudienne (Senegal's national fish and rice dish) at a seaside restaurant.

A Senegalese woman as a maid on the Riviera; the first feature by a sub-Saharan director.

Patroclus and Achilles from boyhood to Troy; Miller's Orange Prize.

Goldman's "good parts version" of a book that never existed; Westley, Buttercup and Inigo.

Coppola's operatic, entirely in-camera vampire film.

Watch the movie Lost in Translation, a film about two Americans forming a connection in Tokyo