escape from city life

His films poetically capture humanity's yearning to escape civilization and reconnect with nature's transcendence, from *Days of Heaven* to *The New World*.

He explores characters seeking refuge from urban alienation through intimate family retreats and simpler living in films like *After the Storm* and *Shoplifters*.

Her documentaries and narrative films celebrate wanderers and outsiders fleeing conventional society, most notably in *Vagabond* and her later road-movie essays.