My favourite feature debut from the French New Wave—an extraordinary meditation on trauma, memory and love as Resnais merges the historical, geographical and the personal in an intelligent and sensuous way.
This 15th installment’s focus on drama and storytelling is noteworthy, building to one of the series’ finest action-packed climaxes.
Kurosawa’s final collab with Mifune yields a near masterpiece about humanity that is beautiful, poetic and enlightening.
Kurosawa’s underrated gem of a masterpiece that is both an emotionally tense domestic drama, and a hot and sweaty police procedural.
Even if you don’t give a hoot about the Olympics, this sensational Oscar-winning documentary about state-sanctioned sports doping in Russia is eye-opening and riveting.
Reichardt continues to show why she is a master in making films where nothing quite happens, yet there is so much going on beneath the surface in this slow-moving if poignant tale of friendship between two men.
Mattie Do’s third feature might feel convoluted at times, but it is conceptually a largely fascinating sci-fi horror drama that explores personal guilt and regrets across time.
Awards season is right up the corner – here are my predictions for the Golden Globes 2021:
WW: Will Win
DH: Dark Horse
Prediction Results: 9/14 (10/14 if including dark horses)
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Sexual politics and sociopolitics dovetail in Bunuel’s mesmerising final film, featuring two actresses taking turns to play the female lead.
A bold and stunning effort by Bunuel that explores with psychological depth both sexual repression and expression from the perspective of a sexy but frigid young woman.
