Shot in solemn black-and-white, Hong’s elegiac, non-linear reflection on infidelity, regret and emotional burden sees a condemned man trying to move on from his extramarital affair.
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Day After, The (2017)
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Pulse (2001)
Friends commit suicide or disappear in this eerie, prophetic J-Horror essential as Kurosawa shows how the web would exacerbate collective angst and loneliness as ghosts are stuck in liminal spaces between the afterlife and reality, mediated by the digital screen.
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Woman on the Beach (2006)
A contemplative exploration of neediness and the transient nature of human connection, Hong’s drama about creative paralysis sees a film director having a fling with his friend’s girlfriend, sparking psychological clarity.
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Beasts, The (2022)
A French organic farming couple doesn’t want to sell their land to a wind turbine eco-company, incurring the wrath of the Spanish locals, as Sorogoyen’s slow-burning thriller reveals the psychological pressures of intimidation and violence.
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Walker (1987)
Cox’s astonishing genre-bending masterpiece satirically and anachronistically lays bare the dark shadow of American imperialism across time, shot in Nicaragua during the Contra War, and featuring Ed Harris as 19th-century mercenary leader William Walker.
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Afternoons of Solitude (2024)
Serra’s unflinching, observational documentary plants its camera with sniper-like focus on the bloody ritual of bullfighting, as static long takes and dynamic close-ups capture a lonely matador risking his life, afternoon after afternoon, to end another.
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Musings #10: Merci, The Projector (2014-2025)
19 Aug 2025 was a very, very dark day for cinephiles, filmmakers, artists, cultural changemakers, and so many more communities living in Singapore.
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Times of Harvey Milk, The (1984)
Despite its lack of style and the textbook-esque approach to conventional documentary filmmaking, this is quite rightly one of the finest of its kind—a galvanising and sensitive work on the LGBTQ legacy of Harvey Milk and his tragic assassination.
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Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, The (1989)
Arguably Greenaway’s most controversial work about food and sex, this cult arthouse sensation pushed cinematography and visual style to a whole new ascetic level, as the wife of an ultra-obnoxious restaurateur cheats on him.
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Night and Day (2008)
A married Korean man finds himself staying in Paris in Hong’s thought-provoking and layered work about the inherent affinities and contradictions of living a present life to one’s desire, as he gets caught up in an incompatible romance with a younger woman.
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