This is feisty if sometimes way too melodramatic filmmaking from Chahine as he pits poor and frustrated peasants against the rising tide of self-serving capitalism.
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Land, The (1969)
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Author / Eternality Tan
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Guerilla Fighter, The (1973)
Sen channels the unorthodoxy of Godard in this fiercely political docufiction about a Marxist-leaning radical tasked to hide in a middle-class woman’s luxury apartment.
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Cat Returns, The (2002)
Fantasy encroaches into reality in this slight if charming little anime from Studio Ghibli that might just finally make non-feline lovers realise why cats are to be fussed about.
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Lost Highway (1997)
Largely critically-derided when first released, this violent and erotic nightmare gleefully explores male guilt and fantasy, one that now makes so much sense in Lynch’s terrorising world of weird-ass folks with weird-ass obsessions.
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Cairo Station (1958)
Chahine’s brisk and energetic work set in a railway station shows us characters who are forced to eke out a living, with the director himself brilliantly playing a psychologically unstable poor man who fantasises about being with the woman of his dreams.
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Phantom of Liberty, The (1974)
Bunuel’s absurdly fun penultimate feature seems to have been beamed directly from his unconscious—a provocative, taboo-smashing take on the idiocy of institutions and the irrational lunacy of human beings.
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Collective (2019)
This Oscar-nominated documentary pitting bold investigative journalism against dirty politics reveals how the state could be complicit in the killing of innocent citizens as this eye-opening exposé shows us the shocking depths of corruption in Romania’s beleaguered healthcare system.
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Heiresses, The (1980)
Isabelle Huppert plays a Jewish working-class woman who agrees to be secretly impregnated by her rich friend’s husband in order to help the couple conceive in this morally complex tale set in the backdrop of rising Nazism in the 1930s.
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Mourning Forest, The (2007)
There’s a certain indescribable sense of tranquility and ‘silence’ to this beautiful melancholic work that is as much about grief as it is about the end of mourning.
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No Time to Die (2021)
A rather bloated effort despite the generous and intense servings of action, this is a half-decent final outing for Daniel Craig’s Bond.
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