Welles’ butchered studio film remains a remarkable showcase of his storytelling prowess, one that is haunted by deep regrets and vicious jealousies, as an aristocratic family faces inevitable decline in a modernising world.
This Berlinale Golden Bear winner is one of the best films of 2025, exploring how a teenage girl’s crush on her teacher sparks questions about literary catharsis and ownership of private feelings, as she mulls over publishing her sacred experiences of ‘love’.
Denis’ somewhat maligned slow-burn thriller still gives morbid pleasures if you find vampirism in everyday settings fascinating, as her exploitation-esque work explores the insatiable lust for sex and blood.
This will be a continuing, if infrequent, log of my journey in recovering from an acute stroke.
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Enyedi’s dreamlike debut feature has a fabulist tone, though its thematic exploration of political and technological developments in modern human history never comes into full realisation, as the film charts the lives of a pair of orphaned twins who go their separate ways.
A filmmaking student doesn’t know herself except through the eyes of three men who have had an on-off intimate relationship with her, as Hong gives us a sly film bounded by the circularities and repetitions of plotting and dialogue.
Gus Van Sant’s MILK was my first LGBT film. Just three years earlier, in 2005-06, when Lee Ang’s BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN played in Singapore, I was too young to see. But that was the first time I heard about this topic.
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This is a powerful confrontation of the religious irony, corruption and injustice at play in the Dominican Republic, as a devout Evangelical Christian man returning home for his murdered father’s funeral must tolerate paganistic rituals and his family’s call for ‘moral’ revenge.
Lang’s blueprint for the psychological procedural thriller remains significant in cinema history, as was his influential use of sound, rendering his ghastly subject—a serial killer of children—in poetic, paralegal light.
‘Exploring’ features the filmographies of filmmakers that I’ve largely completed and celebrates them on the week of their birthdays.
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