The Korean immigrant experience in America, portrayed with intimacy and tenderness, and featuring two discoveries of the year— the promising child actor Alan Kim and Emile Mosseri’s ethereal score.
Outstanding feature debut by David Lynch, this is as nightmarish and surreal as they come.
Among the masterpieces of Kurosawa, this one sits confidently at the very, very top, and is quite rightly one of the greatest films ever made of all-time.
Perhaps unfairly regarded as a minor Ghibli, there’s something deeply charming about its portrayal of teenage infatuation and matters of the heart that are set against the context of high school life.
This Venice Golden Lion winner is an affecting film of elemental beauty, with a performance from Frances McDormand that is as natural as its cinematography, about folks living in vans in the American West.
Gorgeous visuals and extraordinary sound design as expected from avant-garde filmmaker Amit Dutta, but it’s more meandering than usual despite the unusual sci-fi concept.
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 masterwork is both an emotionally tense domestic drama, and a hot and sweaty police procedural.
Eternality Tan 