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.
Dutta plays with spaces as past, sounds as future, and time as the bridge between both, in this gorgeously shot, if somewhat meandering, sci-fi tale about two travellers in search of a flying craft created by a mad engineer from childhood.
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.
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.
