Breezy, fun but also dark, Ozon’s non-linear gay romance doesn’t really cut deep, but mostly works because it knows how to have a good time.
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Summer of 85 (2020)
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Author / Eternality Tan
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Story from Chikamatsu, A (1954)
Mizoguchi’s superb late career form continues with this masterful period drama about strict social norms and gender roles, with themes of adultery and romantic passion giving it thematic complexity.
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Osaka Elegy (1936)
A young woman becomes her married boss’ mistress to help her debt-ridden father in this ‘30s classic from Mizoguchi that would pave way thematically for his later films about ‘fallen women’.
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Zatoichi and Chess Expert (1965)
There may not be much action, but this quite solid 12th instalment takes its time to give us well-developed characters in a narrative about strategic one-upmanship.
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Nainsukh (2010)
Contemporary Indian avant-garde cinema at its artistic peak, Dutta’s unclassifiable portrait of the famous eponymous 18th-century Indian painter is an astonishing poetic and sensorial experience that recalls the likes of Parajanov.
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Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
Notturno (2020)
Shot over three years in the Middle East, Rosi’s beautiful and graceful documentary pits the human desire for normalcy against the unending cycles of death and destruction.
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Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, A (2014)
It frequently feels like a self-admiring work intoxicated with its own style and mood, but this chic arthouse vampire indie, shot in the Persian language, offers a taste of honey amid the spillage of blood.
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Ugetsu (1953)
Mizoguchi’s magnum opus is one of the all-time greatest films ever made – a haunting tale of greed, lust and morality that is steeped in Eastern sensuality and supernatural mythology.
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Good Marriage, A (1982)
Rohmer’s second ‘Comedies & Proverbs’ film is one of his more straightforward affairs as it dissects with nuance why some people are obsessed with marriage, while others are simply disinterested.
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