One of the best courtroom dramas ever shot, Preminger’s film may be lengthy but is tremendously engaging.
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One of the best courtroom dramas ever shot, Preminger’s film may be lengthy but is tremendously engaging.
This early Fassbinder is one of his most piercing works, exploring the consequence of domestic and professional stress through a series of highly-engaging conversational long takes.
Strong performances by Glenn Close and Mia Wasikowska help to elevate this heartfelt Oscar-baiting period film to something that is worth a watch.
The emotional struggles of a family torn apart by a major earthquake sets the melodramatic tone of this decades-spanning Chinese disaster epic.
A light-hearted adventure-comedy from the Golden Age of Hollywood with a predictable storyline but outstanding period production design.
Not exactly fully-developed, but interesting nonetheless – this is an animation about an apocalyptic world that is more suitable for teenagers than kids.
This war film shot in Cambodia and lensed by the great Raoul Coutard strongly emphasises on realism, but may feel slightly underwhelming.
Intercutting archival footage from state-controlled television with Brechtian style enactments, Radu Jude’s indictment of 1980s Communist Romania will test the patience of even the most hardened experimental-arthouse cineaste.
Varda’s beautiful work about the deep friendship between two French women trying to find meaning in their womanhood is fiercely feministic underneath its warm, understated filmmaking style.
Arguably Orson Welles’ finest hour as a director and actor, this resurrected masterpiece remains to be one of cinema’s most extraordinary adaptations of Shakespeare.