We follow a young schoolboy’s a-day-in-the-life journey in Kiarostami’s simple yet resonating breakthrough film.
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Where Is the Friend’s House? (1987)
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Author / Eternality Tan
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Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
Elizabeth Olsen delivers a first-rate performance in this restrained tale about trauma and paranoia.
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I, Daniel Blake (2016)
A tremendously urgent social realist work with a strong emotional core, blessed by Loach’s unadulterated approach to simplicity.
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Land and Freedom (1995)
Loach tackles the Spanish Civil War with aplomb in this unique war film that is not about war itself but the battle of ideals and minds.
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Kes (1970)
Arguably Ken Loach’s masterpiece of 1970s British working-class social realism, with an absolutely stunning performance by the 14-year old non-professional actor David Bradley.
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Monsters University (2013)
Not a Mike & Sulley star vehicle, but it comes close to capturing the magic of Pixar’s most fun-ness of endeavours.
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Happy Old Year (2020)
An easy-going Thai movie about the need to let go of the past that gets the balance between comedy and serious drama just about right.
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Musings #3: A Teacup in a Storm: Polanski & the Cesar Awards
This is a brief personal opinion piece about the stormy controversy over Roman Polanski’s Best Director win at the Cesar Awards for his film, AN OFFICER AND A SPY (2019).
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Andrei Rublev (1966)
Tarkovsky’s vignette-style medieval epic is possibly the greatest ideological film about a psychologically-conflicted artist trying to understand the epoch he lives in.
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Two Popes, The (2019)
You’ll be surprised that two religious old men chatting about their struggles with faith and their pasts can be so engrossing in Fernando Meirelles’ breezy drama.
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