Continue reading →Kubrick’s understated and underrated costume-drama is, to me, his greatest accomplishment, and possibly the most beautiful period film ever made.
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Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
Continue reading →Kubrick’s dystopian masterpiece frustrates, angers, provokes, and ultimately floors you in ways unlike that of other great films.
Tel Aviv on Fire (2018)
This delightful award-winning Israeli film scores with its unique portrayal of Palestinian-Israeli tensions, one that is marked by dramatic pretence and cold humour.
Pain & Glory (2019)
Continue reading →Possibly Almodovar’s most personal film to date, this is a bittersweet ode to how cinema has changed his life and the burdens and regrets he still carries—through an alter ego as played by a sublime Antonio Banderas.
Matthias & Maxime (2019)
Continue reading →Dolan’s gift for melodramatic intensity slightly mellows here, but what comes out of it is a newfound sense of storytelling maturity.
Offside (2019) – Guest Review
Continue reading →The story of a female football team as they prepare for competition season told in a straightforward manner – without turgid narratives about femininity or victory.
Vai (2019)
Shot in long takes in eight parts by nine women filmmakers from the Pacific Islands, this is an illuminating and poetic take on the ‘spirit of existence’.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Continue reading →Kubrick’s most influential film still remains way ahead of its time and is arguably the greatest sci-fi film ever made.
Paths of Glory (1957)
Continue reading →One of the most potent anti-war films ever made… so powerful it makes your blood boil at how some humans can be so despicable.
Killing, The (1956)
Continue reading →Kubrick treats the crime-noir genre in a revolutionary non-linear storytelling way in what is one of the most effective American heist films ever made.
