Continue reading →Five uneven vignettes shot in different cities centering on conversations between cab drivers and passengers—this is Jarmusch in easy-going mode as he captures the pathos of human connection.
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All About My Mother (1999)
Continue reading →This is one of the highest peaks of Almodovar’s career, an exquisite work about women and grief, yet with his assured touch, it all seems so life-affirming and universal.
River, The (1951)
Continue reading →Renoir’s extraordinarily beautiful work, shot entirely in India in Technicolour, is a triumph of cross-cultural storytelling as it meditates on the ephemerality of life.
Julieta (2016)
Continue reading →A minor mystery-esque work by Almodovar, spellbinding and sensually-crafted at times, but marred by a weak denouement.
Broken Embraces (2009)
Continue reading →A respectable effort by Almodovar that balances melodrama with the mystery-thriller.
Volver (2006)
Continue reading →Almodovar handles with dexterity a range of emotions in this intriguingly-structured drama.
Farewell, The (2019)
Continue reading →Billed as one of the year’s best pictures, and quite rightly so, as the film’s mastery of its tragicomic tone and a solid ensemble cast combine to reach both tearjerking and comedic highs.
For Sama (2019)
Continue reading →As personal and harrowing a documentary can be, this powerful and heart-wrenching work captures a mother’s ‘video diary’ of the daily struggles in Aleppo, Syria, as the brutal 2016 siege by the Assad regime drew frighteningly near.
Jinpa (2018)
Continue reading →Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden explores karmic guilt and moral redemption in this slow but compelling arthouse work.
Hangover, The (2009)
This is highly-accomplished raunchy comedy filmmaking for the modern age, and no doubt one of the best films of 2009.
