Continue reading →Mann’s debut feature is a slick and assured crime-thriller that would bear the hallmarks of some of his finest works.
Author / Eternality Tan
Mountains May Depart (2015)
Continue reading →Jia Zhangke returns to form in this superior drama about the ties that bind us together, even if we scatter like fireworks.
Touch of Sin, A (2013)
Continue reading →A sprawling and inconsistently-paced effort with multiple stories and unrelated characters whose sum is lesser than its parts.
First Name: Carmen (1983)
Continue reading →Godard’s Venice Golden Lion winner doesn’t quite work narratively, but its fragmentary melding of music, sound design and images is an interesting experiment.
Pierrot le fou (1965)
Continue reading →It’s an inventive, original piece, but also a pretentious mess that struggles to sustain in what could be one of Godard’s most overrated films in his prolific first decade as a non-conforming artist.
Band of Outsiders (1964)
Continue reading →Stylish and radical, this free-wheeling Godard film is entertaining and impossibly cool.
Vivre sa vie (1962)
Continue reading →Twelve uneven vignettes form Godard’s loosely-structured tale of a woman’s descent into prostitution, made with the creative spirit of some of his best works.
Secret of the Grain, The (2007)
Continue reading →A staggering masterwork about an extended Arab family living in France—their intimate lives, their buzzing families, the wonderful food, and their hopes and struggles.
Annihilation (2018)
Continue reading →A different kind of measured, mainstream sci-fi that is almost like its thematic preoccupation—that of mutability where there is just enough change to enthrall and thrills to excite.
Breathless (1960)
Continue reading →Perhaps the most canonical of French New Wave movies other than Truffaut’s “The 400 Blows”.
