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.
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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”.
Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)
Continue reading →One of the most intricate of screenplays ever written in recent years paired with an extraordinary performance by Adele Exarchopoulos places this powerful yet sensitive drama in a class of its own.
Ballad of Buster Scruggs, The (2018)
Continue reading →Seeing the freedom the Coens had in making this omnibus of Western ‘shorts’ is delightful, though it is a minor work with inherent unevenness.
Ex Machina (2015)
Continue reading →Alex Garland’s directorial debut is arguably the year’s most thought-provoking science-fiction film – polished, compelling and intelligent.
I Am Love (2009)
Continue reading →Elegantly-directed with a visual style that is sumptuous, this is a work by a promising filmmaker.
