Herzog’s take on the Count Dracula story may not offer any narrative surprises, but as a moody work of restrained horror marked by an oddly calm sense of foreboding, it exudes an earthier and organic feel.
With generous doses of horror and comedy, though with some way-too-sappy scenes of melodrama, this ‘zombies-on-a-train’ flick is no doubt a crowd-pleasing marker of Asian blockbuster success.
A wild, zany, and sometimes, indulgent meta-film in the hands of Kim Jee-woon, about a tormented filmmaker hoping to reshoot an alternate ending that won’t go down well with the authorities.
An unusually weaker stab by Morita in this mystery within a mystery, as his uneven and unnecessarily convoluted film about a murderer with a split personality explores the intersection between law and psychology.
Hong’s trademark stylistic minimalism and meditation on the meaning of art and life remain intact if nondescript, featuring two seemingly unrelated stories connected by a shared fondness for eating ramyeon with pepper paste.
Two strangers find a special bond through an online cinema forum’s email service in Morita’s progressively emotional take on what it means to connect with another human being in the wake of a lonelier, more technological world.
Kapadia’s sophomore feature expertly blends realism and poeticism as her filmmaking of sincerity and subtlety brings us into three Indian women’s perspectives and feelings as they contemplate their lives’ paths, which are uncertain yet paradoxically preordained.
One of the most iconic queer-themed documentaries of all time sees several trans women, drag queens and voguers reveal their passion and desire to be recognised like any other normal human being as they search for a queer utopia in New York’s Harlem.
Yang’s sweeping masterpiece and deeply affecting picture is one of the greatest films ever made, dissecting 1960s Taiwanese society through the eyes of its youths and street gangs in search of collective identity and individual meaning.
Baker’s Cannes hit promises a volatile, anxiety-fest of a cinematic experience, pumped up by Mikey Madison’s outstanding performance as a stripper who has a ‘fairytale marriage’ to the son of a Russian oligarch, though it doesn’t always work triumphantly in its latter half.
Eternality Tan 