Wright’s over-the-top, parodic, buddy cop action-comedy is ‘pop’ confetti cinema in pleasing, anything-goes mode, as a police sergeant reassigned to a sleepy countryside town must contend with a spate of gruesome murders.
To some degree an anti-blockbuster par excellence, this much maligned sequel sees the infamous villain navigating a new and treacherous psychological terrain, packaged as an unorthodox if imaginative musical-cum-courtroom drama.
Far from the kind of erotica that masquerades as political art, Terayama’s largely uninteresting cult oddity featuring Klaus Kinski is an absurd tale of sadomasochism as a white man forces his mistress to become a prostitute to test her deep love for him.
Erice’s allegorical work puts you in a trance-like spell with its picturesque cinematography and disquieting mood setting as a child is haunted by James Whale’s ‘Frankenstein’ in 1940s rural Spain.
An interrogator and his subject are under the scrutiny of Hui’s camera as he dives into a murky part of Singapore’s legal history through a highly psychological mode that will interest adventurous cinephiles with a discerning taste for the avant-garde.
A dress rehearsal for what would come later, this captivating early effort may be thought of as Miyazaki’s ‘Dune’—a fantasy epic with warring nations, a mythic prophecy and giant insects that also operates as a potent call to prevent the mother of all ecological disasters.
The iconic duo return in another rollickingly amusing adventure as they must clear their name after being framed for crimes they didn’t commit, rendered in the tactile, almost corporeal stop-motion quality that Aardman has been reliably producing for decades.
This Swiss drama shares a similar spirit with the breezy films of ‘60s French New Wave as an exceptional Bulle Ogier plays an enigmatic woman who is the subject of two writers in this thought-provoking work about what it means to construct a person(a) through fact and fiction.
The gun of a high-ranking civil servant seems to have vanished in his home, as tensions heighten within his family (and outside in the streets of Tehran caused by the Mahsa Amini protests) in Rasoulof’s devastating but also galvanising work about the elusiveness of truth and the abuse of power.
Containing the hallmarks of great sci-fi fantasy movies, this enthralling but underseen animation from the ‘Fantastic Planet’ director, with art stylings from Mœbius, gives us intergalactic, mind-bending travel, as an urgent rescue crew attempts to reach a boy stranded on a hostile planet.
