Ann Hui’s horror-comedy is at best an odd curiosity, a way too convoluted genre exercise that still manages to flaunt its film language, as Shu Qi plays a woman who can see ghosts.
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Visible Secret (2001)
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Author / Eternality Tan
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Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (2024)
One of 2024’s absolute gems, this rapturous, stunningly-edited Sundance award-winning documentary sets the GOATs of American jazz against the tumultuous political history of Congo’s struggle for independence during the decolonisation phase of the Cold War.
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Burning (2018)
An enigmatic mystery that patiently develops and then becomes deeply entwined within its ambiguities, in what is another hypnotic gem by South Korea’s finest working filmmaker.
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Showing Up (2022)
With characteristic deliberate pacing and being deeply tuned to the subtle rhythms of daily existence, Reichardt explores giving life its tangible meaning through art-making, where we create and present for ourselves and others.
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Chunhyang (2000)
A film that flaunts its Korean-ness, from the classic tale of a governor’s son who secretly marries a courtesan’s daughter, to the use of pansori (traditional musical storytelling with a singer and drummer), all pegged to the effortless pacing of a master director.
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Inside Out 2 (2024)
This enjoyable and boisterous sequel to one of Pixar’s high watermarks pits its protagonist against the onset of puberty as the appearance of more emotions creates havoc and a crisis of sense of self.
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Tales of Hoffmann, The (1951)
Reductively thought of as a ‘filmed opera’, Powell and Pressburger’s still underappreciated work of marvellous artifice and performative artistry tells of three tales of a poet who has no luck with the women he falls in love with.
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Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
Truffaut’s overlooked sophomore feature, a playful crime-noir, is shot with a rare, improvisational style, about a bit-part piano player who unexpectedly gets embroiled with lowly if persistent gangsters.
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Harmonica (1974)
Naderi’s early social realist work is raw and boisterous, as a boy is handed an innocuous musical instrument that becomes a tool of power and exploitation towards his gang of village friends.
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Memories of a Burning Body (2024)
A delicate and imaginative work as three female voices share the ‘composite’ body of an elderly woman who must confront her traumatic past to liberate herself for one last hurrah at an optimistic future.
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