A Chinese conglomerate sets up shop in a vacant factory plant in Ohio, transforming livelihoods but also creating cultural and social tensions in this well-made if not particularly memorable Oscar-winning documentary.
While at times vacuous, this Cronenberg picture is still intellectually stimulating, and most certainly one for the arthouse crowd.
The pleasures of food and romance in cinema make an exquisite return with one of 2023’s most underappreciated gems, about a renowned chef and his long-serving cook in their autumnal years whom he one day hopes to marry.
Hausner’s bleak feature debut can be difficult to watch, adopting lo-fi aesthetics and conspicuously fast zoom-ins, as an outcast teenage girl tries to cope with the problems of family and school by seducing an older man and a younger boy.
A son films his dying father’s last performances on the piano in this elegiac final tribute to one of the most creative musical minds of the last 50 years.
Bogdanovich’s best-known work and one of New Hollywood’s most elegiac films, this is a deeply felt early ‘50s portrait of a dusty old Texan town fading away along with its downtrodden characters.
Something goes wrong in a student’s high-stakes history oral exam which sparks a national scandal in this measured Hungarian drama that sees the fateful collision of the personal and the political.
Akerman’s rarely-seen made-for-TV documentary about Pina Bausch is intimate, minimalist and soul-stirring as the famous choreographer goes on a European tour with her company of dancers.
A wonderful tribute and starting point to explore one of American silent cinema’s greatest exponents, judiciously put together by narrator-director Bogdanovich.
Occasionally too plotty and maximalist in style for its own good, but it is no doubt a stunning sequel with loads of sci-fi spectacle and intrigue.
Eternality Tan 