The Mexican auteur’s debut feels like the work of a veteran, a tour de force exploration of mortality and desires as nature, sexuality and the spiritual commingle in a tale about a man hoping to commit suicide in a remote canyon.
A milestone in revolutionary Latin American cinema, this dialectical Cuban docu-fiction explores the class-crossing romance between a schoolteacher and a factory worker with a vigorous ethnographic and political thrust.
One of Cronenberg’s very best films, this is a peak culmination of his body horror exploits with a rare emotional and human core to its storytelling.
Bergman’s first documentary provides a rather brief but still insightful look at the residents (farmer, schoolteacher, newly married couple, and more) of the isolated Fårö Island, poetically shot by longtime collaborator Sven Nykvist.
As per tradition, here are my predictions for the Oscars 2024!
WW: Will Win
DH: Dark Horse
Prediction Results: 19/23 (23/23 if including dark horses)
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Carruth’s sophomore feature possesses a Nolan-meets-Malick vibe, done in an impressionistic indie style, as an inscrutable sci-fi romance plays out across time, memories and bodies.
A sci-fi body horror movie that stands out in Cronenberg’s ‘80s oeuvre for its special effects and just-as-relevant-today commentary on our obsession with the screen.
More deliberately paced than expected, Haynes’ tabloid-ish melodrama doesn’t quite land that well narratively or emotionally, though it features strong performances throughout.
Perverse and provocative yet bland and uneven, Ostlund’s low-fi debut feature is at best a curiosity, a Roy Andersson-meets-Ulrich Seidl series of docu-fictive vignettes.
Two young brothers hope to visit their estranged father who lives far away as this beautiful Tajik drama takes them on a picturesque train journey across the rural landscape of little villages and hills.
Eternality Tan 