Youth labour in textile factories in China’s Zhejiang province is the central focus of Wang Bing’s social realist documentary that shows us what it’s like to be toiling away to make ends meet.
Suzuki’s dynamic if provocative work here tells of the sexual politics of flesh and humiliation, set in postwar Japan under American control.
Wenders’ new film sees him return to Japan for a contemplative take on the human experience in modern society, following the daily routine of a cultured toilet cleaner who is obsessed with collecting cassette tapes of American oldies.
A triple-crossing crime actioner from master studio craftsman Suzuki that sharpened the critical focus on his thrilling devil-may-care filmmaking style.
In this astonishing meta-fiction, Radu Jude continues his refreshing streak of scathingly hilarious, politically-charged social dramas as an underpaid production assistant works overtime on a commissioned safety video.
Zulawski’s infamous cult horror about a couple’s disintegrating marriage is as deranged a film as any, featuring a terrifying performance for the ages by Cannes Best Actress winner Isabelle Adjani.
Scorsese’s scathing work about the exploitation of the Osage tribe in the 1920s by conniving White men is both intimate and expansive at the same time, and so well-paced that it makes 3½ hours feel like only two.
A stunning ‘ethnographic’ work by Imamura about the age-old clash between ritualistic tradition and disruptive modernity as a Tokyo engineer visits an isolated island in order to develop it, only to find a superstitious, and even, incestuous, family dictating the law of the land.
Skolimowski goes into Nicolas Roeg territory in this idyllic English countryside drama that turns into inexplicable psychological terror when a couple is disrupted by the presence of a mysterious man who knows Aboriginal magic.
A professor and his vagabond colleague become acutely aware of their lust, mortality and bad dreams in this intriguing ghostly tale from Suzuki that is somewhat bogged down by its protracted runtime.
