A more wistful film than usual by Anderson, who is back in fine form as we enter the world of a fictional play populated by a range of eccentric characters.
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Asteroid City (2023)
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Author / Eternality Tan
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Models (1999)
Gritty, downbeat and cynical, Seidl’s provocative first fiction feature uses the camera like a privacy-intruding one-way mirror as it observes several women and their exploits with cheap modelling, perverted men and toxic relationships.
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All About Eve (1950)
Mankiewicz’s enduring classic about the glamour of showbiz, warts and all, marked by loyal friendships and diabolical schemes, remains one of the wittiest and spriteliest of Classical Hollywood dramas.
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Duelle (1976)
Two celestial beings battle for a magical diamond in the underbelly of Paris in Rivette’s peculiar anti-fantasy, one that is drenched in a noir-ish atmosphere of shadowy interiors.
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Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022)
There’s 1960s nostalgia overload in Linklater’s third animated feature, which is a mostly engaging take on the cultural phenomena surrounding the 1969 Moon landing, told through one boy’s fantasy of becoming an astronaut.
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Daughters of the Dust (1991)
It’s hard to find a debut feature this dreamy and evocative, as Dash lends historical voice to her people—the generations of Gullahs who lived on the South Carolina Sea Islands as they endured slavery and faced a modernising 20th century.
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20,000 Species of Bees (2023)
A sensitively-drawn debut feature about a trans-child who must navigate burgeoning notions of gender identity amid confusing signals sent by her family, shot in a naturalistic style befitting the very nature of self-discovery.
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Oppenheimer (2023)
This could be Nolan’s greatest achievement so far—a stunning biopic imagined as a complex, time-ticking paranoia thriller as the sheer burden of scientific progress meets the retroactive traumatic weight of 20th-century history.
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Mekong Hotel (2012)
Perhaps too slight to really work at the level that the Thai auteur usually operates, but there are moments that invite us to ponder about the ephemeral nature of life as a trio of characters pass their time at a hotel by the river.
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Revenge (1990)
Visually stunning that is reminiscent of Kurosawa and Tarkovsky, this Kazakh New Wave film treats the theme of vengeance as a long-gestating circle of life and death, efficiently and poetically told in a series of chapters.
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