Arguably Greenaway’s most controversial work about food and sex, this cult arthouse sensation pushed cinematography and visual style to a whole new ascetic level, as the wife of an ultra-obnoxious restaurateur cheats on him.
A married Korean man finds himself staying in Paris in Hong’s thought-provoking and layered work about the inherent affinities and contradictions of living a present life to one’s desire, as he gets caught up in an incompatible romance with a younger woman.
Welles’ butchered studio film remains a remarkable showcase of his storytelling prowess, one that is haunted by deep regrets and vicious jealousies, as an aristocratic family faces inevitable decline in a modernising world.
This Berlinale Golden Bear winner is one of the best films of 2025, exploring how a teenage girl’s crush on her teacher sparks questions about literary catharsis and ownership of private feelings, as she mulls over publishing her sacred experiences of ‘love’.
Denis’ somewhat maligned slow-burn thriller still gives morbid pleasures if you find vampirism in everyday settings fascinating, as her exploitation-esque work explores the insatiable lust for sex and blood.
This will be a continuing, if infrequent, log of my journey in recovering from an acute stroke.
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Enyedi’s dreamlike debut feature has a fabulist tone, though its thematic exploration of political and technological developments in modern human history never comes into full realisation, as the film charts the lives of a pair of orphaned twins who go their separate ways.
A filmmaking student doesn’t know herself except through the eyes of three men who have had an on-off intimate relationship with her, as Hong gives us a sly film bounded by the circularities and repetitions of plotting and dialogue.
Gus Van Sant’s MILK was my first LGBT film. Just three years earlier, in 2005-06, when Lee Ang’s BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN played in Singapore, I was too young to see. But that was the first time I heard about this topic.
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This is a powerful confrontation of the religious irony, corruption and injustice at play in the Dominican Republic, as a devout Evangelical Christian man returning home for his murdered father’s funeral must tolerate paganistic rituals and his family’s call for ‘moral’ revenge.
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