A stunning achievement, Kon’s second feature-length anime is both a tribute to the history of Japanese cinema and the relentless pursuit of love to the ends of the world.
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Millennium Actress (2001)
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Author / Eternality Tan
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Klondike (2022)
A couple’s marriage slowly disintegrates as war draws closer in this measuredly-paced drama set in the context of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over separatist-controlled Eastern Ukraine.
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Beekeeper, The (1986)
The second film of Angelopoulos’ ‘Trilogy of Silence’ sees acting icon Marcello Mastroianni deliver a quiet, wrenching performance that is one of his very best.
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Prometheus (2012)
Ridley Scott sets expectations too high in this generally solid sci-fi epic let down by an unfocused screenplay and suspect pacing.
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Landscape in the Mist (1988)
Greek arthouse master Angelopoulos serves us one astonishing scene after another in this deliberately-paced elegiac road movie that also works as a powerful time capsule of late 1980s Greece.
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Hissein Habre, a Chadian Tragedy (2016)
An essential African documentary about the brutality of Habre’s regime as recalled by Chadian survivors seeking justice and closure from the unimaginable trauma that they continue to suffer decades after.
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Zodiac (2007)
Hard to deny that this is Fincher’s magnum opus—this extraordinary crime procedural based on the unsolved Zodiac killings of the late 1960s is surely one of the most chillingly suspenseful films from the 2000s decade.
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Bottle Rocket (1996)
Wes Anderson’s debut feature is so underrated it’s actually one of his best—a raw, humorous and amiable journey with a trio of young men hoping to pull off robberies for a living.
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Robe of Gems (2022)
The formal rigour of its aesthetics and its slow cinema approach are at times haunting, capturing the traces of presence, disappearance and trauma in Mexico’s crime-infested rural areas, though it ultimately feels like an elusive experience without any inkling of a plot to hold on to.
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Screaming Man, A (2010)
Winner of the Cannes Jury Prize, this Chadian film packs plenty of unsaid emotions of jealousy, guilt and remorse into a nuanced father-and-son story as armed separatists threaten the peace of their country in the background.
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