Not Bunuel at his finest, but he takes down the upper-classes in the kind of sharp comic absurdity that he is known for.
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Exterminating Angel, The (1962)
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Category / Criterion Collection
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Sanjuro (1962)
A lighter if lesser effort by Kurosawa, but it is no less entertaining and darkly comic than its companion piece ‘Yojimbo’ (1961).
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Throne of Blood (1957)
Kurosawa’s Noh-influenced take on ‘Macbeth’ is elemental, engrossing and one of the greatest screen adaptations of Shakespeare.
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Orpheus (1950)
Magical yet haunting, Cocteau’s reimagining of the Orpheus myth in France during the Beatnik 1950s is a cinephile’s treat.
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Claire’s Knee (1970)
Arguably Rohmer’s most iconic ‘moral tale’—the plot of an older man’s fetish for a teenage girl’s bare knee makes for great philosophical musings about the nature of lust and love.
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River Called Titas, A (1973)
Now canonized by The Criterion Collection, Ghatak’s beloved tragedy about the poor fishing villages on the banks of the river Titas is meandering to a fault, but is imaginative and poetic.
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I Live in Fear (1955)
One of Kurosawa’s lesser urban dramas that deals with the trauma and anxiety of nuclear annihilation through the eyes of a paranoid old patriarch.
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Seven Samurai (1954)
Kurosawa’s magnum opus is a glorious triumph and the standard-bearer for bravura epic filmmaking, still yet to be surpassed.
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La collectionneuse (1967)
Lust and personal resolve collide in Rohmer’s first feature in colour, lensed with warmth and sensuality by Days of Heaven’s Nestor Almendros.
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Dheepan (2015)
This Cannes Palme d’Or winner is a masterful, humanistic attempt at capturing the issue of immigrants, through the perspective of a ‘family’ of Tamils at a transitory point in their lives.
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