A vibey Moroccan music documentary about the popular group Nass-El Ghiwane that is a mix of invigorating performances, behind-the-scenes, and colonial history.
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Trances (1981)
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Category / Criterion Collection
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Black God, White Devil (1964)
A significant work of the Cinema Novo movement, one that dared to challenge the legitimacy of politics and religion as a poor farmer tries to seek salvation after killing his exploitative employer.
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One Wonderful Sunday (1947)
It does sometimes feel too stretched out with Kurosawa milking sentimentality out of its melancholy postwar drama, but the compelling characters take us somewhere meaningful as we ponder about what it means to be poor but in love.
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Revanche (2008)
An anti-thriller almost, in this assured film of two distinct halves about a vengeful criminal, an exploited prostitute, and a guilt-ridden policeman who all become implicated in life’s luck of the draw.
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Amores Perros (2000)
One of the most important works of Mexican cinema to emerge at the turn of the century, this is still Inarritu’s finest achievement as separate narrative threads collide (literally), sparking a thought-provoking treatise on life, love and loss.
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Blow-Up (1966)
Antonioni’s first English-language film sees him in peak form, delivering a countercultural classic that is a masterclass in exploring the art and enigma of seeing, creating and deconstructing images.
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Red Desert (1964)
Antonioni plays with colour and sound design, creating a hypnotic take on the perils of human alienation amid technological progress.
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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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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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Winter Light (1963)
A small-town priest must contend with the silence of God as he is overwhelmed with existential doubts in one of Bergman’s sparest works about the limits of religious faith.
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Eternality Tan 