Wenders’ new film sees him return to Japan for a contemplative take on the human experience in modern society, following the daily routine of a cultured toilet cleaner who is obsessed with collecting cassette tapes of American oldies.
A triple-crossing crime actioner from master studio craftsman Suzuki that sharpened the critical focus on his thrilling devil-may-care filmmaking style.
Skolimowski goes into Nicolas Roeg territory in this idyllic English countryside drama that turns into inexplicable psychological terror when a couple is disrupted by the presence of a mysterious man who knows Aboriginal magic.
A popular singer anxiously waits for her medical test results in this charming yet reflective drama that remains one of Varda’s best-known works from the French New Wave era.
An extraordinary silent feature from Brazil set to a playlist of classical music, so unique, enigmatic and dreamlike that it still carves out new, profound possibilities for cinema.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Eternality Tan 