Six dramatised end-of-WWII stories that bring us from Sicily to the Po Valley, the second part of Rossellini’s ‘War Trilogy’ shows us the emotions associated with the tragedy of war as well as the liberation from oppression.
Arguably Wong Kar Wai’s finest hour, the film is gorgeous yet restrained… like an alluring and yearning waltz.
One of Wong’s most straightforward films is arguably his most mature, about the intimate kinship between two men.
It may be difficult to connect emotionally, but this darker companion piece to ‘Chungking Express’ (1994) has all the hallmarks of Hong Kong’s premier visual stylist.
Prefiguring the likes of ‘Funny Games’ and ‘Cache’, Haneke’s second feature is a challenging and disturbing work on media violence and its psychological ramifications.
One of David Lean’s finest early works, this is a heartrending exploration of the joy and torment of an impossible love, as experienced giddily in a chance encounter by two strangers who are already married.
Wong’s influential international breakthrough is fascinating, sensual and carefree, and an essential Hong Kong classic from the ’90s.
Wong Kar-Wai became one of contemporary Chinese cinema’s most distinctive auteurs with this dreamy-romantic if fatalistic evocation of 1960s alienation and forlornness.
A terrific low-budget atmospheric horror film from the ‘60s that is genuinely frightening, backed by a disquieting organ score.
Wes Anderson’s quirky set-in-Japan dogs’ tale is breathtaking in its stop-motion animation detail, while accruing a rhythmic sense of movement and storytelling momentum from start to end.
