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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Seven Samurai (1954)
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Category / Criterion Collection
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Collectionneuse, La (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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Rashomon (1950)
The film that launched Japanese cinema into serious international reckoning, and quite simply one of Kurosawa’s very best.
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Stray Dog (1949)
A solid early work by Kurosawa in what is a clever cat-and-mouse chase that leads to an emotional climax.
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Le petit soldat (1963)
Banned for a short while in France, Godard’s second feature boldly and stylistically depicts the moral complexities of the Algerian war, throwing audiences at the time an early political curveball.
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Color of Pomegranates, The (1969)
As fascinating as it is arcane, this visually and aurally arresting work from Armenia defeats categorization, but is indescribably hypnotic.
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Police Story (1985)
Jackie Chan puts on a rare snarly front as a framed police officer out to clear his name in this terrific spectacle of death-defying stunts and goofy comedy, still regarded as one of his finest achievements.
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Drunken Angel (1948)
A fiery doctor and an ill gangster form a love-hate bond in Kurosawa’s striking first collab with Toshiro Mifune, a tale of changing times amid out-of-fashion masculine codes of honour.
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Chess of the Wind, The (1976)
This banned and long-lost Iranian debut feature, boosted by a stunning restoration, is a genuine eye-opener—subversive, progressive, and a formidable take on how power and greed are symptomatic of patriarchy and nobility.
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Eternality Tan 