Zatoichi’s caught in between nasty gangsters and ungrateful villagers in this 14th entry that boasts great action but little in a way of a substantial story.
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Zatoichi’s Pilgrimage (1966)
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Category / Criterion Collection
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Weekend (1967)
Godard’s anarchic work of gleeful nihilism is not just a challenging treatise on the corruption and destruction of bourgeois values, but one of his most essential films about the end of civility and civilisation.
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And Life Goes On (1992)
Extraordinary docu-fictive filmmaking by Kiarostami as the second part of his ‘Koker’ trilogy brings us to the aftermath of the devastating 1990 Manjil-Rudbar earthquake via a skillfully deceptive meta-cinematic device.
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Zatoichi’s Vengeance (1966)
Zatoichi’s use of violence to right wrongs is called into question in this well-made 13th installment.
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Germany Year Zero (1948)
The third film of Rossellini’s heartbreaking neorealist ‘War’ trilogy tackles postwar Germany through the eyes of a boy suffering from material and moral poverty.
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Flowers of St. Francis, The (1950)
Rossellini’s work here is masterful, shot in a neorealist if also painterly style, that captures the purity and spirituality of ascetic Roman Catholicism in the early 13th century.
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Rome Open City (1945)
Rossellini’s breakthrough film is not just a defining work of Italian neorealism, but a powerful anti-war statement.
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Contempt (1963)
Emotions run deep in Godard’s masterwork as it charts the deterioration of a couple’s marriage whilst set against the chronic uncertainties of a movie production.
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Certain Women (2016)
A triptych of stories of ordinary women in Montana, whose vulnerabilities and desires are given the quiet Kelly Reichardt touch in this slow and contemplative work.
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Cul-de-sac (1966)
Polanski’s Golden Berlin Bear winner traverses the territory of absurdist cinema in what is a sporadically engaging but sharp commentary on power plays associated with psychological sadism and the gender and classist pressures to conform.
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Eternality Tan 