A feverish attempt at exploring the nature of wasted youth with strong visual and aural stylings that can’t quite hide its meandering narrative.
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Rumble Fish (1983)
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Category / Criterion Collection
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Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold (1964)
This sixth installment benefits from the wild, manic energy sustained by relatively new director Kazuo Ikehiro.
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Dead Man (1995)
A stylish revisionist anti-Western masterpiece by Jim Jarmusch that is both surreal, spiritual and poetic, backed by a stunning improvised ‘live’ score by Neil Young.
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State of Siege (1972)
Costa-Gavras sets his sights on Latin America in this superbly-constructed political-thriller that raises questions about the United States’ complicit involvement in counterinsurgency, torture and violence.
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Home and the World, The (1984)
Ray’s third adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore’s work late on in his career is a quietly-composed and deliberately-paced tale about the intertwining of domestic and national affairs.
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Au revoir les enfants (1987)
One of Malle’s finest works, this restrained drama builds up slowly, only to leave you emotionally shattered by the end of it.
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Zatoichi on the Road (1963)
It does feel overly-plotted, but this fifth ‘Zatoichi’ installment builds up to an all-out street gang war.
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One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977)
Varda’s beautiful work about the deep friendship between two French women trying to find meaning in their womanhood is fiercely feministic underneath its warm, understated filmmaking style.
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Chimes at Midnight (1966)
Arguably Orson Welles’ finest hour as a director and actor, this resurrected masterpiece remains to be one of cinema’s most extraordinary adaptations of Shakespeare.
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Trafic (1971)
This late career work by French comic master Jacques Tati has uncharacteristic pacing problems, though if you like automobiles, it is a charming snapshot of cars and trucks of the early 1970s.
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Eternality Tan 