Continue reading →Varda leaves us with a final masterclass to savour, lovingly made in the documentary form that she so adored.
Category / Criterion Collection
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Continue reading →Kubrick’s final film is a calculated psychosexual trip filled with paranoia, moral depravity and sexual fantasies and excesses.
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Continue reading →Kubrick’s understated and underrated costume-drama is, to me, his greatest accomplishment, and possibly the most beautiful period film ever made.
Paths of Glory (1957)
Continue reading →One of the most potent anti-war films ever made… so powerful it makes your blood boil at how some humans can be so despicable.
Killing, The (1956)
Continue reading →Kubrick treats the crime-noir genre in a revolutionary non-linear storytelling way in what is one of the most effective American heist films ever made.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
Continue reading →The film that launched Almodovar internationally as an auteur is a tragicomic screwball farce whose effortless execution is as impressive as it is sublime.
Creatures, The (1966)
Continue reading →Varda’s work here is under-appreciated—a layered and surreal collision of imaginary and abstract ideas about a writer’s creative process, and one might even say a tonal antecedent to the modern pictures of Yorgos Lanthimos.
Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976)
Continue reading →Religion and politics collide in frightening ways in this based-on-a-true-story ‘docu-drama’ that ranks as one of Mexican cinema’s greatest films.
Night on Earth (1991)
Continue reading →Five uneven vignettes shot in different cities centering on conversations between cab drivers and passengers—this is Jarmusch in easy-going mode as he captures the pathos of human connection.
All About My Mother (1999)
Continue reading →This is one of the highest peaks of Almodovar’s career, an exquisite work about women and grief, yet with his assured touch, it all seems so life-affirming and universal.
Eternality Tan 