One of the holy grails of world cinema, there is an elusive, mythic halo cast over Erice’s ‘incomplete’ film, a memory piece about a daughter’s melancholy reflection of her secretive father during her post-Spanish Civil War days of childhood.
Godard’s work goes right into the heart of French youths at odds with politics and sex, locating the mounting angst and ennui as he imbues his freewheeling drama with a serious ‘documentary’ disposition.
Still the most internationally successful Czechoslovak film of all time, Zeman’s work is a brilliant mix of live-action, animation and special effects as a kidnapped scientist naively creates a super-bomb for an evil millionaire.
Risi elevates the Italian comedy to stratospheric heights in this absolute classic of a buddy road movie with two exceptional performances from Vittorio Gassman and Jean-Louis Trintignant, as it deals with themes of freedom, hedonism and consequences.
Maldoror’s only completed narrative feature about a woman trying to locate her imprisoned husband is a work of Angolan solidarity, made at a time when a war of independence was waged against their Portuguese oppressors.
An epic of intimate, heart-wrenching moments as Kinoshita’s incredibly moving anti-war film centers on a teacher newly posted to a class of first-graders in a poor Japanese seaside village during the late 1920s.
A ‘Before Sunrise’-esque gay drama shot with natural realism that brings genuine emotions of honesty, desire and affection to the fore.
Reductively thought of as a ‘filmed opera’, Powell and Pressburger’s still underappreciated work of marvellous artifice and performative artistry tells of three tales of a poet who has no luck with the women he falls in love with.
Truffaut’s overlooked sophomore feature, a playful crime-noir, is shot with a rare, improvisational style, about a bit-part piano player who unexpectedly gets embroiled with lowly if persistent gangsters.
Lee Chang-dong deeply explores the intertwining nature of love, loss and religious faith, backed by an emotionally intense performance by Jeon Do-yeon.
Eternality Tan 