A ‘Before Sunrise’-esque gay drama shot with natural realism that brings genuine emotions of honesty, desire and affection to the fore.
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Weekend (2011)
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Category / Criterion Collection
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Tales of Hoffmann, The (1951)
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.
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Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
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.
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Secret Sunshine (2007)
Lee Chang-dong deeply explores the intertwining nature of love, loss and religious faith, backed by an emotionally intense performance by Jeon Do-yeon.
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Ariel (1988)
Dreary yet comforting and a brilliant example of how to tell a story with poetic economy, this is a near-perfect work by Kaurismaki about a miner who loses his job but inadvertently encounters a parking attendant whom he falls in love with in the drollest possible way.
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Notte, La (1961)
Words have little meaning but faces bear the truth in Antonioni’s remarkable treatise on modern alienation and ennui as it follows a well-to-do couple facing a sinking marriage on an afternoon and night out.
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Age of Innocence, The (1993)
Scorsese’s criminally ignored work based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is exquisite and expressive, as the psychological violence of complicated romances and illicit affairs threaten to implode in the cloistered high society of New York’s ‘Gilded Age’.
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Five Easy Pieces (1970)
The film that solidified Jack Nicholson as a leading star as this New Hollywood classic about alienation follows an empty shell of a man who decides to visit his estranged ailing father while trapped in a loveless relationship with his girlfriend.
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Last Picture Show, The (1971)
Bogdanovich’s best-known work and one of New Hollywood’s most elegiac films, this is a deeply felt early ‘50s portrait of a dusty old Texan town fading away along with its downtrodden characters.
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Japon (2002)
The Mexican auteur’s debut feels like the work of a veteran, a tour de force exploration of mortality and desires as nature, sexuality and the spiritual commingle in a tale about a man hoping to commit suicide in a remote canyon.
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Eternality Tan 