Backed by a sublime piano score by Ryuichi Sakamoto, this Murakami adaptation about an older man with chronic loneliness and his fashion-obsessed wife lulls viewers into a quiet trance.
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Tony Takitani (2004)
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Pyaasa (1957)
Dutt’s best-known work is a musical-drama with sweeping character arcs as a struggling poet is outcast and exploited by society, leading him into a downward spiral towards oblivion.
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Complete Unknown, A (2024)
Nothing special from a storytelling standpoint, but its tick-the-boxes sincerity gives this Bob Dylan biopic the necessary foundation for a trio of exceptional Oscar-nominated performances from Timothee Chalamet, Monica Barbaro and Edward Norton.
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Brutalist, The (2024)
Collaboration and exploitation are two sides of the same coin in this ambitious epic-cum-morality tale about the promise and rottenness of the American Dream, from the perspective of a Hungarian-Jewish architect who tries to build a life of dignity in the States.
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House (1977)
Works as a drinking game ‘midnight B-movie’ for cultists, this teenage-girls-visit-haunted-house psychedelic head trip entertains with its over-the-top and bewildering horror-comedy and creative special effects.
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Real Pain, A (2024)
Featuring an exceptional performance by Kieran Culkin, Eisenberg writes, produces, directs and stars in this unassuming comedy-drama that was shot primarily in Poland, about two incompatible Jewish cousins on a Holocaust tour to remember their late grandmother.
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Bound (1996)
This neo-noir thriller is a terrific feature debut by the Wachowskis, with its careening twists and turns, and upending of gender codes, as two women must work out a survival plan after an opportunistic ‘heist’ gone wrong.
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Fall, The (2006)
One of the most beautifully shot movies ever made, Tarsem Singh’s modern cult classic is an ‘elegiac epic’, an intertwining of two sets of narratives about the endless imagination and despair that the human mind can experience.
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Fruits of Passion (1981)
Far from the kind of erotica that masquerades as political art, Terayama’s largely uninteresting cult oddity featuring Klaus Kinski is an absurd tale of sadomasochism as a white man forces his mistress to become a prostitute to test her deep love for him.
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Small Hours of the Night (2024)
An interrogator and his subject are under the scrutiny of Hui’s camera as he dives into a murky part of Singapore’s legal history through a highly psychological mode that will interest adventurous cinephiles with a discerning taste for the avant-garde.
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Eternality Tan 