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.
This early work by the Egyptian master introduces us to the indelible Omar Sharif whose character gets caught up in a severe case of injustice as the wealthy exploits the poor in a rural village.
Bunuel’s first film in colour was his closest flirtation with a Hollywood style of filmmaking, effortlessly adapting the famous story of a shipwrecked man who must live solitarily on an unknown island for an unknown number of years.
Kurosawa’s magnum opus is a glorious triumph and the standard-bearer for bravura epic filmmaking, still yet to be surpassed.
Mizoguchi’s superb late career form continues with this masterful period drama about strict social norms and gender roles, with themes of adultery and romantic passion giving it thematic complexity.
My personal favourite of all of Hitchcock’s works, this intelligent and suspenseful treatment on scopophilia and scopophobia in relation to gender, gaze theory and paranoia is also one of his finest achievements.
This early work by Fellini is truly one of his finest efforts, told in a fabulist style and with great emotional honesty.
Eternality Tan 