Light-hearted and mildly amusing, Ozu’s most accessible late-career work explores the generation gap and quirks of communal communication amid a rise in consumerism in a modernising Japan.
Bresson’s work throws genre and filmmaking conventions out of the window, but thoroughly elevates our soul by the end of this masterful exercise.
My favourite feature debut from the French New Wave—an extraordinary meditation on trauma, memory and love as Resnais merges the historical, geographical and the personal in an intelligent and sensuous way.
This is one of Hitchcock’s crowning achievements where he perfected the picaresque pursuit as a flat-out entertainer.
This powerful and tragic German anti-war film pits a group of drafted schoolboys-turned-inexperienced-soldiers against the advancing Americans as WWII draws to a close.
One of the best courtroom dramas ever shot, Preminger’s film may be lengthy but is tremendously engaging.
Continue reading →A rare Ozu masterpiece about being optimistic and moving on with life, shot in rich colour by the famous Kazuo Miyagawa.
Eternality Tan 