This solid mythical epic based on Sophocles’ most famous text sees Pasolini passionately delivering a rousing tragedy, a precursor and counterpoint to his boisterous and even more provocative ‘Trilogy of Life’.
This beloved classic epitomised the French ’60s musical, with Demy at the top of his game weaving his multitude of characters together in the delightful and colourful world he had created.
A terrific Zatoichi flick and one of the series’ very best, Misumi’s focus on story and characterisation is the real sleight-of-hand here in this slower but well-paced movie.
This is one of the franchise’s most daring entries—bloodier, gorier and more morally ambiguous.
This 15th installment’s focus on drama and storytelling is noteworthy, building to one of the series’ finest action-packed climaxes.
A bold and stunning effort by Bunuel that explores with psychological depth both sexual repression and expression from the perspective of a sexy but frigid young woman.
Lust and personal resolve collide in Rohmer’s first feature in colour, lensed with warmth and sensuality by Days of Heaven’s Nestor Almendros.
An essential work of the Brazilian Cinema Novo movement, Rocha’s film may be difficult to get into at times, but its electrifying visual style and bold commitment to deconstructing politics and class remain revered.
Godard’s anarchic work of gleeful nihilism is not just a challenging treatise on the corruption and destruction of bourgeois values, but one of his most essential films about the end of civility and civilisation.
A rather overdrawn Italian drama with stark humour by the great Bellocchio that fuses everything from Socialist politics, class system, sexual affairs and the Church that it gets heady at times.
Eternality Tan 