As imaginative as any other film from Zeman, though the storytelling may feel rather laboured, as authorities try to find several missing boys onboard a new airship that has flown away.
A wuxia classic that pushed the genre to more brutal and grittier ends, as a martial artist must master a new fighting style after inexplicably losing an arm.
This slow-burner suspense classic, and one of Melville’s most influential works, is an excellent character study of the ‘hitman’.
A housewife prostitutes herself to earn more money to enjoy life’s luxuries in Godard’s somewhat messy ‘anything goes’ takedown on consumerism, as he scathingly—and self-reflexively—goes off tangent in matters of language, the Paris city, love and more.
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.
Eternality Tan 