A mix of avant-garde Godard and topographical Rivette, but wholly Oshima in this occasionally ponderous meta-filmic and self-reflexive take on what it means to engage politically with filmmaking as a character leaves a mysterious final reel of film after committing suicide.
The film that solidified Jack Nicholson as a leading star as this New Hollywood classic about alienation follows an empty shell of a man who decides to visit his estranged ailing father while trapped in a loveless relationship with his girlfriend.
Bergman’s first documentary provides a rather brief but still insightful look at the residents (farmer, schoolteacher, newly married couple, and more) of the isolated Fårö Island, poetically shot by longtime collaborator Sven Nykvist.
Sporadically engaging despite the palpable sense of verité-style American indie filmmaking as a newly divorced woman finds herself stranded and exploited by men in this sole feature by Barbara Loden.
This Locarno Golden Leopard winner, through its radical film language and vibrant experimentation with form, speaks to the disenchanting African experience in France where the Blacks have been continually ostracised, discriminated and exoticised.
A masterful crime thriller by Melville with one of the most intricate heist sequences ever shot.
Tedious at times with an overbearing anti-Americanism, this was an experimental misstep by Antonioni who seemed to want to say a lot but achieved little in the process.
Shot in Congo with Jean-Pierre Leaud, Rocha’s avant-garde attack on Western imperialism on African soil may feel didactic at times, but it is fierce and uncompromising in its message of political self-determination.
A rare ‘Zatoichi’ entry with not one but two ruthless villains hogging the spotlight, which is a double-edged sword for character development, though it delivers in terms of action.
Demy goes full-blown with his colour palette and visual style in this rather straightforward and sporadically engaging fairy tale about an incestuous king who wants to marry his daughter.
Eternality Tan 