A Diola village is forced to “volunteer” their young men for the French army, while women are asked to give up tonnes of rice in Sembene’s urgent, spiritually defiant WWII work of anti-colonial resistance.
A tale of beauty and decay, Visconti’s cinematic requiem for Thomas Mann sees Dirk Bogarde, in a quiet, despairing performance, playing an ageing composer obsessed with the perfect looks of a teenage boy, accompanied generously by Mahler’s heart-aching ‘Adagietto’.
Love is a complicated, nebulous thing in Bresson’s minimalist, if surprisingly sensual, adaptation of Dostoevsky’s ‘White Nights’, about two wounded, disillusioned souls that can’t seem to operate beyond their present malaise.
This Swiss drama shares a similar spirit with the breezy films of ‘60s French New Wave as an exceptional Bulle Ogier plays an enigmatic woman who is the subject of two writers in this thought-provoking work about what it means to construct a person(a) through fact and fiction.
Bogdanovich’s best-known work and one of New Hollywood’s most elegiac films, this is a deeply felt early ‘50s portrait of a dusty old Texan town fading away along with its downtrodden characters.
Polish master Zanussi’s early work is such a uniquely irresistible and besetting experience, about a man who returns to his ancestral home after many years only to find that his family is still as dysfunctional.
An interesting, and at times, comical crossover between two cultural action icons, this is a generally satisfying if predictable entry.
Kim Ki-young reimagines his ‘Housemaid’ tale in colour in this stylish and devilish undertaking, featuring Oscar-winner Youn Yuh-jung in her acting debut.
Pasolini’s first film in his unofficial ‘Trilogy of Life’ is wildly provocative and blasphemous where religion and sex meet at the crossroads of art.
Arguably Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s finest film, a bittersweet comedy about a doctor and his cancer patient starring Rajesh Khanna in a delightfully hilarious performance and Amitabh Bachchan in a breakthrough supporting role.
Eternality Tan 