Shyam Benegal’s highly influential first feature sees actress Shabana Azmi bursting into the limelight in this anguishing tale about the injustices of India’s caste system and gender subjugation.
A neorealist-inspired first feature by Kiarostami, charting his path to become one of cinema’s foremost chroniclers of the human condition.
Polanski’s greatest accomplishment, and one of the finest American films ever made from the ’70s.
It may have a wafer-thin storyline, but there’s no shortage of action in this mildly entertaining final instalment.
Polished, precise and beautifully-shot in black-and-white, but its cold and austere treatment can be a long, alienating slog.
This Sirkian-influenced interracial romance-drama by Fassbinder is emotionally resonant and unexpectedly timely in today’s cross-cultural yet xenophobic societies.
