Featuring arguably a career-best performance by Romy Schneider, Zulawski’s work here is enigmatic and indescribably haunting as it dissects the meaning of love and desire through the psychological destabilisation of its characters.
Perverse, disturbing and chilling, but also essential, Pasolini’s controversial final film evokes both disgust and fascination in equal measure.
A depressing, slow-burning gay drama that only Fassbinder (also fantastic in the lead role) could have conceived—full of pathos and rich in its depiction of the milieu of a class-divided queer community.
In the pantheon of Southeast Asian cinema, this stands as one of the finest films – bold, bleak and uncompromising.
A film that will anger the hell out of you as Shyam Benegal tackles gender and class oppression in a depressingly kyriarchal Indian town with brazen confidence.
Mukherjee’s classic comedy revolving around an elaborate practical joke planned and executed by a newly-wedded man on his hapless in-laws is one of his most entertaining delights.
Continue reading →Kubrick’s understated and underrated costume-drama is, to me, his greatest accomplishment, and possibly the most beautiful period film ever made.
Continue reading →Tarkovsky’s purest cinematic poem pulls you into its complex if nebulous form, in a work that continues to astonish time and time again.
The film that started it all, in this brilliant absurd brand of comedy and satire.
Al Pacino gives one of his finest performances in this highly-entertaining drama about a bank robbery gone wrong, directed by the incredibly dexterous Sidney Lumet.
Eternality Tan 