Two lonely, emotionally wounded men find connection in each other as Wenders’ road movie takes us on a poetic journey of self-reflection as they drive from one town to another, repairing faulty cinema projectors.
A great Spanish film about childhood, death and painful memories, featuring an exceptional performance by the bright-eyed if soulful Ana Torrent, with director Saura deftly navigating different planes of temporal and psychological realities.
Seemingly existing outside of time, Rivette’s performative revenge tale featuring women pirates and sorceresses is one of his boldest experiments in film form, culminating in an occult-like finale of dancing bodies in trance.
Two celestial beings battle for a magical diamond in the underbelly of Paris in Rivette’s peculiar anti-fantasy, one that is drenched in a noir-ish atmosphere of shadowy interiors.
Quite a strong debut feature from De Leon as he explores the genre of horror in a disquieting atmospheric way while using the story of loss, fateful connection and religious rites to make implicit links with the trauma caused by the toxic political patriarchy.
There are two Robert Kleins (one’s a Jew) in WWII Nazi-occupied France in this slow-burning, finely-tuned Kafkaesque wrong identity mystery-thriller, starring a paranoid Alain Delon.
Bergman fashions a character study as a penetrating psychoanalytic exercise featuring what could be Liv Ullmann’s most intensely vulnerable performance as a psychiatrist suffering from a severe mental breakdown.
A meandering misfire from Chahine, this family conflict drama infused with superfluous sequences of song-and-dance fails to stir the senses in the way that his best works effortlessly do.
One of the most notorious films in the history of cinema—its explicit, unsimulated depiction of sex hides a troubling exploration of social alienation.
An anomaly in Rohmer’s filmography, this beautiful if minimalist period costume drama about a woman who doesn’t know how she got pregnant feels like a stage exercise rather than an embracing, organic work.
Eternality Tan 