A reimagination of Oz through the lens of ‘70s New York, blending dazzling production design with soulful and disco-infused music, as an all-Black cast led by Diana Ross and a young Michael Jackson take center stage.
Lau’s action extravaganza pits Chinese and Japanese martial arts against each other in a quest for legitimacy and personal dignity, disguised as an amusing marital conflict drama between a Chinese man and a Japanese woman.
A significant work of Malayalam cinema, Aravindan’s work, by turns exuberant and elegiac, about a circus act coming to a rural Indian village teases out the hypnotic and exhibitionistic qualities of performative art in ways that challenge our unquestioned spectatorship.
A young man is forced to escape from the oppressive Tartars and into the doors of a Shaolin temple in this exceptional high point of ‘70s HK kung-fu cinema that is as entertaining and cathartic as they come.
Skolimowski goes into Nicolas Roeg territory in this idyllic English countryside drama that turns into inexplicable psychological terror when a couple is disrupted by the presence of a mysterious man who knows Aboriginal magic.
Stripped to its bare essentials, this Melville-esque car chase thriller sees Ryan O’Neal and Bruce Dern go head-to-head as a getaway driver and dirty detective respectively.
One of Ripstein’s best-known films, this sensual if sobering drama tackles machismo and homophobia in a small Mexican town and its now dilapidated brothel, featuring an intense performance by the cross-dressing Roberto Cobo.
One of Ripstein’s more transgressive works, this seductive tale of a priest who, out of spite, begins a sexual affair with his maid in his parish, asks us to reconsider the meaning of immorality.
Fassbinder’s tale of a despondent transgender woman facing the anguish of a wrecked love life might be one of his gloomiest efforts in portraying the existence of the marginalised.
A drama exploring the pent-up angst between a mother and daughter with emotionally intense performances by Bergman and Ullmann.
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