De Leon’s madcap comedy is a delirious genre-bending piece that sees Japanese yakuza and Chinese gangsters cross paths with a group of Filipino youth caught up in a drug syndicate.
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De Leon’s madcap comedy is a delirious genre-bending piece that sees Japanese yakuza and Chinese gangsters cross paths with a group of Filipino youth caught up in a drug syndicate.
Isabelle Huppert plays a Jewish working-class woman who agrees to be secretly impregnated by her rich friend’s husband in order to help the couple conceive in this morally complex tale set in the backdrop of rising Nazism in the 1930s.
De Palma’s command of the erotic thriller is indisputable in this suspenseful murder mystery that pays full homage to Hitchcock.
This could be Lynch’s most enduring film – an emotionally-resonating and psychologically-rich work about discrimination and compassion based on the true story of a horribly disfigured man.
One of Scorsese’s greatest accomplishments—an astonishing character study of the rise and fall of a world champion middleweight boxer that is also an acting and editing masterclass.
An unexpected critical success, Resnais’ sly, mosaic-like film about behavioural psychology as explored through the personal stories of a trio of interconnecting characters is a masterclass in associative editing, and one of his finest pictures.
Continue reading →A masterpiece of baroque horror cinema that continues to haunt through tone, technique and characterisation.
Continue reading →Jarmusch’s first feature is at best a time capsule of New York City in the late ‘70s, and at worst, an aimless and meandering borefest.