Containing the hallmarks of great sci-fi fantasy movies, this enthralling but underseen animation from the โFantastic Planetโ director, with art stylings from Mลbius, gives us intergalactic, mind-bending travel, as an urgent rescue crew attempts to reach a boy stranded on a hostile planet.
Offering almost nothing in terms of plot and characterisation, Lauโs film is an often hilarious if skilful showcase of a series of dynamic action โspectaclesโ one after another.
The exploitation of religion in a poor village is the subject of Bernalโs best-known, and at times, shocking work, as word spreads about a woman who claims to have visions of the Virgin Mary.
De Niroโs most wicked performance for a Scorsese picture, this is an incisively comical take on what happens when the determination to succeed in showbiz is taken to the extreme.
Itโs tragic and overly melodramatic for sure, but Ann Hui’s then-controversial work about the sufferings of the Vietnamese post-Vietnam War remains a significant entry of the burgeoning Hong Kong New Wave.
One of the greatest sci-fi films ever made, this is a masterpiece of mood setting, existential themes and unforgettable images.
This quaint self-reflective piece by Oliveira doesnโt always work, but it is an introspective glimpse into the filmmakerโs mind, his life experiences and awareness of his mortality.
Rohmerโs second โComedies & Proverbsโ film is one of his more straightforward affairs as it dissects with nuance why some people are obsessed with marriage, while others are simply disinterested.
The perils of drug addiction meet with the allure of a faded Third Reich star in Fassbinderโs evocative and fatalistic penultimate film.
A skimpy storyline and uninteresting lead characters mar this artistic antecedent to โMoulin Rougeโ and โLa La Landโ.
Eternality Tan 