Despite its lack of style and the textbook-esque approach to conventional documentary filmmaking, this is quite rightly one of the finest of its kind—a galvanising and sensitive work on the LGBTQ legacy of Harvey Milk and his tragic assassination.
Sylvia Chang and Sally Yeh are a hoot together in this romantic triangle that sees Tsui Hark bringing the Hollywood screwball comedy to his home turf, marked by farcical setups and rewarding payoffs.
A dress rehearsal for what would come later, this captivating early effort may be thought of as Miyazaki’s ‘Dune’—a fantasy epic with warring nations, a mythic prophecy and giant insects that also operates as a potent call to prevent the mother of all ecological disasters.
Things go terribly awry after a jewellery store heist in this visceral and gritty film that is a serious contender for the zeitgeist-iest HK crime-actioner of the ‘80s, made with the kind of masculine gusto that seems rare today.
A professional killer implicated deep within an organised crime syndicate waits to be activated in Morita’s impressive mood piece of a character study, methodically conceived and featuring a denouement as shocking as any in ‘80s Japanese cinema.
Even the thinnest possible execution of a revenge plot cannot undo one of Shaw’s greatest martial arts movies, one that sees Lau creating new stratospheric heights for action filmmaking.
Nuns join the local workers’ strike in De Leon’s most explicitly political work about the oppression of the working-class by brutal capitalists, shot with a universal audience in mind who are aligned with its fervent message of solidarity.
The first of Meszaros’ powerful autobiographical ‘Diary’ films charts its young protagonist’s return from Russia to Hungary as communism rears its ugly head in the period after WWII.
One of the most significant works of Georgian cinema, this anti-totalitarian film previously banned by the Soviets deals with its serious themes through a potent mix of acute symbolism and surrealist absurdity.
A young woman tests the limits of her romantic relationship by concurrently experimenting with being ‘single’ in one of Rohmer’s bleaker offerings on the existential nature of love.
Eternality Tan 