This is experimental filmmaking on an epic scale, and also one of the greatest pictures to emerge from China’s Fifth Generation.
Tag / 1986
Better Tomorrow, A (1986)
You really can’t get any more ‘Hong Kong classic’ than this masterful actioner by John Woo.
Sacrifice, The (1986)
This is Tarkovsky channeling Bergman through his own unique visuals and esoteric style, and also a fitting end to his astonishing but short-lived career of cinematic gems.
This Love of Mine (1986)
An utterly miserable work about a woman coming to terms with her cheating husband that is torturous to sit through.
Down by Law (1986)
Jim Jarmusch’s third feature is difficult to pigeonhole, in what is a stylishly shot piece that works as an offbeat if poetic comedy.
Something Wild (1986)
Rocking, grooving fun in this unpredictable and offbeat picture that impresses in its seamless shifts in tone and great chemistry between the two leads.
Dust in the Wind (1986)
The third film in Hou’s ‘coming-of-age trilogy’ eschews sentiment for a bleak if poetic visual meditation on fate, space and time.
