An under-appreciated oddball of a film by Alain Resnais that dabbles with US-French cultural idiosyncrasies as well as the tension between popular culture and intellectual scholarship.
An essential early work of Jarmusch, this is a cinematic hymn to Memphis city’s rich musical history, filmed as a connecting triptych of oddball characters of various nationalities over the course of one day and night in this ‘ghost town’.
This is a top-tier ‘heroic bloodshed’ picture by John Woo—a masterclass in action filmmaking with that rare commitment to pathos.
Continue reading →This historical epic about post-WWII Taiwan is one of Hou’s most ambitious and encompassing works, and also his first true masterpiece.
