A winner of Best Screenplay at Venice, Rohmer’s final ‘Four Seasons’ entry is an incisive and revelatory take on finding romance at a much older age, featuring two outstanding performances by Marie Riviere and Beatrice Romand.
Any film about the Holocaust is always essential viewing—this Oscar-winning documentary details the testimonies of five Hungarian Jews who survived the concentration camps during the time when the Nazis brutally intensified their extermination plan despite knowing they were losing the war.
Arguably Terrence Malick’s greatest work – a masterpiece of light and darkness, calmness and brutality, and the intertwining of both, in this singular war film.
One of the greatest war movies ever made, Spielberg’s visceral and immersive approach and the film’s strong technical prowess continue to amaze more than two decades on.
An oddball coming-of-age comedy revolving around a prep school student that is well-staged to a fault.
As China urbanises, a man stagnates in this masterful and revelatory feature debut by Jia Zhangke, shot in 16mm and featuring non-professional actors.
Chanelling the free spirit of the French New Wave, Villeneuve’s first feature is stylistically bold but falls short as a narrative about two ex-lovers who cannot be together.
Startlingly assured debut by Christopher Nolan in this noir-mystery that lays the first brick for ‘Memento‘ (2000) and ‘Inception‘ (2010).
Banned in Singapore, Ozon’s early satirical if uneven black comedy asks of us to reimagine the limits of morality as a middle-class family ‘rebalances’ itself through debauchery, sadomasochism and incest.
You wouldn’t expect this mature and revelatory work to have been directed by a 17-year old woman in Iran.
Eternality Tan 