Not Bunuel at his finest, but he takes down the upper-classes in the kind of sharp comic absurdity that he is known for.
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Exterminating Angel, The (1962)
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Tag / Mexico
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Sicario (2015)
Villeneuve’s film builds suspense like a worker laying bricks – slowly but surely, giving us a largely solid Mexican cartel infiltration thriller that packs a strong punch.
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Fando and Lis (1968)
Jodorowsky’s notorious debut feature seems to show us a burgeoning surrealist-visualist already fully-formed, but one couldn’t care any less for his meandering storytelling or impenetrable characters.
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Holy Mountain, The (1973)
You haven’t really seen how outrageous cinema could be until you have seen Jodorowsky’s psychedelic-surrealist head trip on acid.
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El Topo (1970)
Jodorowsky’s breakthrough film is one of the progenitors of the ‘midnight movie’ phenomenon, and has since become one of the most important cult films in history.
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Missing (1982)
Superb political mystery-thriller that is stimulating, and featuring magnetic performances from Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek.
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Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976)
Continue reading →Religion and politics collide in frightening ways in this based-on-a-true-story ‘docu-drama’ that ranks as one of Mexican cinema’s greatest films.
Sin Nombre (2009)
Continue reading →Cary Fukunaga’s first feature is an emotional, but brutal take on the immigrant’s journey atop freight trains across gang-infested Mexico.
Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)
Continue reading →A road trip across Mexico, oozing with eroticism and the joys and agonies of living, in what is Cuaron’s most liberating picture to date.
Roma (2018)
Continue reading →Cuaron’s most personal film to date is one of the decade’s very best, a testament to cinema’s power to capture life, memory and emotion in this restraint if audacious work.
