A Sundance award-winning documentary that captures the power of civil resistance with gripping immediacy, as it chronicles the Kenmure Street protests in Glasgow, after two Sikh men were taken from their home into a police van that was prevented by the community from departing.
Oshima’s WWII anti-war melodrama feels more like theatre than cinema, as the quartet of compelling actors (Bowie, Sakamoto, Conti, and Kitano), queer undercurrents, and a highly emotional epilogue elevate it into something unexpectedly sublime.
Swinton’s sublime gender-fluid performance is one for the ages (well, quite literally), giving Potter’s one-of-a-kind adaptation of the unfilmable Virginia Woolf novel its consistent anchor, as it explores the human mind’s preoccupation with both existential and corporeal torments and pleasures.
Arguably Greenaway’s most controversial work about food and sex, this cult arthouse sensation pushed cinematography and visual style to a whole new ascetic level, as the wife of an ultra-obnoxious restaurateur cheats on him.
Boyle returns with a banger in this solid third film of the cult zombie franchise, as he finds another peak, sonically and experientially, with this tense, gory and energetic work that is also surprisingly moving as a meditation on mortality.
One of Cronenberg’s best films, this Russian-mobsters-in-London crime drama boasts well-developed characters and startling violence, as a nurse inevitably gets too close to exposing the sinister activities of a shady restaurateur.
Leigh’s bleak family drama catches us in an emotional no man’s land, accompanied by a committed performance by Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who plays an incredibly noxious mother who hates people and is in deep pain.
Guadagnino’s meta faux-documentary is messy, tonally jarring and insensitive, but Tilda Swinton as actress-narrator-interviewer makes it more palatable to accept as his debut feature reconstructs a ghastly real-life murder with curious sensationalism.
A young black woman in search of her white biological mother gives Leigh’s heartwrenching if occasionally amusing film the kind of narrative and thematic gravitas rarely experienced in such stories about families in crisis, featuring an all-timer performance by Brenda Blethyn.
There is nothing quite like Greenaway’s perverse ‘zoological’ treatise on human and animal mortality, decomposition and disability, as a car accident leaves a despairing woman without a leg and two grieving twin brothers without their wives.
Eternality Tan 