An inventive treatise on living and dying, and most important of all, of loving, as a legal trial in heaven decides the fate of an airman who is literally caught in an unprecedented life-and-death scenario.
One of the towering achievements of British cinema from one of the medium’s most formidable directing duos.
A ballet dancer is torn between romance and ambition in one of Powell and Pressburger’s most glorious and ravishing Technicolor triumphs.
Good but not great, this handsomely-mounted biopic about a Welsh journalist’s news-breaking report on the Ukrainian famine of the early ‘30s under Stalin is a welcome introduction to a murky and disturbing part of 20th-century history.
A disappointing effort by Korean auteur Park Chan-wook – an unfortunate case of too much style and too little substance.
Polanski’s Golden Berlin Bear winner traverses the territory of absurdist cinema in what is a sporadically engaging but sharp commentary on power plays associated with psychological sadism and the gender and classist pressures to conform.
Startlingly assured debut by Christopher Nolan in this noir-mystery that lays the first brick for ‘Memento‘ (2000) and ‘Inception‘ (2010).
A staggering technical and visual storytelling achievement, Nolan’s WWII epic continues his unparalleled run of blockbuster form.
A late career high of sorts as Hitchcock returns to the UK to shoot another ‘wrong man’ picture in the guise of a serial killer thriller.
Nothing is certain in Ozon’s layered, erotic mystery about the commingling of reality and imagination with the creative writing process, featuring excellent performances by Charlotte Rampling and Ludivine Sagnier.
Eternality Tan 