As an action film, John Wooโs first foray into Hollywood filmmaking ticks the right boxes, plus itโs also one of my favourite Van Damme outings.
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Hard Target (1993)
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Elephant Man, The (1980)
This could be Lynch’s most enduring film – an emotionally-resonating and psychologically-rich work about discrimination and compassion based on the true story of a horribly disfigured man.
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Wild at Heart (1990)
Lynchโs delirious Palme dโOr-winning film starts very strongly but peters out as an incoherent if still fun, violent and erotic lovers-on-the-road movie.
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Robinson Crusoe (1954)
Bunuelโs first film in colour was his closest flirtation with a Hollywood style of filmmaking, effortlessly adapting the famous story of a shipwrecked man who must live solitarily on an unknown island for an unknown number of years.
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Minari (2020)
The Korean immigrant experience in America, portrayed with intimacy and tenderness, and featuring two discoveries of the yearโ the promising child actor Alan Kim and Emile Mosseriโs ethereal score.
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Eraserhead (1977)
Outstanding feature debut by David Lynch, this is as nightmarish and surreal as they come.
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Nomadland (2020)
This Venice Golden Lion winner is an affecting film of elemental beauty, with a performance from Frances McDormand that is as natural as its cinematography, about folks living in vans in the American West.
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Icarus (2017)
Even if you donโt give a hoot about the Olympics, this sensational Oscar-winning documentary about state-sanctioned sports doping in Russia is eye-opening and riveting.
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First Cow (2019)
Reichardt continues to show why she is a master in making films where nothing quite happens, yet there is so much going on beneath the surface in this slow-moving if poignant tale of friendship between two men.
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News of the World (2020)
Tom Hanks and the wildly-talented Helena Zengel strike up an odd partnership and just about lift this standard-fare Western-esque drama set in the Civil War period into something akin to serviceable entertainment.
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