Jean-Luc Godard once said “All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun.” Bande à part, his most approachable and accessible film, is something of an exercise in whether or not this is true. More…
In François Truffaut’s La peau douce, a married man begins an affair with an air hostess, but as he tries to keep it a secret he’s already on the road to downfall. More…
Described by renowned film critic François Truffaut as “the greatest film noir I have ever seen”, Jules Dassin’s Rififi is a moody and exhilarating textbook in crime cinema. More…
One of East Germany’s most loved and famous films, Die Legende von Paul und Paula, is a tragic comedy story with a modern take on love and marriage in a socialist state. More…
Werner Herzog vexes our conception of human identity in Kaspar Hauser, the true story of a feral child subjected to the aggressive fascination of 19th century Germany. More…
Jean-Pierre Melville’s restrained drama, based on Joseph Kessel’s novel, follows the fortunes of a particular cell in the French Resistance during WWII. More…
The 2000 French film from Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi offers us a complex and compromised portrait of a society fragmenting along fault lines of race, class and gender. More…
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Amelie is the beautiful and enchanting story of a shy and quiet waitress in Paris who decides to do good deeds and bring smiles to faces. More…
What is Delicatessen? A horror film, a black comedy, a musical, a post-apocalyptic nightmare, a romance, a twisted thriller, a futuristic fantasy, or a human drama? More…
Wolfgang Petersen’s Das Boot is a well-established classic of the genre and a technical masterpiece, but what does it tell us about the genre when the soldiers are fighting on the ‘other’ side? More…
Roy Andersson’s Songs From The Second Floor is a film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo, but it’s also been pithily described as “slapstick Ingmar Bergman”. More…
In 1970, Roy Andersson released his first feature film. Despite what is and what’s gone before, A Swedish Love Story seems to say, you can make your own life as you wish. More…
Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1966 film is based on the occurrences during the Algerian War against The French Government in North Africa, and it still stands as a truly important film. More…
Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen, based on Mala Sen’s biography of Phoolan Devi, serves as grim reminder of the social injustices women in India continue to face today. More…
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