Majid Majidi’s tender and sweet 1999 story of young siblings whose loyalty to each other and joyous embrace of life help overcome their impoverished lives became the first Iranian film to earn an Oscar nomination.
Actor Jakob Cedergren carries this drama about an Emergency Services operator who receives a call from a woman in trouble and has to solve a mystery with only a phone.
The crime films of Fernando di Leo are poliziotteschi (Italian crime thriller) at its best and these three films in particular dismantle the pulp glorification of the mafia.
The stocky Thai stuntman turned action hero has an impressive physique, a steel snap to his delivery, and a gymnastic prowess to his style, and it’s all on display in this endearingly naïve martial arts adventure.
Fernando di Leo’s seventies Italian gangster thriller stars Luc Merenda as a hotshop young cop on the take and features some of the most impressive car chases of its era.
This wordless film is like a tone poem that contemplates the odyssey of the soul through the cycles of existence, a mix of natural, spiritual, magical, and metaphysical brought together through cinema.
Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-Wai star in Wong Kar-Wai’s sensual shadow dance of would-be lovers. It was vote #5 in the 2022 Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll.
