Yasujiro Ozu’s classic about an elderly couple neglected by their adult children is a gently devastating drama that placed in the number four spot in the 2022 Sight & Sound Top 100 Films poll.
Whether or not Youseff Chahine’s autobiographical ‘Alexandria’ trilogy are the greatest films of his career, they are in many ways his crowning achievement: his love letter to the cinema he loved so much.
The greatest atomic age giant monster rises from the radioactive depths and descends upon Tokyo in the 1954 classic, now restored to its original Japanese cut.
Kaneto Shindo’s 1968 classic is one of the greatest of Japanese ghost stories, a horror film of elemental drive, social commentary, feminist rage, and visual grace
Kaneto Shindo’s primal classic looks like a ghost story and has the unsettling, hostile atmosphere of a horror movie but the real demons arise from the desperation and savagery of the human animal.
Jean-Louis Trintignant is an Italian repressed bureaucrat who joins the Fascist party in 1930s Italy in Bertolucci’s brilliant study in sex, desire, politics, and personal responsibility.
