Its the one about the donkey. Its ownership passed through the hands of several owners- good, bad and indifferent.

Terrence Malick is now something of a legend in Hollywood thanks to the fact that he only makes masterpieces or near masterpieces. His debut, a chilling and lyrical study of young lovers on the run (amok) is his most reknowned and most heartfelt.

Fascinating debut of Bertolucci which has a 20 year old torn between radical Marxist action and conformity.

Fassbinder,s exquisitely bleak, humourous and above all, profoundly humane 13 hour television epic finally makes it to dvd.

Often cited by critics as the greatest film of the greatest African director.

Now considered by many to be a classic, especially since the release of the Director's cut which adds a little and subtracts the needless voice over.

A wonderfully anarchic satirical comedy with Simon as the blithely uncivilised cukoo in the nest of a genteel borgeois household. Gentle and humourous as well as pointed and poignant.

A beautiful, strange exotic fable following a an immigrant injured labourer who is sent home from Lisbon with a Portuguese nurse to the Cape Verde Islands whilst still in a coma.

A genteel middlle class schoolteacher and his family is tenuously spared impoverishment  by the long suffering older daughter who works herself into an abyss of exhaustion and amorous frustration, whilst her siblings relentlessly pursue their dreams of respectively, sporting, musical and matrimonial success.

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THE EXILES chronicles one night in the lives
of young Native American men and women living in the Bunker Hill

"Faces is a Loser Club movie, the theme being about people straying into brief sexual relations, or wanting to stray and nor being able.

The only TV series which makes it the Filmshop 300 film list.

This is the kind of exemplary, deeply personal, defiantly strange and mysterious film making that the New Hollywood of the 1970s was supposed to represent and in many ways it is the last film of that

It is a commonplace that you can't make movies which combine intense broad-brush future-dystopian visionary panache and fidelity to every-day intimate human congress. Imagine 2001 with dialogue by Raymond Carver or a JG Ballard story directed by Robert Altman.

The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty outdoes even Wenders' subsequent Alice in the Cities
in its sense that everything shown is at once subjective and objective.
German goalie Bloch (Brauss) walks out of a game in Vienna, hangs
around, commits an arbitrary murder, and then takes a coach to the

for me, the best and most important
of all the “fifth generation” Chinese filmmakers who
entered the Beijing Film Academy after the end of the
Cultural Revolution and began to have access to a wide

Voted Time Out's Film of the Noughties.

My favourite christmas comedy. ehem..sorry, Its a good movie. Indeed, It also has websites devoted to it.

Ray's bizarre, delriously emotional cod-Freudian Western transcends the old cliches with glorious use of colour, space and a dramatic intensity that makes this one of the best westerns ever made. A women's Western to boot.

A typically reserved British couple, Alexander and Katherine Joyce
have travelled from England to Naples to await the sale of a property
they have inherited. Dissatisifed in their marriage and unfamiliar with
the rites and habits of the Neapolitans, the strains of this unfamiliar
environment tell wearingly on their relationship. In refuge, Katherine

Try to ignore if possible, its overwhelming social/racial context. It seems this film has been adopted by the Library of Congress amongst other venerable institutions, to highlight the long neglected Black experience, as seen in American Culture.

Script/Story: Jacob Brackman and Bob Rafelson. Cinematography: Lazslo KovacsAn irresistible movie, not least for its
haunting vision of Atlantic City as Xanadu, a stately pleasure dome of
genteelly decaying palaces, run-down funfairs, and empty boardwalks
presided over by white elephants abandoned to their brooding fate. It's

Vittoria (Monica Vitti) breaks one affair and starts another with a high flying investment broker (Delon), which runs its course.
The culmination of his early 60s trilogy ( with L Avventura and La Notte), L'Eclisse is a masterpiece of emotional frustration and modern capitalist malaise. The Bourse scenes, once regarded as obscure and important, in 2009 seem an impressive presentiment of doom.

It’s a black comedy based on various film noir tropes: forgotten lovers, crimes unseen or uncommitted.It’s a parody of early twentieth century decadence and sybaritism.

Synopsis: Lang's first
sound film was based on the real-life manhunt for the Düsseldorf

There is something profoundly mysterious about my attraction to this film which makes me love it with an unbridled passion.

Pialat, known in the UK for his admirable 80s films made with big name actors like Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert (Loulou, Police) deserves an appraisal based on his early 70s films of which th

A game of two halfs. the second half being the tale told again from a dead persons (one of the female charcters) perspective wishing to atone for the sins of the first half.

One of the true children's classics, a near wordless study of a burgeoning friendship with a stray red balloon.

Click her to see Jonathan Rosenbaum's excellent full review.http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?cat=5

It turns out I'm not on my own here in admiring the terrible twin's (Verheoven/Esterhas) lubricious comic freak-out that is Show Girls- a quick trawl through the web yields Jim Jarmusch and Jacques Rivette as fellow admirers.Weep with joy.

Maybe the best Australian film ever and certainly one of the finest 1980s films anywhere.

Ray’s stunning, richly empathetic adaptation of  Edward Anderson’s depression era novel ‘Thieves like Us’ is still the most iconic and affecting treatment of the criminal lovers-on-the-run theme that the cinema has ever produced.

After multiple viewings of this supreme master work the overwhelming emotional power of this film still gets you every time on the big screen.

A quite astonishingly good stab at directing by famous writer Norman Mailer, which has to stand as the best film ever directed by a celebrated author, it also looks from this distance like one of the

This exciting existentialist road movie by Monte Hellman, with a swell
script by Rudolph Wurlitzer and Will Corry and my favorite Warren Oates