Woman on the Run

Elio Petri’s savage, Palme d’Or-winning takedown of capitalism and industrial corruption. Gian Maria Volonté (A Fistful of Dollars), stars as Lulu, a man on the verge of a nervous breakdown, in one of provocative filmmaker Elio Petri’s (Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion) most politically charged films. Too tired to sleep with his girlfriend, cut […]

Lorenza Mazzetti arrived in London from Italy in 1951, survivor of a wartime atrocity in which her Jewish relatives were murdered; she quickly made friends with other artists in a new and different world. Though associated with the realist Free Cinema movement, her stark yet playful films – all shot on location in the capital’s […]

What does it mean to film another person? How does it affect the person – and what does it do to the one who films? A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home: these scenes and others are woven into […]

A masterful mix of film noir and police thriller set on the sweltering mean streets of occupied Tokyo. When rookie detective Murakami (Toshiro Mifune) has his pistol stolen from his pocket while on a bus, his frantic attempts to track down the thief lead him to an illegal weapons market in the Tokyo underworld. But […]

The Wicker Man has had an enduring fascination for audiences since its release in 1973. A unique and bone-fide horror masterpiece, brilliantly scripted by Anthony Schaffer (Sleuth, Frenzy) and featuring an astounding performance by the legendary Christopher Lee. Director Robin Hardy’s atmospheric use of location, unsettling imagery and haunting soundtrack gradually builds to one of […]

A Danish priest journeys into the unknown in Hlynur Pálmason’s meditative drama Godland, which received its world premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Travelling across Iceland’s ruggedly beautiful, yet inhospitable, terrain, the clergyman strengthens his resolve to set up a church in a remote community. 

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There are mad films. And then there are films that exist on a whole different level, whose vision is best described as… crazy. And we don’t just mean the American spelling of ‘color’. Richard Stanley’s long-awaited return to cinema totally fits the bill. The director of early 1990s cult classics Hardware and Dust Devil has […]