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Director Luis Buñuel’s still provocative, vital and amusing 1930 avant-garde Surrealist masterpiece early work L’Age d’Or [The Golden Age] intends to shock and provoke as it sends up the hypocrisies of organised religion and bourgeois society, […]
The young Viennese-born Hedy Lamarr (then billed under her real name as Hedy Kiesler) shocked the world when she appeared (discreetly) nude in director Gustav Machatý’s straightforward 1932 Czech erotic love story. The story is […]
Director Roland Joffé’s earnest 1992 drama City of Joy is based on the book by Dominique Lapierre. It stars Patrick Swayze as Max Lowe, an American doctor who comes into Calcutta to solve his mid-life […]
Writer-director John Cameron Mitchell’s highly provocative, extremely controversial 2006 American erotic comedy-drama film teaches a lesson of acceptance as it centres on a sexually diverse group of colorful characters trying to connect in New York City. The […]
Writer-director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s challenging and outstanding 1964 film is a beautiful, moving, masterly version of the life of Jesus Christ from an unexpected film-maker, who provocatively sees the story from a Marxist viewpoint and […]
Writer-director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1969 metaphorical drama is bleak and alienating though commendably ambitious and powerful all the same, as you’d expect from him. Pasolini scatters challenging ideas and images all over the screen but he […]
Director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s infamous, highly controversial, problematic final film, based on the Marquis de Sade’s novel The 120 Days of Sodom, was made shortly before his murder on 2 November 1975, aged 53, and released […]