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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, […]
‘1 woman became 2/2 women became 3/3 women became 1’. Writer-director Robert Altman’s 1977 avant-garde drama film 3 Women is an Ingmar Bergmanesque study of vain old folks’ home worker Millie (Shelley Duvall), new mysterious teenage helper […]
Italians try to survive as the Americans liberate a small town in Tuscany from the Germans in August 1944, in the moving 1981 Italian wartime drama film The Night of San Lorenzo from Paolo Taviani […]
Director Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1968 Italian drama Partner stars Pierre Clémenti as introverted Giacobbe, who invents a doppelganger to win in life – and especially to win the hand of the lovely Clara (Stefania Sandrelli). Alas, […]
Director Ingmar Bergman draws on his own recurring nightmares for his troubling 1968 Swedish psychological horror film Hour of the Wolf [Vargtimmen], which stars Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann in a story about the […]
Director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1989 Mexican horror thriller/ drama Santa Sangre is a highly offensive shocker masquerading as an art film, though nevertheless it is admired for its dementedly weird ideas and crazily surreal visuals. Axel […]
Director Nicolas Winding Refn’s 2003 surreal neo noir thriller Fear X stars John Turturro, Deborah Kara Unger and James Remar. Refn co-writes the screenplay with Hubert Selby Jr, who wrote the books of Last Exit […]