Tammy McDonald (Felicity Huffman) is a middle-aged woman who is always on the verge of dying, a result of her alcoholism and drug abuse compelling her to flirt with the idea of suicide, which is normally just a cue for her to get the necessary attention from her daughter, Cathy (Anastasia Phillips), who is growing…

In the decades after the Second World War wrought unimaginable damage on the nation, the people of Japan do their best to rebuild their society. For most of them, they undergo immense travail in the hopes of recapturing the glory of their pre-war culture. However, others are not quite as dedicated, and choose to rather…

Roslyn High School in Long Island is vying to be the best high school in the country – and they seem to be well on the way to achieving that goal, mostly due to the hard work being done by Dr Frank Tassone (Hugh Jackman), the school’s superintendent that embodies the spirit of dedication through…

“The road begins and the journey is already over” Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Hawks and the Sparrows (Italian: Uccellacci e uccellini) is a film built from a fundamentally contradictory perspective – a comedy that is far bleaker than most films made during this time, and a neo-realist masterpiece that has frequent flights of fancy into…

The Greek countryside at some point in the 1960s – Thanos (George Dialegmenos) is a young man who works as a goatherd for his rural community, coming from a long line of manual labourers and shepherds, including his deceased father, who died from what appears to be over-exertion under the employment of Vlahopoulos (Tzavalas Karousos),…

Two actors – Maurice (Peter O’Toole) and Ian (Leslie Phillips) – reside in a small London flat. Their best days are behind them, but they make sure to spend what is left celebrating their longevity and having as much fun as they can while they await the inevitable. This normally takes the form of long…

There are certain filmmakers who achieve fame through their longevity, and those that earn it through originality. Luis Buñuel did both and rose to become one of the most influential film directors of all time, and someone whose work has been embraced by generations of film-lovers, critics and individuals in the industry, who were inspired…

Two individuals cross paths quite unexpectedly and are launched into a situation where they find themselves unable to resist committing crimes, as well as falling deeply in love through the process. Dennis (Anthony Perkins) has recently been released from a psychiatric hospital, where he has been residing for several years after committing an act of…

A mysterious man (Rod Steiger) roams the streets of New York City in the late 1960s. He adopts a variety of disguises – a genial Irish priest, a passionate German expatriate and a flamboyant hairstylists are amongst his more notable achievement, which he uses to coerce his way into the homes of a variety of…

Karel Kopfrkingl (Rudolf Hrušínský) is a mild-mannered man who has a passion for his career – he runs a small but renowned crematorium in Prague, where many of the city’s most established individuals briefly reside after their death, put under the meticulous care of a man who adores his chosen profession. His work is extremely…