Who is the ultimate authority after a film has been made? Is it the general public, who its often intended to entertain, or the critics that make it their professional duty to determine whether it is a success or a failure, or the filmmaker, who looks back at a specific work and decides whether they…

A young man named David Holzman (L.M. Kit Carson) decides that he is going to make a film, he himself occupying the central role. However, instead of constructing a feasible plot and writing a script, he chooses to simply film his own life, believing that documenting his daily activities will be compelling enough, with his…

When it comes to Birds, Orphans and Fools (Slovak: Vtáčkovia, siroty a blázni), there are only two kinds of people who understand it – those who lived through the Prague Spring and can account for the social and political turmoil demonstrated here, and those who are mentally unstable enough to grasp this fever-dream of a…

In Shinjuku City, one of Tokyo’s many neighbourhoods resides a small bookshop run by a genial elderly author (Moichi Tanabe). The bane of his existence, as he soon learns, is a young man named Birdy Hilltop (Tadanori Yokoo), a petty criminal who has chosen this particular establishment as the base for his latest series of…

Here are three undeniable facts – firstly, none of us were expecting to wake up this morning to find a new David Lynch film having secretly been released, especially when the story involves Lynch interrogating a monkey, who is yearning for his long-lost love, Toototabon, a beautiful chicken, and who may or may not be…

In a small but luxurious apartment in an unnamed American city resides an unnamed call-boy (played by Bobby Kendall), who spends his time daydreaming when he isn’t seeing to one of his clients. He imagines himself in a variety of situations – a matador to a cheering audience, a slave to a Roman court, a…

You’d be forgiven for thinking Ciao! Manhattan is nothing other than the pretentious avant-garde malarkey produced during the heyday of Andy Warhol’s Factory, where art films were produced on a seemingly endless conveyor belt of post-war ennui, in which the artist and his creative partners could take the opportunity to express themselves by showing off…

A man named Józef (Jan Nowicki) is on a train heading to a remote location. His destination is a mental institution, and his reason for finding himself there is to visit his father, Jakub (Tadeusz Kondrat), who is on the verge of death. Far from being the rehabilitation centre the protagonist expected it to be,…

In the quiet tranquility of a small but comfortable apartment sits Euridice (Vera Tschechowa), a young woman who has been sentenced to spend an unknown amount of time as a prisoner to an unseen entity, which constantly calls the apartment just to mock her situation and to give her false hope that she will soon…

Hell hath no fury like a woman bored. From the first moment of Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Chantal Akerman takes us on a fascinating journey into the depths of the human condition, where we are presented with the story of an ordinary woman going about her average life and not much…