2020 has been a year in which not a lot has made much sense, based on a variety of events that have caused our collective species to come to a grinding halt and reconsider even the most essential components of our existence – yet, in a time when nothing is what it seems, one film…
Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Here are a few things I know to be true: firstly, the Japanese New Wave is one of the most sorely underrepresented of all film movements, with many of its works being tragically ignored in favour of others, which is truly shameful since some of the most inventive films ever made were produced by this…
Red Desert (1964)
Nestled comfortably in Northern Italy is the industrial town of Ravenna, which is home to many factories and large-scale businesses, all of which take advantage of whatever natural resources they can get from this region, which they feel compelled to exploit as far as they can. The wife of one of the managers is Giuliana…
Nothing But a Man (1964)
Duff (Ivan Dixon) is a young railroad labourer whose line of work has prevented him from settling in any one place for too long, which has made him something of an enigma for the people who encounter him over the years. However, he’s growing disillusioned with his chosen career, with the idea of being a…
The World of Henry Orient (1964)
Here’s a lesson: it pays off to be a bit sceptical from time to time, because if you blindly trust a film based on what it appears to be, you’re occasionally going to find that you’ve been deceived the whole time, and not always in a particularly clever way. Based on the title and the…
Miss Juneteenth (2020)
Nobody has understood the pain of holding onto broken dreams quite like Turquoise Jones (Nicole Beharie), who was well on her way to success during her teenage years, particularly after winning the regional Miss Juneteenth pageant, which is known to afford the winners a full scholarship to the university of their choice, and thus afford…
Sound of the Mountain (1954)
Nestled in a humble hilltop home reside Shingo Ogata (So Yamamura), an elderly businessman heading towards retirement and his wife, Yasuko (Teruko Nagaoka). The couple has been married for decades, and have settled into their golden years, living with their son, Shuichi (Ken Uehara) and his young wife, Kikuko (Setsuko Hara), who is growing accustomed…
Babyteeth (2020)
Milla (Eliza Scanlen) is a precocious teenage girl who has struggled to fit in most of her life, always being something of an outsider. She has been quietly battling cancer for a while and has recently relapsed, making the need for an even more aggressive form of treatment to take over her life. This causes…
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
If you long for something that occurred at the perfect intersection between sanctimonious morality tale and harrowing existential horror, you’d probably find Roger Corman’s adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death delivers exactly what you’re looking for. To describe this film is to attempt to put a saddle on one of…
Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
The Savages are an ordinary couple resides in an unassuming house in London, where Myra (Kim Stanley) works as a medium, conducting weekly séances for a variety of people who come from far and wide to sample from her apparent brilliance. Her husband, Billy (Richard Attenborough) struggles to keep his wife under control, with her…
The Postmodern Pelican 