Written and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa this Mystery/Crime/Horror film revolves around several similar murders occuring in Tokyo where each victim has an X carved into their necks. Each time the crime is commited by a different person and each of them don't even leave the scene, they are instead found just chilling by the victims appearing in a trance unable to remember exactly what happened. This stuns Detective Kenichi Takabe (Kōji Yakusho) who very soon into these mysterious cases begins…
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Late Spring 1949
This beautifully lyrical Yasujirō Ozu masterpiece follows widower Professor Shukichi Somiya (Chishu Ryu) and his daughter Noriko (Setsuko Hara) who is single and in her 20s. Noriko and Shukichi are very close and live together, Noriko looks after her father by doing all of the cooking plus general housework and the two seem to be pretty happy. Very soon Shukichi's sister, Aunt Masa (Haruko Sugimura) suggests that Noriko gets married and even though she doesn't want to the pressure is…
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Past Lives 2023
Probably one of the most impressive debuts ever - Celine Song's Past Lives is a beautifuly meditative film. A masterpiece that contains great natural performances and dialogue and one that is just perfectly crafted in every way.
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A History of Violence 2005
"Ask Tom how he once tried to rip my eye out with barbed wire. And ask him Edie, ask him how come he's so good at killing people."
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Raging Bull 1980
Martin Scorsese had suffered a near fatal cocaine overdose just before this was made and the biography of Jake LaMotta was shown to Scorsese by De Niro during a hospital visit and that's how we eventually got this masterpiece. Scorsese is said to have felt this could have been his last film and it's intensity and rawness can actually be hard to stomach at times but it feels so personal and you just can't look away. The beautiful black and…
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Lawrence of Arabia 1962
This film is Based on of the life of T. E. Lawrence who was most famous for leading armies of Arabian tribes in military campaigns going against the Ottoman Empire in World War I. The film was directed by renowned filmaker David Lean and Peter O'Toole starred as Lawrence in one of the greatest performances I've ever seen in a film and I'll go into more detail with that soon. So it was beautifully shot in 70mm with such care…
