Brazenly turning the camera onto a fictionalised version of his own life, gifted director and choreographer Bob Fosse delivers a wildly imaginative backstage musical masterpiece. “All That Jazz pushes the musical genre to personal depths and virtuosic aesthetic heights.” – Criterion ...

The life of famed photographer Nan Goldin and her activism against the disgraced pharmaceutical billionaire Sackler family, especially their patronage of the art world. “If you’ve ever doubted how art, rage or action can make meaningful change, Goldin’s combination of all three … is exhilarating proof.” – LA Times ...

A favourite of Steven Spielberg, this deeply affecting, humanist masterpiece stars Kurosawa regular Takashi Shimura as an ordinary civil servant who discovers what it means to live. “An introspective, naturalistic contemporary drama combining progressive social criticism with a universal humanist message.” – Total Film ...

Shooting entirely on location in the streets of Paris, Varda chronicles two anxious hours in a pop singer’s life. Score by Michel Legrand, who cameos alongside Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina. “The film...has an amazing quality of life, animation and hope.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer ...

This moving and sensitive semi-autobiographical feature from Mexican director Lila Avilés follows a family’s journey of grief and loss through the eyes of a young girl. “Expectations were rewarded with an intimate film and impeccable direction.” – The Film Verdict ...

This madcap ’40s comedy, based on a popular Broadway revue, tears down the fourth wall with purely cinematic gags – calling to mind Monty Python more than the Marx Brothers. “The most wonderfully surreal comedy from Hollywood’s Golden Age.” – Film Threat ...

Arthouse maverick Albert Serra takes us on an unsettling tour of the French Polynesian tropics with this anti-epic tale of political paranoia set against a backdrop of picture postcard sunsets. “Set to its own tidal rhythm, it is one of the most beautiful and rigorously introspective movies of this or any year.” – IndieWire ...

Forest Whitaker is a Zen hitman following a strict samurai code who turns against his mafioso bosses in this surreal, stylish blend of gangster thriller and martial arts action. “It's a nearly pitch-perfect melding of genres, influences and modes of expression.” – LA Times ...

An American ballerina arrives at a prestigious ballet academy, only for things to take a sinister and supernatural turn. “The thrills and spills are so classy and fast that the movie becomes in effect what horror movies seemed like when you were too young to get in to see them.” – Time Out ...

In 1981 South Africa’s rugby team, the Springboks, were invited to tour New Zealand. The decision was extremely controversial; some people saw it as a tacit endorsement of apartheid while others insisted that politics had nothing to do with New Zealand’s favourite sport. PATU! is the definitive film of what followed, as attempts to disrupt the Tour pitched protestors against the government, police and rugby crowds, with violent results. Some of the era’s leading cinematographers captured the protests of winter 1981 in raw and confronting street-level footage, while the film made an explicit connection between apartheid abroad and racism at home. ...

Lon Chaney stars as the mysterious Phantom obsessed with opera singer Christine in this first screen adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s 1909 novel. The film will be accompanied by a new score composed and performed live by Pōneke musicians including Ruby Solly (Kāi Tahu, Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe). “An ultra fantastic melodrama.” – Roger Ebert ...

Oil painted on glass creates a fully dreamlike effect in this poignant animation – a refugee story blending fairytale fantasy with realist drama. “Wonderfully staged with its shifting colour palette and a multitude of subtle ideas gracefully put into images.” – Cineuropa ...

Amenábar’s dizzying Spanish sci-fi psycho-thriller blurs the lines between reality and illusion and keeps its audience guessing with a series of mind-bending twists. “A stunning movie that'll keep you guessing right until the very last minute... and scratching your head all the way home.” – BBC ...

Innovative photography and skilled direction create a brilliant illustration of the elusiveness of objective truth in this samurai murder mystery, which was Kurosawa’s international breakthrough. “A chilling, utterly memorable dissection of the nature of human communication.” – The Guardian ...

This remarkably assured feature debut melds a dreamy summertime coming-of-age teen romance with an eerie and enigmatic ghost story. “Le Bon’s debut showcases a playful spirit behind the camera: one eager to blend opposing genres, to find something authentically heartfelt beneath the tropes and gothic artifice.” – The Film Stage ...

Trading ultraviolence for introspection, Peckinpah’s final western follows newly minted lawman Pat Garrett across the American West as he stalks his old friend, Billy the Kid.“There is a sombre, mournful quality which places the film very high up in the league of great Westerns.” – Time Out ...

This powerful and compassionate early feature by novelist-turned-director Lee Chang-dong examines Korea’s turbulent recent past through the life of one desperate man. “The inspired decision to tell the story in reverse chronology turns the film into a very moving and sometimes very disturbing quest for Yong-ho’s lost innocence.” – Vancouver International Film Festival ...

This heady sci-fi thriller takes us on a gripping cinematic voyage packed with astute film references, Hitchcockian suspense and brain-melting metaphysics. “Director Timm Kröger displays admirably reckless ambition with this very original yet oddly familiar work.” – The Guardian ...

Polish veteran Jerzy Skolimowski returns with this allegorical tale of a donkey who takes a surreal journey across Europe, experiencing cruelty and kindness in equal measure. “A beguiling and often brutal look at the life of a donkey, this hijacks your heart, your mind, your ears and your eyes from start to finish.” – Empire ...

Based on real-life events, Kitty Green’s savvy outback thriller finds two American backpackers signing up for a holiday job tending bar at an Australian pub in the middle of nowhere. “A psychological thriller, it’s all the more tense for Green’s smart understatement of the genre elements.” – The Observer ...

Baltimore housewife Divine is driven to alcoholism by her cheating husband, promiscuous daughter and foot-fetishist son in this pungent parody of melodramatic delirium. “Polyester is a liberatingly crude satire of suburban mores.” – Entertainment Weekly ...

Aging outlaws go out in a blaze of glory in Peckinpah’s elegiac film about the last days of the Wild West. Still the brutal benchmark for action cinema, influencing countless imitators. “It’s a towering achievement that grows more riveting and resonant with the years.” – Rolling Stone ...

A group of uni students finds more than they bargained for when they move into an abandoned house in Sarkies’ newly restored Dunedin crime caper. “Easily the most outlandishly entertaining New Zealand film for years.” – Christchurch Star ...

Godard’s pop-art masterpiece embraces and parodies the revolutionary spirit of a group of middle-class students determined to overthrow the establishment by any means necessary. “Brilliant dialectical farce, distinctly disquieting as well as gratingly funny.” – Time Out ...

Fresh from the success of M*A*S*H, Altman threw his unmistakable directorial flair behind this sharply scripted, avian-themed black comedy about a recluse who dreams of being able to fly. “One of Altman's most charming exercises in cabaret humor and off-the-cuff modernism.” – Chicago Reader ...

This profoundly cinematic ghost story tracks the progress of a spirit who can’t let go of the woman he loved and the house they shared, evoking a moving sense of existential disquiet. “It exists in an eerie cinematic in-between, and is completely unlike anything else you’ll see this year.” – The Telegraph ...

A kidnapping sparks a moral dilemma for a wealthy executive in this superb, suspenseful noir adapted from a novel by Ed McBain. “One of the best detective thrillers ever filmed”– New York Times ...

The ghosts are literally in the machine in this innovative and prophetic Y2K-era horror flick portraying an interconnected world haunted by the dread of loneliness. “Whether you take it as a horror show or social commentary (or both), this is sublimely terrifying stuff.” – LA Weekly ...

Celebrated as one of the scariest films of all time, this eerie tale about a gothic manor house which just may be haunted is a masterclass in the power of suggestion. “An elegantly sinister scare movie, literate and expensive.” – Pauline Kael ...

This charming, bittersweet portrait of childhood from Oscar-nominated director Lasse Hallström tells the story of a twelve-year-old boy sent to live in the country when his mother falls ill. “My Life as a Dog is sad. And sweet. And sublimely funny. It shouldn't be missed.” — Miami Herald ...

Cabaret performer Ninón Sevilla stars in this blend of noir, melodrama and mambo musical from one of Mexican cinema’s most celebrated auteurs. “As a classic example of the cine de rumberas genre, Victims of Sin is a jolting rediscovery, mixing high-level craft and underworld action.” – The Cinematheque ...

A young ballerina must choose between her career and romance in Powell and Pressburger’s sumptuous drama, based on the 1845 Hans Christian Anderson fairytale. “[the film] just blazes out of the screen: profoundly serious, sublimely innocent, yet deeply and mysteriously erotic.” – The Guardian ...