Lady Snowblood (1973)

Lady Snowblood (Toshiya Fujita, 1973) Japanese Title: Shurayukihime To claim that Toshiya Fujita's Lady Snowblood is artful cinema, whi...

Silip (1985)

Silip (Elwood Perez, 1985) aka Daughters of Eve Elwood Perez's Silip has that ball-grabbing opening. It is that sort of opening that im...

Tuli (2005)

Tuli (Auraeus Solito, 2005) English Title: Circumcision After the introduction of Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros ( The Blossoming of Ma...

Ten Canoes (2006)

Ten Canoes (Rolf de Heer & Peter Djigirr, 2006) The title is derived from a black and white photograph by Dr. Donald Thompson, an anthro...

Django (1966)

Django (Sergio Corbucci, 1966) The film's opening has achieved a certain legendary status. Greeted with a sense of prophetic foreboding ...

Wonderland (1999)

Wonderland (Michael Winterbottom, 1999) Wonderland is a lovely film, probably director Michael Winterbottom's best film to date. It...

Scoop (2006)

Scoop (Woody Allen, 2006) In a scene in Scoop , Woody Allen's character, neurotic magician Sid Waterman, tells Scarlett Johansson's...