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After twenty years this film remains an astonishing sensory assault

The altogether bizarre second feature directed by James B. Harris, Stanley Kubrick’s former producing partner

A “Terrible and disgusting” (so claimed JFK) 1960 indie? Perhaps, but it’s also a good one.

A monument of silent era Italian cinema, and one of the screen’s most indelible depictions of Hell

There are worse ways to waste 104 minutes.

A 33-minute four parter by Japan’s Sogo Ishii, returning to form after a nine-year gap.

I know many of you love this film. I don’t!

Yes, this was the first feature film made by 22-year-old Stanley Kubrick, and not exactly a monumental debut

Goethe’s classic poem, adapted for film in 1931–painfully minimalistic, but worth a watch

A tricky film, this: a cunning and perverse thriller that takes the guise of, and works best as, a dark character study