Sid and Nancy
Alex Cox’s retelling of the Sex Pistols bassist’s doomed junkie romance with an American groupie still packs a punch.
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Penda’s Fen
Alan Clarke’s visionary coming-of-age dream still lingers in the minds of 1970s children.
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Baal
David Bowie brings star swagger to Alan Clarke’s take on Bertolt Brecht’s dissolute poet.
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Elephant
Alan Clarke’s bold, stripped-down take on sectarian killings in Northern Ireland remains as provocative as when it was first screened on the BBC.
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High-Rise
Ben Wheatley’s Ballard adaptation deliriously embraces social breakdown in a dystopian past future.
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A Touch of Zen
This sumptuous wuxia classic continues to thrill and enchant.
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Ruined Heart: Another Love Story between a Criminal and a Whore
Khavn de la Cruz’s Filipino musical noir compensates for its lack of plot with oodles of style.
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Yakuza Apocalypse
Takashi Miike’s crackpot vampire yakuza tale is fun but frustratingly slapdash.
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Love & Peace
Sion Sono has made an insanely warped family film about a rock star and a turtle.
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Der Nachtmahr
A thoroughly discombobulating German oddity, Akiz’s film is hazy and hormonal and well worth a look.
Review by Mark Stafford