Left Field Cinema

Jim Sheridan's biopic following the life of Irish painter and poet Christy Brown and his search for romantic love. Featuring a power-house performance from Daniel Day-Lewis which would establish him as one the worlds greatest performers.

Takeshi Kitano's 2002 meditation on unconditional devotion - boasting a multi-stranded narrative, slow pace, and the absence of Kitano as performer. This is one of Kitano's finest films and a clear member of the Japanese Avant Garde.

Genre is examined in relation to this cult classic from 1980, John Landis' critically disastrous but culturally successful screw-ball comedy is tonally erratic which is both its greatest strength and its greatest weakness.

Aku Louhimies excellent hidden masterpiece, this Finnish film is based on Leo Tolstoy's short story The Forged Coupon.