Left Field Cinema

Pen-Ek Ratanaruang may have employed parts of his team from Hong Kong and Japan, but this is most assuredly a Thai film in every way that counts.

In many ways Bob Rafelson's 1970 feature film represents the start of the second golden age of American cinema, coming at the very start of the decade famous for it's subversive and intellectual stature movie making, this represents one of the first American films made with a deliberately European flavour. A film which mirrors the works of Ingmar Bergman in particular.

The Kieslowski series continues, this time examining his 1991 masterpiece and arguably greatest feature film, a study of the invisible connections between human beings.

Carl Franklin's 1995 Neo Noir doesn't garner the same level of plaudits as the likes of China Town or L.A. Confidential, but it is an overlooked gem worthy of your attention.