Amelie

Malick's meditation on life, death and the whole damn thing is a sublime and beautiful, maddening and inspiring film, winner of the top prize a t Cannes, revered and reviled in roughly equal measure.

One of the most popular French films of the past 25 years, Amelie is a delightfully whimsical confection from the ever-inventive Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Audrey Tautou stars as a young Parisienne who resolves to make the world a happier place...

Dario Argento's symphony of horror is a demented fairytale in saturated colours and features one of the greatest of all electronic scores by Goblin.

Jodorowsky's unforgettable third film (after El Topo and Holy Mountain--and years trying to get Dune made) is a cavalcade of burning images, a circus of strange.

Herzog's grandest folly was almost his undoing, but became his greatest triumph. One of cinema's least convincing Irishmen, Klaus Kinski plays Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, who has a dream to bring opera to the Amazon.

Frederic Forrest plays Dashiell Hammett, the Maltese Falcon author who once worked for Pinkerton's Detective Agency. Agreeing to help an old friend, he gets sucked into a mystery as compelling as any he could have imagined...

Coppola's audaciously woozy, cinematically audacious take on the vampire myth is like a symphonic silent movie in full colour.

The definitive rendering of Francis Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War magnum opus marks the last hurrah of the New Hollywood of the 70s and the end of our Ragged Glory: Summer in the 70s season.

Gene Hackman is Harry Caul, 'the best bugger on the West Coast', a surveillance expert whose jealously guarded anonymity is threatened when he happens across what seems to be a murder plot.

Shot over four years across 24 countries, cowritten by a six year old girl, and entirely self-financed by commercials director Tarsem, The Fall is such a mind- (and eye) boggling movie it's hard to believe it actually exists. Yet here it is!