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Discover the fragmented horrors of this Robert Altman psychodrama

by Anton Bitel

The writer/director’s idiosyncratic 1972 film Images is ripe for rediscovery.

Two sets of female eyes peering through the darkness.

Discover Henri-George Clouzot’s psychedelic swansong

by Anton Bitel

The French director’s 1968 La Prisonnière aka Woman in Chains is both compelling and perverse.

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Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin’s forgotten cine revolution

by Little White Lies

Read an exclusive extract of a long-lost conversation between these innovative French filmmakers.

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The generation-spanning human drama of Hal Hartley’s Henry Fool trilogy

by Anton Bitel

Made over 17 years, this unlikely series is among the indie writer/director’s finest achievements.

Two individuals, one wearing a mask, embracing in a garden.

Discover the grisly drama of this surgery-based Southern gothic

by Anton Bitel

John Grissmer’s Scalpel, about a psychopathic plastic surgeon, has been rescued from VHS obscurity.

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Discover the proto-giallo pleasures of Dario Argento’s debut feature

by Anton Bitel

A 4K restoration of The Bird with the Crystal Plumage is being released.

Two women lying on a bed, one asleep, the other awake and looking off-camera. Soft, intimate lighting and bedding create a pensive, moody scene.

Discover the Psycho-esque thrills of this ’70s serial killer romance

by Anton Bitel

Peter Collinson’s Straight on Till Morning offers a grisly vision of Britain in the 1970s.

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The prescient politics of GW Pabst’s anti-war films

by Patrick Nabarro

In Westfront 1918 and Kameradschaft, the Austrian director interrogates the slippery notion of nationalism.

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The low, lurid pleasures of Dario Argento’s The Cat O’ Nine Tails

by Anton Bitel

The Italian director’s 1971 giallo shows a visionary film artist still finding his feet.

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The horror of coming-of-age in Brian De Palma’s Carrie

by Anton Bitel

Adolescence is key to everything in this seminal Stephen King adaptation from 1974.