Adrian Martin

Luis Buñuel weaved together multiple strands of his artistry in his final film, which blends the surrealism of his early years, the melodrama of his 1950s work, and the elegant erotic comedy of his late career.

Crazy things keep happening in Luis Buñuel’s perverse comedy of manners, a film that coolly deconstructs itself at every turn.

With a mixture of intuition, craft, and an endless curiosity about how cinema can be used to shock and provoke, the Spanish master left us with a rich body of work that stands as a testament to the power of surrealism.

A forged note brings chaos and corruption to the lives of everyone it touches in Robert Bresson’s devastating final film.

A beloved filmmaker in India, the Bengali director Ritwik Ghatak digs into his region’s traumatic history in this epic melodrama.

In myriad inventive ways, Terrence Malick’s philosophical drama shows us how nature and culture are always intertwined.

Agnès Varda seizes the kind of immediacy and tension associated, at the start of the sixties, with the cinema verité documentary movement and uses it to create a new form of fiction.

In one of the great films of the sixties, Jean-Luc Godard takes an irreverent look at the “children of Marx and Coca-Cola,” carried along by the first great tidal wave of pop culture consumption.