Made just 37 years after the novel’s publication and eight years after the birth of cinema, the first film adaptation was directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow, and was based on Sir John Tenniel’s original illustrations.

Two pieces of meat find love in a kitchen.

Claire Denis’ sublime 35 Shots of Rum is the moving story of a father and daughter whose close-knit, tender relationship is disrupted by a handsome young suitor.

Legendary animator Jań Švankmajer brings to life the story of Faust, who is solicited by the devil at a Prague subway exit and sells his soul in exchange for 24 pleasure-filled years. An unusual and surreal adaptation of Goethe’s, Grabbe’s and Marlowe’s classics.

Outer Space is a shocker of cinematographic dysfunction; a hell-raiser of avant-garde cinema. It conjures up an inferno which pursues the destruction (of cinematic narrative and illusion) with unimaginable beauty.

Returning to the beaches which have been parts of her life, Agnès Varda invents a kind of self-portrait-documentary. Agnès stages herself among excerpts of her films, images and reportages.

Filming in Nabua, site of a bloody 1965 battle between communist farmers and the totalitarian government, Weerasethakul employs a roving, floating camera and incantatory omniscient narration to simultaneously evoke the dangerous cycles of violence and repression.

In the film, the evolution of the human race is traced from prehistory, through today (mankind as teeming crowds of selfish, fighting, or lost individuals), to hundreds of millions of years into the future as our species evolves into countless new forms; all of them still behaving the same way.

Betty Blue is quintessential French cinema material, an uninhibited and tumultuous story of an obsessive relationship that descends into madness.

Arguably the first and certainly the most sophisticated cartoon until that time, Emile Cohl’s Fantasmagorie is a stream-of-conscious narrative that remains impressive after a century.

In one of the all-time classic chase films, Buster Keaton must impress the girl he loves by becoming a business man, even if that means “borrowing” a cop’s wallet, accidentally stealing a family’s entire household, and outrunning the city’s entire police force!

The first episode of Lars Von Trier’s TV miniseries. Influenced by Twin Peaks, The Kingdom follows the bizarre and unexplainable occurrences inside a Danish hospital ward. Both satirical and horrifying, The Kingdom is a world of its own.

When technical illustrator Tony Takitani asks his wife to resist her all-consuming obsession for designer clothes, the consequences are tragic.

1984 is the American television commercial which introduced the Macintosh personal computer for the first time. It is now considered a “watershed event” and a “masterpiece.”

While on a Mediterranean vacation, a seemingly happy couple (Birgit Minichmayr, Lars Eidinger) find their connection to one another tested as they bond with another couple. Winner of the Grand Prix and Best Actress prizes at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival.

Yusuf is released from prison after serving a ten year sentence. Because of unexpected problems at his sister’s house, he finds himself in an old and cheap hotel in Izmir where he meets a man, a woman and a child who will complicate his life.

French stage magician Georges Méliès worked in many genres, but is especially remembered for short trick films such as this. Méliès wrote, designed and directed his films and often (as here) starred; he was undoubtedly the most accomplished filmmaker in the world in 1901.

The fourth episode of Lars Von Trier’s TV miniseries. Influenced by Twin Peaks, The Kingdom follows the bizarre and unexplainable occurrences inside a Danish hospital ward. Both satirical and horrifying, The Kingdom is a world of its own.

The second episode of Lars Von Trier’s TV miniseries. Influenced by Twin Peaks, The Kingdom follows the bizarre and unexplainable occurrences inside a Danish hospital ward. Both satirical and horrifying, The Kingdom is a world of its own.