Hovering between a remake and a visual remix, Mamoru Oshii’s fascinating Ghost in the Shell 2.0 updates his cyberpunk cult classic with new technologies such as 3D CGI. Echoing the duality of the cyborg protagonist, the mix of old and new animation styles also parallels the evolution of anime.

Influencing filmmakers from the Wachowskis to James Cameron, Mamoru Oshii’s cyberpunk classic is one of the defining anime of its generation. A dystopian vision jeweled with glass-walled skyscrapers and automatons, whose hypnotic beauty begs the fundamental question of what it means to be human.

Ahora que su nueva película, Los cinco diablos, se estrenó, regresemos al encantador debut de Léa Mysius: una exploración de la sexualidad femenina y los miedos de la adolescencia con colores deslumbrantes, humor caprichoso y la melancolía onírica de un verano transformador. ¡Y qué soundtrack!

Surrealist objects set the stage and a menagerie of kindred animals curl and slither across it in Nina Menkes’s shadowy, monochrome fairytale. Numbed to loveless sex and pointless wars, Marina Shoif’s saturnine croupier abandons earthbound calls and levitates toward the ether for her liberation.

Esta joya de Eugene Kotlyarenko habita los ritmos del tedio millenial con perspicacia y un flujo constante de mensajes de texto, live streams y perfiles de aplicaciones de ligue. Con la actuación de Dasha Nekrasova, famosa por Red Scare, Wobble Palace se balancea entre la ironía y la sinceridad.

Entirely comprised of surveillance videos, Joële Walinga’s mold-breaking documentary emphasizes the omnipresence of cameras in modern life. Though produced under unnatural conditions, the found footage, which moves with the rhythm of seasonal changes, also paints an arresting portrait of humanity.

Barbet Schroeder doesn’t shy away from controversial subjects, be they the barbarous dictator Idi Amin or fundamentalist monk Ashin Wirathu. This remarkably open-minded portrait of the problematic lawyer and anticolonial activist Jacques Vergès questions why someone would defend the indefensible.

Kirsten Dunst won Best Actress at Cannes for this thunderous masterwork about the catatonic effects of depression. It was perhaps inevitable that Lars von Trier’s cinema of suffering would culminate in the total annihilation of humankind. Still, the end of the world has never looked more beautiful.

Willem Dafoe followed his Best Actor prize at Venice with an Oscar® nomination for his magnificent performance as Vincent van Gogh in this impressionistic biopic. Beautifully directed by Julian Schnabel, At Eternity’s Gate is an immersive portrait, not just of the artist, but his singular worldview.

Casting her spellbinding sister as an officer investigating a murder, Nina Menkes journeys into a sandstorm of military and sexual violence. Refusing resolution, this fascinating film excavates an atmosphere of haunting that is aswirl with dreamlike imagery and mesmeric incantation.

Taking to Paris for the first time, Georgian director Otar Iosseliani bottles the cheek and clamor of the crowd and shakes it up to create a rowdy city symphony reminiscent of Jacques Tati. Overflowing with curiosities, this full-of-life film also features a young Mathieu Amalric as an art thief!

Haciendo de versiones ficticias de sí mismos, el director Eugene Kotlyarenko y la estrella indie Kate Lyn Sheil se unen a unos bichos raros en esta improvisada comedia post-ruptura. Bombardeado con las seductoras distracciones de la vida en Los Ángeles, el amor moderno es más frágil que nunca.

The most provocative entry in Akio Jissôji’s “Buddhist Trilogy,” this experimental masterwork is a bracing examination of religious fanaticism. Stylistically radical and erotically charged, Mandala is a deeply philosophical, taboo-busting inquiry into man’s primal capacity for good and evil.

Broodingly atmospheric and replete with sharply-manoeuvred twists, this noir-inflected thriller examines the machinations of the East German regime in forensic detail. Winner of the Best International Feature Oscar®, The Lives of Others lucidly evokes the insidious terror of the surveillance state.

Stylistically ravishing and unabashedly perverse, this wickedly entertaining psychosexual thriller finds Brian De Palma at the peak of his reflexive powers. Channelling Vertigo and Rear Window, Body Double might be the ultimate Hitchcock homage, but its virtuosity belongs entirely to De Palma.

Doppelgängers and double-crosses abound in director Brian De Palma and screenwriter Paul Schrader’s dazzling tribute to Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Featuring a magnificent score from Bernard Herrmann, Obsession is a deliriously melodramatic high-tension thriller from the master of the macabre.

Awash with striking imagery, Nina Menkes’s indelible portrait of alienated womanhood counters the glitz of nocturnal Las Vegas with its daytime loneliness. Sullenly glamorous, the blood-red claws sported by Tinka Menkes’s croupier evokes a gesture of resistance against the drudgery of casino life.

Como Agnès Varda y Věra Chytilová, Ula Stöckl vio en los años ’60 un ramo de posibilidades y se volvió una de las primeras directoras feministas en Alemania Occidental. Película lúdica y polifónica sobre cinco mujeres recién independizadas. La femineidad moderna como una melodía vivaz y contagiosa.

Eugene Kotlyarenko, un ejemplo destacado de cine de escritorio, nos presenta los cómicos percances de la holgazanería a través de interfaces informáticas. Brotando como la hierba, la vertiginosa galaxia de ventanas emergentes y ventanas de webcam proyecta una nueva intimidad millennial.

An atmospheric fever dream unfurling over motel rooms and prison cells, Nina Menkes’s groundbreaking first feature traces the cyclical nature of exploitation. Simmering with rage, Tinka Menkes’s potent evocation of a fractured female psyche unveils the emotional ravage of transactional encounters.

If your path has ever led to Istanbul, you most probably called a stray cat by name and touched their furry head with tenderness. Ceyda Torun’s high-spirited and affecting documentary tells the story of decades-long exchanges between Istanbulites and their feline friends in the streets.

Paul Schrader’s splendidly sordid second film dives into the sexual underworld of ‘70s California and its adult film industry. A brilliant combination of John Ford’s The Searchers, the existential nihilism of Taxi Driver (which Schrader of course wrote) and the combustible acting of George C. Scott.

Riotously campy as a 1950s housewife awakened to fetishistic thrills, Oscar® nominee Andrea Riseborough is a vortex of sexual chaos in Amanda Kramer’s genderqueer musical fantasia, also starring Demi Moore. Dripping with neon colors, Please Baby Please surrenders to the ecstasy of erotic liberation.

Drifting through transient terrains on foot and by train and boat, Nina Menkes’s hypnotic odyssey evokes unspoken feelings of exile and alienation through trance-like imagery. As the vagabond heroine, the enigmatic aura of her real-life sister Tinka Menkes strikes a powerful, autobiographical cord.

En este corto Sara Cwynar se sumerge en una avalancha de pantallas hechas para el consumo y la vigilancia. Al plasmar la compulsión con la que navegamos por las imágenes, la artista canadiense sale del bucle infinito del hipervínculo con una visión fascinante de la belleza estética en nuestros días.

Aired on PBS three years after Ronald Reagan fired 11,000 striking workers, this dramatization of labor disputes in 1910s Chicago is exhilaratingly pro-union. Maximizing the democratic reach of the small screen and its scope for densely detailed storytelling, it is a riveting and rousing watch.

Co-written with Chris Marker, this French New Wave travelogue both delights in the carnival that is American abundance and lifts the lid on cookie-cutter uniformity to reveal inequality and waste beneath. Wait for the ending: a heavenward gaze at glassy skyscrapers that is nothing short of sublime.

Reunited with his Antichrist and Melancholia collaborator Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lars von Trier returns to the life of protagonist Jo to conclude what may well prove his magnum opus. A lofty work—less lusty, but still stark and shocking—rich in metaphor and psychological insight.

Perhaps the most epic of Lars von Trier’s many provocations, this stylistically strange, sprawling and yes, substantial, character study comprehensively approaches the subjects of love and sex and everything in between. A fascinating, daring drama—featuring Stacy Martin in her first film role.

La película de Carla Simón, candidata española a los Oscar® que ganó el Oso de Oro, es un vibrante retrato generacional de la vida en el campo contado desde múltiples perspectivas. A medida que el choque entre tradición y modernidad se acentúa, una familia busca soluciones bajo un sol abrasador.