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Great Expectations (1946)
Wealth and status may remain the root of misery in this adaptation of Great Expectations, yet in tempering Charles Dickens’ grievances with class oppression, David Lean evocatively stylises its haunted, gothic melancholy and romanticism.
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2001 in Cinema
Peter Jackson launches an epic fantasy for a generation, David Lynch deconstructs the illusory promises of Hollywood, and animations refract identity through an assortment of surreal dreamscapes.
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The Road Home (1999)
The Road Home may be one man’s second-hand account of his parents’ love story, yet in reconstructing memories from older generations who laid the foundations of family, Zhang Yimou elevates its historic, private romance into communal legend.
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J’Accuse (1919)
Across years of war, jealousy, and heartbreak in J’Accuse, Abel Gance chronicles a fated love triangle that collides with history’s brutal upheavals, bitterly reproaching the living and mourning an innocence that this heedless, bloodstained world may never recover.
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2000 in Cinema
Wong Kar-wai composes an exquisitely controlled expression of longing and restraint between neighbours, Christopher Nolan fractures an amnesiac’s memory into a backwards-running puzzle, and Ridley Scott resurrects the swords-and-sandals epic.
