The Station Agent (2003)

“It’s a film about a dwarf who tries and fails to live as a modern hermit in an abandoned train depot. It received rave reviews & awards at Sundance in 2003, but somehow failed to pick up much media traction. I find myself enjoying the characters company even more, particularly Bobby Cannavale, who plays a loveable but empty-headed goof.”

Mike Osborne

Goodbye, First Love (Un amour de jeunesse) (2011)

“First love is such a universal experience that it is hard to imagine a novel way of portraying it in film. Hansen-Løve brilliantly succeeds by infusing her creative choices with a subtle blend of the essence of first love: simplicity, tenderness and emotional depth.”

Sarah-Anne Araup

Earth (1930)

“Shot in the Soviet Union in 1930, it dramatises the arrival of new machinery and collective farms to a Ukrainian village and the class conflicts that soon arise. Earth is such an extraordinary visual experience, all the more remarkable given its origins in a time when Soviet cultural freedoms were being vigorously suppressed.”

Jacob Osborne

Orlando (1992)

‘Same person. No difference at all. Just a different sex.’ An adaptation of Woolf’s novel, Orlando follows the life of a boy who is born into Elizabethan England and lives through 400 years of human history, mysteriously transforming into a woman at age 30. It’s a must for anyone interested in gender issues. Visually luscious, relishing the wealth and variety of historic detail without feeling tokenistic.”

Millie Foy