The Movies canon

Sourced and screened.

Every film chosen by hand and annotated for why it matters.
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Belle de Jour

Directed by Luis Bunuel
1967

Bunuel's most seductive film, and the role Deneuve never quite escaped: a bored bourgeois wife takes afternoon work in a brothel, and her fantasies blur in without warning.

★ 7.5

Moonlight

Directed by Barry Jenkins
2016

One life told in three chapters by three different actors, and shot in blues and purples so tender the film almost hums: nothing about it looks like anything else.

★ 8.4