Ten great films.....

While the world is under house arrest the Laboratory will remind you each week of ten great films to watch. Starting here and in no particular order or genre….there’s something for everyone!

Carravagio directed by Derek Jarman

Available on DVD through www.umbrellaent.com.au Derek Jarman struggled for seven years to bring his portrait of the great Renaissance painter Michelangelo Caravaggio to the screen, producing a critically acclaimed masterwork and powerful meditation on sexuality, criminality and art. Told in flashback as the artist (Nigel Terry - Troy) lies dying in poverty, the film brilliantly recreates the look and colour of Caravaggio's original paintings while exploring the homoerotic subtext of his work. Speculating on the artist's relationship with his model Ranuccio (Sean Bean - Lord of the Rings), the film explores a vicious love triangle also involving the model's wife, played brilliantly by Tilda Swinton (Orlando, Michael Clayton) Jarman's muse and collaborator throughout several films, this was Swinton's first feature role. With luscious production design it was the first major film production for award-winning costume designer Sandy Powell (The Aviator, Skakespeare in Love) the dazzling Caravaggio is arguably the most accessible of Jarman's films.

The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover directed by Peter Greenaway

Renowned culinary expert Mitchell Davis considers the power and history of food on film in the context of Peter Greenaway's controversial classic about food,...

Old Boy by Park Chan-wook

Original trailer - for info only. Will gladly remove if copyright holder objects.

Mulholland Drive directed by David Lynch

Beautiful, bizarre and strangely addictive, the film begins as a botched hit which results in the meeting of brunette amnesiac Rita (Laura Harring - Love in ...

Persona directed by Ingmar Bergman

Persona (1966) Trailer http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060827/ Director: Ingmar Bergman Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand

The Devils directed by Ken Russell

In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs with...

Contempt directed by Jean Luc Godard

Título original: Le mépris Año: 1963 Duración: 102 min. País: Francia Director: Jean-Luc Godard Guión: Jean-Luc Godard (Novela: Alberto Moravia) Música: Geor...

La Ciénaga directed by lucrecia Martel

One of the all-time great debut films.

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night directed by Ana Lily Amirpour

In theaters November 21st. Learn more at: http://www.agirlwalkshome.com The first Iranian Vampire Western ever made, Ana Lily Amirpour's debut basks in the s...

Aguirre, the Wrath of God directed by Werner Herzog

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