Jacques Rivette’s 1974 mindfuck film marvel Céline and Julie Go Boating is an eccentric anomaly: bohemian, byzantine, and wonderfully insane.

The atmosphere of browbeaten dread and mounting terror overwhelms and transforms The Night of the Hunter into a surrealist standard. It’s no wonder that modern innovators such as the Coen Brothers, Spike Lee, David Lynch, Terrence Malick, and Martin Scorsese cite the film as a major influence.

The eventful film year of 1960 saw Michelangelo Antonioni’s showpiece ‘L’Avventura’ released alongside such classics as Fellini’s ‘La Dolce Vita’ and Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’, as well as Bergman’s ‘The Virgin Spring’. Film critic Shane Scott-Travis boldly asserts that ‘L’Avventura’ has aged better than any of them.

Like a favourite record, Wim Wenders’ classic film ‘Paris, Texas’ improves with revisitation, becoming more intimate as it fastens itself to you, and you to it.

There really isn’t another movie like ‘The Umbrellas of Cherbourg’. Jacques Demy’s 1964 masterpiece is a simple story of love unfulfilled, yes, but it was also a groundbreaking film that has stood the test of time.