Director - Dario Argento
Argento’s first stone-cold classic, is this tale about a jazzer (David Hemmings) who witnesses one of his neighbours being offed, and sets about trying to figure out what the heck is going on. Argento makes a huge leap forward with his cinematography with elaborate tracking shots and incredible close ups. If you’re new to the big world of Argento you could do worse than starting here. Gorgeous score by Goblin too.
Director - Louis Malle
Bonkers Louis Malle film set in a not so distant future where the war of the sexes (literally) is in full swing. Lily (an Alice in Wonderland type) stumbles across a farm (Malle’s own county pile in fact), and ends up being drawn into the weird goings on inside. Malle made the film up as he went along and it shows, there’s almost no dialogue and what little there is emanates from the mouth of the various animals rather than the humans. Best approached as the sort of film you'll probably only ever watch the one time. But if you're a fan of Malle then it at least deserves that one viewing.
