In the hands of Wim Wenders and his star, Kōji Yakusho, this film about a man whose days are all seemingly the same as he goes about his job cleaning toilets in Tokyo becomes a beautiful, gently uplifting Zen meditation on fulfilment, meaning and simple joys.
This must-see 1953 classic remains one of the most suspenseful films ever made. And we’re screening it in a brand-new 4k remastered version. Yves Montand stars, as two teams of desperate men in South America compete to be the first to deliver a truckload of highly unstable nitro-glycerine, along a route with the potential for obliteration at every turn.
A film for people who love films, from Wong Kar-wai, ‘the most romantic filmmaker in the world’. Stylised, stylish and seductive for those prepared to surrender to it, this is the seemingly separate but actually cleverly connected and mirrored stories of two lovelorn cops in bustling, colourful Hong Kong, before it was handed back to China.
Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster were never better — and that’s saying something — brilliantly cast against type as a desperate small-time press agent and the monstrous gossip columnist who can make or break lives with a line.
