Released in 2006, Old Joy was a unique and utterly compelling little film in which either nothing happens, or a lot happens – depending entirely on your personal interpretation.

While it may not be destined for the body horror hall of fame, Alain Robak’s 1990 gorefest Baby Blood at least plays in the same ballpark as Cronenberg.

The story of an ambitious young ingenue who slowly ingratiates herself into the circle of an aging Broadway legend and eventually attempts to supplant her, All About Eve is a thematic gold mine, tackling the cutthroat vanity of celebrity life, the pressures put on women as they age, and the complex dynamics of personal and professional relationships.

One can argue Un Flic (A Cop) is the most Melville of all his late-period gangster films.

It’s odd that Universal International would release such a flagrant, B-grade ripoff of The Big Heat the following year in the form of Naked Alibi.

Tense and grimy, It Always Rains on Sunday has grown in prominence over the decades; once little more than a lesser-known Ealing, it’s become of the best-regarded British noirs of all time.

The fourth of five Westerns made by director Anthony Mann and actor Jimmy Stewart for Universal International between 1950 and 1955, The Far Country could be more pedantically characterized as a Northern.

Bava’s sense of color, lovingly displayed in this restoration, is revelatory, even proto-psychedelic.

Alphaville has had a fascinating and enduring legacy.