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The Best Films of the 1950s
The greatest films of the 1950s, from the classic Hollywood musicals to Japan’s Golden Age of cinema.
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Blue Moon (2025)
Richard Linklater sensitively bares the lonely, eccentric soul of Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart in Blue Moon, locating him on the opening night of his old creative partner’s newest hit, and tracing the heartbreak, jealousy, and self-sabotage that send him spiralling towards oblivion.
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Train Dreams (2025)
Everything that the devoted family man of Train Dreams holds dear is a transient heartbeat in the grand scheme of history, and Clint Bentley’s impressionistic lens joins him in tenderly contemplating its slow surrender to time, marrying curatorial precision with a luminous, transcendent spirit.
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Jay Kelly (2025)
Memory is the only projector that Hollywood celebrity Jay Kelly willingly surrenders to in his twilight years, and as he watches those frames of his regretful past unspool, Noah Baumbach composes a bittersweet reflection on the fragility of selfhood beneath the glare of stardom.
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Hamnet (2025)
There is no reading of Shakespeare’s plays more intimate than that which considers his grief over his son’s passing, and as Chloé Zhao lyrically visualises this transmutation of pain into poetry in Hamnet, the very act of storytelling bridges the chasm between life and death.
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Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)
As James Cameron continues to forge his epic saga of spirituality and survival through the elements, Avatar: Fire and Ash tests the threads of tradition which binds its clans together, drawing dangerous new alliances that ignite a crucible of faith, fury, and primordial spectacle.
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Sentimental Value (2025)
Nora’s scepticism towards reconciling with her estranged father may be justified in Sentimental Value, yet the power of healing through artistic collaboration is not to be underestimated, as Joachim Trier peels back layers of generational trauma to expose the tender vulnerability beneath.