FilmsOctobreLike this

Films like Octobre.

Octobre (1993) reads as Sombre, measured, measured short / moscow, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Letter to an Angel (1994) poster
1. Letter to an Angel1994

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Bagh Bahadur (1989) poster
2. Bagh Bahadur1989

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dolls (Kitano) (2002) poster
3. Dolls (Kitano)2002

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Walls (1990) poster
4. Walls1990

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Three Brothers (1994) poster
5. Three Brothers1994

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Whispering Sands (2001) poster
6. Whispering Sands2001

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Mossane (1996) poster
7. Mossane1996

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Hyenas (1996) poster
8. Hyenas1996

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Dolls (2002) poster
9. Dolls2002

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dance of Dust (1992) poster
10. Dance of Dust1992

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Ice Palace (1987) poster
11. The Ice Palace1987

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Landscape in the Mist (1988) poster
12. Landscape in the Mist1988

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

These are Octobre’s neighbours — where are yours?

Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.

Find my film for tonight — 60 sec →