Pan Pan

Beloved songwriter and comic artist, Pan Pan, sits in the Guest Picks chair. How well does he remember his favourite movies? Would he act in a movie for Yorgos Gousis? Find out the answers in an episode that hits us "like electric waves on the dance floor".

Save this Palme d’Or winner for a day when you can’t see the point of going on. Kiarostami puts a man who has decided to die behind the wheel, and out of his long drive he builds one of the most moving films about what keeps us alive. Afterwards, even cherries taste different. — Mr Badii has decided to kill himself, and all he needs is someone to come at dawn and bury him. So he drives the hills outside Tehran, offering the job to strangers he picks up. A young soldier bolts and a seminarian refuses, but a man who works at the Natural History Museum says yes, for reasons of his own, and then he starts to talk. — Palme d'Or | Cannes Film Festival | 1997

Warm colours, Mozart and pastoral calm fill the sunniest film about infidelity ever made, which Agnès Varda shot just before May 1968. Her hero is a man who falls for a second woman and begins to believe he can add a new happiness to his life without losing the first. — A young carpenter has a comfortable, peaceful life, a lovely wife and two wonderful children. He’s happily married, but on a work trip he meets another woman and they begin an affair. His wife can tell something has put him in an unusually good mood, and since he can’t bring himself to lie to her, he tells her the truth. Nothing has changed between them, he promises. — Special Prize of the Jury | Berlin International Film Festival | 1965

In his third feature film, the hitherto enfant terrible of French-language cinema Xavier Dolan delivers a baroque melodrama of epic proportions about the entropic power of love and the complex journey of transition, full of color, music and emotion. — A young philologist suddenly announces to his partner that he wants to dress in women's clothes, but he does not want to divorce her under any circumstances. Against all social norms, the two will fight to stay together. — Best Actress (Suzanne Clément) - Un Certain Regard | Cannes Film Festival | 2012 Queer Palm | Cannes Film Festival | 2012 Best Canadian Feature | Toronto Film Festival | 2012

The cinematic triumph of Cinobo-favourite Bong Joon-ho. A stylistic apotheosis filled with suspense and a piercing social commentary that defies genre. Rightful winner of the Palm d’ Or and the Best Picture Oscar that made Academy history. — The Kims are a loving family, but they are all unemployed and their future seems gloom. The son of the family finds a job as a private tutor and can finally hope for a steady income. Carrying the whole family’s expectations, he goes to interview at the Park household – owners of an international tech company – where he will meet the lady of the house. After that first meeting, a cascade of unfortunate events begins. — Best Film | Oscars | 2020 Best Director | Oscars | 2020 Best Original Screenplay | Oscars | 2020 Best International Feature Film | Oscars | 2020 Palme d'Or | Cannes Film Festival | 2019