A psychological portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, over three days at Sandringham in 1991. Directed by Pablo Larraín and written by Steven Knight, it uses Claire Mathon’s Super 16mm cinematography, Jonny Greenwood’s dissonant score, and Kristen Stewart’s physically precise performance to render Diana’s existential crisis as sensory experience — not biography, but embodiment.
Tim Burton’s 2007 adaptation of Sweeney Todd condenses Stephen Sondheim’s stage musical into a tightly wound Gothic drama. Starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, it follows a vengeful barber and his pie-making accomplice in a blood-soaked, desaturated Victorian London. With Dariusz Wolski’s cinematography, Dante Ferretti’s production design, and a ruthlessly edited score, it sustains a tone of operatic despair — prioritising psychological intensity over narrative breadth or musical spectacle.
Chicken Run reworks the World War Two escape film as a story about hens on a Yorkshire egg farm run like a prison camp, who pin their hopes of freedom on a crash-landed American rooster claiming he can fly. Aardman's first feature, directed by Peter Lord and Nick Park, was shot in stop-motion across thirty sets over eighteen months and became the highest-grossing stop-motion film ever made, taking $225 million against a $45 million budget.