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	° JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (1975/Belgium-France) Chantal Akerman HR Slant Magazine
	° THE WELL (1951/USA) Leo Popkin & Russell Rouse R Noir of the Week
	° AS TEARS GO BY (1988/Hong Kong) Wong Kar-Wai W Shooting Down Pictures
	° THE WRESTLER (2008/USA-France) Darren Aronofsky R metacritic
	° GILLES' WIFE (2004/Belgium-France-Luxembourg) Frédéric Fonteyne W Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
	° THE UNDERCOVER MAN (1949/USA) Joseph H. Lewis W Time Out (Geoff Andrew)
	° YEAR OF THE DOG (2007/USA) Mike White A metacritic
	° PRÉNOM CARMEN (1983/France-Switzerland) Jean-Luc Godard W Time Out (Tom Milne)
	° PEOPLE ON SUNDAY (1929/Germany) Robert Siodmak & Edgar G. Ulmer R Time Out (Tony Rayns)
	° THE SADIST (1963/USA) James Landis R Ozu's World Movie Reviews
	° LE BONHEUR (1965/France) Agnès Varda HR Criterion Collection (Amy Taubin)
	° YOU AND ME (1938/USA) Fritz Lang W Time Out
	° THE DRAUGHTSMAN'S CONTRACT (1982/UK) Peter Greenaway R Senses of Cinema
	° THE HANGOVER (2009/USA) Todd Phillips W metacritic
	° KISSES (1957/Japan) Yasuzo Masumura R Chicago Reader
	° À PROPOS DE NICE (1930/France) Jean Vigo R Film Reference (Dudley Andrew)
	° THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN (1978/West Germany) Rainer Werner Fassbinder R The Guardian (Derek Malcolm)
	° THE LITTLE CHAOS (1966/West Germany) Rainer Werner Fassbinder W YouTube
	° PROJECT A (1983/Hong Kong) Jackie Chan A Love HK Film
	° IL GRIDO (1957/Italy) Michelangelo Antonioni HR Strictly Film School

	HR = Highly Recommended (masterpiece/near-masterpiece); R = Recommended (very good); W = Worth a Look (good); A = Approach with Caution (average; not great, but not a disaster); D = Dud (A disaster).
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Undercurrent... John Ford Special Section

May 2009

° Undercurrent John Ford: An Undercurrent Special Section.

° Film-Philosophy Occupy without Counting: Furtive Urbanism in the Films of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (pdf).

° Filmmaker Interview with Götz Spielmann, director of Revanche.

° GreenCine Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind: Interview with John Gianvito

° The Guardian David Thomson on Charlie Kaufman: Kaufman has a case as the most original screenwriter in America - the anarchist ready to blow convention to smithereens.

° Moving Image Source Time Regained: Remembering Julien Duvivier, a casualty of auteurism (by Michael Atkinson).

° Reverse Shot Defining a New Queer Cinema.

° Rouge Teenage Wildlife Issue.

° Screening the Past "It Has Come to My Ears": Fritz Lang’s Sound Design (by Adrian Martin).

° Slant Magazine Interview with Guillermo del Toro.

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Who are the most important film actors of all-time? Is it those who had the biggest star-power, those who won the most awards or accolades, those who grabbed the most headlines? Or, was it those performers who actually worked - for whatever reason - with the best filmmakers and subsequently ended up appearing in many of the screen's finest films?

See what They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? think, and prepare to be mildly surprised with some of our inclusions and also by many of our omissions. (Last Updated during December 2008).


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Tod Browning's "The Unknown". Number 1,000 on TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films list

LATEST VERSION | DECEMBER 2008 TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films listing has undergone its annual upgrade. It is now based on 1,825 critics/reviewers' and filmmakers' top-10 lists, culled from many sources. Additionally, we have also factored in over 900 magazine polls, film institute polls, and many other polls of interest. The net effect of all our fine-tuning over the last twelve months is that a total of 96 films have debuted or re-entered our list and, of course, 96 films have dropped out. View The 1,000 Greatest Films.

Film Noir: They Shot Dark Pictures, Didn't They?

The 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films

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