| |
|
101
▲
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|
102 |
|
103 |
|
Together |
|
Lukas Moodysson
(106) |
 |
| • Tillsammans
(original title) |
|
2000, 106m, Col, Sweden-Denmark-Italy, Drama-Comedy |
| "Moodysson
captures exactly the preening narcissism and gumption of these
frazzled would-be revolutionaries trying to wriggle out of their
bourgeois straitjackets." - Peter Rainer, New York Magazine |
|
Selected by Kenneth Turan, Owen Gleiberman, David Ansen, David
Edelstein, Paul Malcolm. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Gosford Park |
|
Robert Altman (86) |
 |
| 2001, 137m, Col,
UK-USA, Comedy-Mystery-Drama |
|
"It ranks among
Robert Altman's best work ever,
and that its many satisfactions derive in large part from a
superbly written screenplay by Julian Fellowes that has no equal
this year." -
Jonathan Foreman, New York Post |
|
Selected by
Michael Wilmington, Philip French, Peter
Rainer, David Edelstein, Jay Carr. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Inland Empire |
|
David
Lynch (91) |
 |
| 2006, 172m, Col-BW,
USA-Poland-France, Drama-Mystery |
|
"It is
Lynch's most experimental endeavor in the 30 years since
Eraserhead that it will do nothing to draw new fans to the
director's work and that, after two viewings, I cannot wait to
see it again." -
Scott Foundas, LA Weekly |
| Selected by J. Hoberman,
Peter Keough, Manohla Dargis, Ed Gonzalez, Glenn Kenny. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
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|
104 |
|
105 |
|
106 |
|
Volver |
|
Pedro
Almodóvar
(88) |
 |
| 2006, 121m, Col,
Spain, Comedy-Drama |
|
"Almodóvar
is still one of the few directors worth watching just for how he
uses color on the screen. But the pleasures have always run much
deeper, and now they run deeper still." -
Keith Phipps, The Onion A.V. Club |
| Selected by David Ansen,
Molly Haskell, Stephen Holden, A.O. Scott, Peter Travers. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Bad Education |
|
Pedro
Almodóvar (93) |
 |
| • La Mala
educación (original title) |
| 2004, 105m, Col,
Spain, Thriller-Drama |
| "Bad Education is a
voluptuous experience that invites you to gorge on its beauty
and vitality, although it has perhaps the darkest ending of any
of the films by the Spanish writer and director." -
Stephen Holden, New York Times |
|
Selected by Carrie Rickey,
Stephen Holden, Wesley Morris,
David Edelstein, Richard Corliss. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Black Book |
|
Paul Verhoeven (90) |
 |
| • Zwartboek
(original title) |
| 2006,
146m, Col, Germany-Netherlands-UK-Belgium, War-Thriller |
|
"Like much of
Verhoeven's best work, it's shamelessly melodramatic,
but in its dark moral complexities it puts Schindler's List
to shame." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader |
| Selected by
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Kent Jones, Dennis Lim, Tom Charity, Joshua
Land. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
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|
|
|
107 |
|
108
▲
|
|
109 |
|
Gangs of New
York |
|
Martin Scorsese (98) |
 |
| 2002, 166m, Col,
USA, Drama-Crime-Action |
| "A grand achievement in
history and anthropology, supporting its ambition and scope with
a sumptuous re-creation of the period and an immediacy that
allows a forgotten past to barrel into the present." -
Scott Tobias, The Onion |
| Selected by Carrie Rickey,
Kent Jones, A.O. Scott, Stephen Holden, F.X. Feeney. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Bowling for
Columbine |
|
Michael Moore
(117) |
 |
|
2002, 120m, Col, USA, Documentary-Comedy |
|
"Moore's
best movie, and one of the most blisteringly effective polemics
and documentaries ever." - Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune |
|
Selected by Owen Gleiberman, Ed Halter, Scott Foundas, Edward
Crouse, Mike Clark. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Colossal
Youth |
|
Pedro Costa
(94) |
 |
| • Juventude
Em Marcha (original title) |
| 2006,
155m, Col, France-Portugal-Switzerland, Drama |
| "Beautifully
photographed, this elliptical, sometime confounding, often
mysterious and wholly beguiling mixture of fiction and
nonfiction looks and sounds as if it were made on another
planet. And, in some respects, it was." -
Manohla Dargis, New York Times |
|
Selected by
Dennis Lim, Berenice Reynaud, Sean
Axmaker, Richard Brody, Daryl Chin. |
|
Amazon
IMDB |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
110 |
|
111 |
|
112 |
|
The Piano
Teacher |
|
Michael Haneke (95) |
 |
| • La Pianiste
(original title) |
| 2001, 130m, Col,
Austria-France-Germany, Drama |
| "At once an emotional thriller
and a domestic horror movie -- a woman's picture with a
vengeance, in which the bloodletting is kept to a minimum, and
ends up all the more powerful and profound for it." -
Manohla Dargis, LA Weekly |
| Selected by Michael Atkinson,
Manohla Dargis, Ernest Hardy, Scott Foundas, Mick LaSalle. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Wonder Boys |
|
Curtis
Hanson (96) |
 |
| 2000, 112m, Col,
USA-Germany-UK-Japan, Drama-Comedy |
| "Michael Douglas digs deep
and delivers one of his best performances in Wonder Boys -- a
comic dazzler of roguish wit and touching gravity that is driven
by characters, not jokes." - Peter Travers, Rolling Stone |
| Selected by Dave Kehr, Roger
Ebert, David Ansen, Amy Taubin, Michael Atkinson. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Eureka |
|
Shinji Aoyama (97) |
 |
| • Yurîka
(original title) |
| 2000, 217m, Col-BW,
Japan-France, Drama |
| "Builds steadily through a
series of masterfully orchestrated modulations to a final act
without shattering revelations or lofty dramatic peaks but with
a quiet, formidable power." - David Rooney, Variety |
| Selected by Dave Kehr, David
Sterritt, David Ansen, Michael Atkinson, Jay Carr. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
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|
113 |
|
114 |
|
115 |
|
The Hours |
|
Stephen Daldry (109) |
 |
|
2002, 114m, Col, USA, Drama |
|
"Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore bring dignity
and Oscar-worthy performances to The Hours, a lovingly
crafted meditation on death, loss and literature." - Andrew
O'Hehir, Salon |
|
Selected by David Sterritt, Kenneth Turan, Mick LaSalle, Stephen
Holden, Andrew O'Hehir. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The Triplets
of Belleville |
|
Sylvain Chomet (99) |
 |
| • Les
Triplettes de Belleville (original title) |
| 2003, 80m, Col,
France-Canada-Belgium-UK, Comedy-Animated-Adventure |
| "A madcap milestone. Not
since Disney's 75-minute Alice In Wonderland (1951) has an
animator filled the screen with dazzling flights of random
invention that manage to hook up into a swift, brief narrative." -
Michael Sragow, Baltimore Sun |
| Selected by Michael Atkinson,
David Sterritt, Gerald Peary, Peter Rainer, A.O. Scott. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Sexy Beast |
|
Jonathan Glazer (100) |
 |
| 2000, 88m, Col,
UK-Spain-USA, Drama-Crime-Comedy |
|
"Carries so much impacted menace
and visual narrative gamesmanship that it brought back some of
the excitement I felt nearly a decade ago watching
Quentin Tarantino's
Reservoir Dogs." -
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly |
| Selected by Owen Gleiberman,
Peter Rainer, David Edelstein, Elvis Mitchell, A.O. Scott. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
116
New
|
|
117
New
|
|
118
New
|
|
Silent
Light |
|
Carlos
Reygadas |
 |
| • Stellet
licht (original title) |
|
2007, 136m, Col, Mexico-France-Netherlands, Drama |
|
"This is a
deeply considered, formally accomplished, beautiful-looking and
unexpectedly gripping film from a director making a giant leap
into the first rank of world cinema." -
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian |
| Selected by
Steve Erickson, Mike D'Angelo, Patrick McGavin, Melissa
Anderson, Michael Koresky. |
|
Amazon
Reverse Shot |
|
|
|
Synecdoche,
New York |
|
Charlie
Kaufman |
 |
|
2008, 124m, Col, USA, Comedy-Drama |
|
"To say that
Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York is one of the best
films of the year or even one closest to my heart is such a
pathetic response to its soaring ambition that I might as well
pack it in right now." -
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times |
| Selected by
Phillip Lopate, Glenn Kenny, Peter Brunette, Noel Murray, Nathan
Rabin. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Let the
Right One In |
|
Tomas
Alfredson |
 |
| • Lĺt den
rätte komma in (original title) |
|
2008, 114m, Col, Sweden, Drama-Horror-Romance |
|
"In the basest
of terms, a horror flick. But it's also a spectacularly moving
and elegant movie, and to dismiss it into genre-hood, to
mentally stuff it into the horror pigeonhole, is to overlook a
remarkable film." -
John Anderson, Washington Post |
| Selected by
John Anderson, Gerald Peary, Tom Charity, David Sterritt, Ed
Gonzalez. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
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|
|
|
119 |
|
120 |
|
121 |
|
Goodbye,
Dragon Inn |
|
Tsai Ming-Liang
(101) |
 |
| • Bu san
(original title) |
|
2003, 82m, Col, Taiwan, Drama-Comedy |
|
"Has a quiet, cumulative magic, whose source is hard to
identify. Its simple, meticulously composed frames are full of
mystery and feeling; it's an action movie that stands perfectly
still." - A.O. Scott, New York Times |
|
Selected by John Anderson, Berenice Reynaud, Dennis Lim, Chris
Fujiwara, J. Hoberman. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Last Days |
|
Gus Van Sant
(103) |
 |
|
2004, 96m, Col, USA, Drama |
|
"What Last Days offers is a blank and narrative-free, but
pitch-perfect, dreamscape on which to project your own personal
ruminations on Kurt, fame, whatever, nevermind. If you have
none, you're on your own." - Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times |
|
Selected by Peter Keough, Dennis Lim, Ed Halter, Phillip Lopate,
Ed Park. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The Son |
|
Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
(108) |
 |
| • Le Fils
(original title) |
|
2002, 103m, Col, Belgium-France, Drama |
| "By
the climax, we can hardly breathe -- The outcome is less
important than our utter and complete empathy with this man. As
we await what he does, we breathe with him, in and out. This is
an astonishing movie." - David Edelstein, Slate |
|
Selected by Kent Jones, Dennis Lim, Roger Ebert, Geoff Andrew,
J.Hoberman. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
122 |
|
123
New
|
|
124 |
|
Platform |
|
Zhang Ke Jia
(104) |
 |
| • Zhantai
(original title) |
| 2000, 154m, Col,
Hong Kong-Japan-France-Netherlands-Switzerland, Drama |
| "One of the richest films
of the past decade... Platform looks like a documentary,
but it's Pop Art as history." -
J. Hoberman, Village Voice |
| Selected by Manohla Dargis,
Berenice Reynaud, Chris Fujiwara, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Michael
Atkinson. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
In the City
of Sylvia |
|
José Luis
Guerín |
 |
| • En la
ciudad de Sylvia (original title) |
|
2007, 84m, Col, Spain, Drama |
|
"The film is
built on sensuous interplays between people and objects, reality
and representation, implying something profound is at risk here,
and the simultaneous thrill and danger of every scene nearly
stops the heart." -
Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine |
| Selected by
John Anderson, Gerald Peary, Tom Charity, David Sterritt, Ed
Gonzalez. |
|
Amazon
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
Kinsey |
|
Bill Condon (105) |
 |
|
2004, 118m, Col, Germany-USA-UK, Drama-Biography |
| "A
stupendously moving film. Neeson nails Kinsey's rock-hard
decency and fragile ego, and Linney abets him beautifully: There
isn't an actress in movies right now who's more simply alive." -
David Edelstein, Slate |
|
Selected by Owen Gleiberman, David Ehrenstein, Richard Schickel,
A.O. Scott, Stephen Holden. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
125 |
|
126 |
|
127
New
|
|
Eastern
Promises |
|
David
Cronenberg
(111) |
 |
|
2007, 100m, Col, UK-Canada-USA, Crime-Drama-Thriller |
| "A
rhapsodic movie directed with considerable formal intelligence
and brooding power from an original screenplay by Steve Knight,
Eastern Promises is very much a companion to A History
of Violence." - J. Hoberman, Village Voice |
|
Selected by Peter Keough, Berenice Reynaud, Stephen Garrett,
Robert Horton, Kristin M. Jones. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Bloody
Sunday |
|
Paul Greengrass
(114) |
 |
|
2001, 110m, Col, UK-Ireland, Historical-Drama |
|
"For the viewer, the miracle of Bloody Sunday is that
firm moral judgment can exist side by side with a wild and
bitter exhilaration in the sheer physicality of violence." -
David Denby, The New Yorker |
|
Selected by Peter Keough, Gavin Smith, Kenneth Turan, Scott
Foundas, Elvis Mitchell. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The Lives
of Others |
|
Florian
Henckel von Donnersmarck |
 |
| • Das Leben
der Anderen (original title) |
|
2006, 138m, Col, Germany, Drama |
|
"The easy,
complacent distance that informs much historical filmmaking is
almost entirely absent from this supremely intelligent,
unfailingly honest movie." -
A.O. Scott, The New York Times |
| Selected by
Graham Fuller, Kirk Honeycutt, Godfrey Cheshire, Saul
Austerlitz, Mark Holcomb. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
128 |
|
129 |
|
130 |
|
Erin
Brockovich |
|
Steven Soderbergh
(107) |
 |
|
2000, 130m, Col, USA, Drama |
|
"The kind of stand-up-and-cheer movie Hollywood is supposed to
have forgotten how to make." - Lou Lumenick, New York Post |
|
Selected by Kenneth Turan, Gavin Smith, David Ansen, Mike Clark,
F.X. Feeney. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Kill Bill Vol.
2 |
|
Quentin Tarantino (115) |
 |
| 2004, 136m, Col-BW,
USA-China, Thriller-Drama-Action |
|
"This installment delivers
more of the pleasures that made
Tarantino the wunderkind of 90s cinema: offbeat scumbag
characters, narrative sleight of hand, an extraordinary visual
sense, and affectionate genre pillaging." - J.R. Jones,
Chicago Reader |
| Selected by Ty Burr, Roger Ebert,
Manohla Dargis, Scott Foundas, David Chute. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Spellbound |
|
Jeffrey Blitz (120) |
 |
|
2002, 96m, Col, USA, Documentary |
| "At
its most unsettling level, Spellbound asks us to consider
what words are for and what childhood should be. It's as
profound as anything you'll see this year, and, yes, it should
have won the Oscar." - Ty Burr, Boston Globe |
|
Selected by Ty Burr, A.O. Scott, Wesley Morris, Stephanie
Zacharek, Charles Taylor. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
131 |
|
132 |
|
133 |
|
Offside |
|
Jafar Panahi (110) |
 |
| 2006,
93m, Col, Iran, Comedy-Drama-Sports |
|
"The masterly
Panahi concocts a spellbinding, often corrosively
and/or warmly funny story in which love of both country and
sport tries to, but doesn't quite, transcend dogmatic and
ingrained difference." -
Glenn Kenny, Premiere |
| Selected by
J. Hoberman, Dennis Lim, David D'Arcy, Bilge Ebiri, Ed Gonzalez. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
In America |
|
Jim
Sheridan (112) |
 |
| 2003, 105m, Col,
USA-Ireland-UK, Drama |
| "In America is not
unsentimental about its new arrivals (the movie has a warm heart
and frankly wants to move us), but it is perceptive about the
countless ways in which it is hard to be poor and a stranger in
a new land." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times |
| Selected by Michael Sragow,
J. Hoberman, Michael Wilmington, Roger Ebert, David Ansen. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Notre musique |
|
Jean-Luc Godard (113) |
 |
| 2004, 80m, Col,
France-Switzerland, Drama |
| "Visually sublime and
intellectually dense, this is one of the extremely rare movies
that prove cinema can be as complex and profound as the very
greatest art works in any form." - David Sterritt,
Christian Science Monitor |
| Selected by Gerald Peary,
Chris Fujiwara, David Sterritt, J. Hoberman, Kent Jones. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
134 |
|
135 |
|
136 |
|
Ŕ ma soeur! |
|
Catherine Breillat
(123) |
 |
| • Fat Girl
(English title) |
|
2001, 86m, Col, France-Italy, Drama |
| "As
fascinating as it is discomfiting and as intelligent as it is
primal. From first shot to last, France's foremost bad girl has
made an extremely good movie -- and maybe even a great one." -
J. Hoberman, Village Voice |
|
Selected by Amy Taubin, B. Ruby Rich, J. Hoberman, Michael
Atkinson, David Ansen. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The Man
Without a Past |
|
Aki Kaurismäki
(116) |
 |
| • Mies vailla
menneisyyttä (original title) |
|
2002, 97m, Col, Finland-Germany-France, Romance-Drama-Comedy |
|
"Kaurismäki
is Finland's greatest filmmaker, and never has he more artfully
balanced his patented blend of deadpan humor, low-key melodrama,
and toe-tapping music." - David Sterritt, Christian Science
Monitor |
|
Selected by Chris Fuijiwara, David Sterritt, A.O. Scott, Chris
Chang, Alice Lovejoy. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Fahrenheit
9/11 |
|
Michael
Moore (124) |
 |
| 2004, 122m, Col,
USA, Documentary-War |
|
"Michael
Moore in Fahrenheit 9/11 has launched an unapologetic
attack, both savage and savvy, on an administration he feels has
betrayed the best of America and done extensive damage in the
world." -
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times |
| Selected by David Ehrenstein,
David Sterritt, Kenneth Turan, A.O. Scott, Peter Travers. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
137 |
|
138 |
|
139 |
|
Chicago |
|
Rob Marshall (133) |
 |
| 2002, 113m, Col,
USA-Germany, Musical-Crime-Comedy |
| "Isn't just the most
explosively entertaining movie musical in a couple of decades.
It's going to be the most influential: the one that inspires the
rebirth of the Hollywood musical." -
David Edelstein, Slate |
| Selected by Michael Sragow,
Mick LaSalle, Ernest Hardy, David Edelstein, Stephen Holden. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Once |
|
John Carney
(128) |
 |
|
2007, 87m, Col, Ireland-USA, Drama-Musical-Romance |
|
"The music is so rich and completely satisfying and the
characters so appealing Once makes us believe that this
is all happening right in front of our eyes." - Kenneth Turan,
Los Angeles Times |
|
Selected by Tom Charity, Michael Atkinson, Aaron
Hillis, Thomas Doherty, Stephen Garrett. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Black Hawk
Down |
|
Ridley
Scott (130) |
 |
| 2001, 144m, Col,
USA, War-Drama-Action |
| "Rivets our interest for
its entire lengthy running time. And it does this without any of
the usual war movie clichés, false heroics, barracks-humor
nonsense or grandstanding absurdities." -
William Arnold, Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Selected by Richard Schickel,
Kenneth Turan, Roger Ebert, Richard Corliss, Jack Mathews. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
140 |
|
141
New
|
|
142 |
|
What Time
is it There? |
|
Tsai Ming-Liang
(118) |
 |
| • Ni na bian
ji dian (original title) |
|
2001, 116m, Col, France-Taiwan-Italy, Drama |
|
"This wonderful, one-of-a-kind movie hops from Taiwan to
France, from tragedy to deadpan comedy and, in its mysterious
conclusion, from the worldly to the otherworldly." - David
Ansen, Newsweek |
|
Selected by Chris Fujiwara, Michael Atkinson, J. Hoberman, Elvis
Mitchell, Alice Lovejoy. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Rachel
Getting Married |
|
Jonathan Demme |
 |
|
2008, 113m, Col, USA, Drama-Romance |
|
"A friend asked: "Wouldn't you love to attend a wedding
like that?" In a way, I felt I had. Yes, I began to feel
absorbed in the experience. A few movies can do that, can slip
you out of your mind and into theirs." - Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times |
| Selected by
Mike D'Angelo, Ed Gonzalez, Noel Murray, Matt Singer, Nathan
Rabin. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Little Miss
Sunshine |
|
Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris (119) |
 |
| 2006, 102m, Col,
USA, Comedy-Drama |
| "This indie, a sweet, tart and
smart satire about a family of losers in a world obsessed with
winning, is an authentic crowd pleaser. There's been no more
satisfying American comedy this year." -
David Ansen, Newsweek |
| Selected by David Ansen, Joe
Morgenstern, Peter Travers, Stephen Holden, Claudia Puig. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
143 |
|
144
New
|
|
145 |
|
Maria Full
of Grace |
|
Joshua Marston (121) |
 |
|
2003, 100m, Col, USA-Colombia-Ecuador, Drama-Crime |
|
"Moreno, with her wide, watchful eyes, owns the camera - and the
film. Her performance is perfectly natural and profoundly
moving. Maria Full of Grace is a remarkable picture, full
of suspense and discovery." - Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer |
|
Selected by John Anderson, Owen Gleiberman, Richard Schickel,
Stephen Holden, Kevin Thomas. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Hunger |
|
Steve
McQueen |
 |
|
2008, 96m, Col, UK-Ireland, Drama-Historical |
|
"Hunger is extreme cinema for an extreme subject. It
is outstandingly made; long wordless sequences are composed with
judgment and flair and expository dialogue scenes are
confidently positioned. It surely confirms McQueen as a real
film-maker." - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian |
| Selected by
Berenice Reynaud, Graham Fuller, Gerald Peary, Dennis Lim,
Cynthia Fuchs. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Regular
Lovers |
|
Philippe Garrel (122) |
 |
| • Les Amants
réguliers (original title) |
| 2004,
178m, BW, France-Italy, Drama |
| "While
the film’s desperately sad finale indicates that
Philippe
Garrel knows the truth of '68 better than most and
might have suffered a crisis in faith in the years since, this
magnificent film is itself proof that all was not lost." -
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times |
| Selected by
Kent Jones, Michael Atkinson, Dennis Lim, Manohla Dargis, Nathan
Lee. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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146 |
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147 |
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148 |
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Spider |
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David Cronenberg
(129) |
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2002, 98m, Col, Canada-UK-Japan-France, Thriller-Drama |
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"Deliciously wicked, strangely poetic portrait (adapted by
Patrick McGrath from his own novel) of a schizophrenic man at
once tyrannized and elevated by oedipal terrors." - Ella Taylor,
LA Weekly |
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Selected by Jason Anderson, V.A. Musetto, Glenn Kenny, Graham
Fuller, Chris Fujiwara. |
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Amazon
metacritic |
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The Intruder |
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Claire
Denis (141) |
 |
| • L'Intrus
(original title) |
| 2004, 130m, Col,
France-Korea, Drama |
| "Exhilarating and
exhausting, the kind of picture you don't bounce back from
immediately. Yet its elusiveness is the very source of its
poetic energy." - Stephanie Zacharek, Salon |
| Selected by Dennis Lim, Kent
Jones, Scott Foundas, Robert Koehler, Leslie Camhi. |
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Amazon
metacritic |
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| Head-On |
| Fatih
Akin (143) |
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| • Gegen die
Wand (original title) |
| 2003, 121m, Col,
Germany, Romance-Drama |
| "In its
breathlessly claustrophobic way the movie is vital and
passionate, and lit with a lyric beauty that washes over love
scenes and violent acts alike." - Ella Taylor, LA Weekly |
| Selected by
David Ansen, Ty Burr, Peter Keough, David Ehrenstein, Wesley
Morris. |
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Amazon
metacritic |
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149 |
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150 |
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Werckmeister
Harmonies |
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Béla Tarr (125) |
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| •
Werckmeister harmóniák (original title) |
| 2000, 145m, BW,
Hungary-Germany-France-Switzerland-Italy, Drama |
| "Mysterious, poetic and
allusive, Werckmeister Harmonies beckons filmgoers who
complain of the vapidity of Hollywood movie making and yearn for
a film to ponder and debate." -
Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times |
| Selected by Manohla Dargis,
David Sterritt, Robert Sklar, J. Hoberman, Chris Fujiwara. |
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Amazon
metacritic |
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Hero |
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Zhang Yimou
(131) |
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| • Ying xiong
(original title) |
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2002, 99m, Col, Hong Kong-China, Drama-Action |
| "Hero
is a movie that lives up to all the nobility of its title, a
gift to movie audiences who cherish the opportunity to be
transported to a heretofore unimagined world and absorbed
totally into what happens there." - Chris Kaltenbach, Baltimore
Sun |
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Selected by Richard Corliss, David Edelstein, Charles Taylor,
Chris Kaltenbach, Mark Jenkins. |
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Amazon
metacritic |
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> 151-200 |
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