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101 |
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102 |
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103 |
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About Schmidt |
|
Alexander Payne
(98) |
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| 2002, 125m, Col,
USA, Drama-Comedy |
| Jack
Nicholson, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, Kathy Bates, June
Squibb, Howard Hesseman, Len Cariou, Harry Groener, Connie Ray,
Mark Venhuizen |
| "What gives About Schmidt
its ultimate boost, what pushes it into the stirring heavens is
Nicholson, who produces the most understated -– and one of the
most powerful –- performances of his career." -
Desson Thomson, Washington Post |
|
Selected by John Powers, Kenneth Turan, Richard Schickel,
Gerald Peary, David Ansen. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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In the Bedroom |
|
Todd Field (93) |
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| 2001, 130m, Col,
USA, Drama |
| Sissy
Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, Nick Stahl, Marisa Tomei, William
Mapother, William Wise, Celia Weston, Karen Allen, Frank T.
Wells, W. Clapham Murray |
| "The compositions, the
editing, the lighting, the sound, the music: everything seems
meticulously considered, conjuring up a hushed intimacy that
instantly sucks you in." - David Ansen, Newsweek |
|
Selected by Richard Schickel,
Kenneth Turan, Owen Gleiberman, Roger Ebert, Carrie Rickey. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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Atanarjuat |
|
Zacahrias Kunuk (94) |
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| • The Fast
Runner (alternative title); Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
(alternative title) |
| 2000, 172m, Col,
Canada, Drama |
| Natar
Ungalaaq, Sylvia Ivalu, Peter Henry Arnatsiaq, Lucy Tulugarjuk,
Madeleine Ivalu, Pauloosie Quilitalik, Eugene Ipkarnak, Pakak
Innuksuk, Neeve Irngaut, Abraham Ulayuruluk |
| "Nearly three hours long,
and deliberately paced at that, this first feature ever in the
Inuit language is a demanding experience. But the rewards for
those who risk the journey are simply extraordinary." -
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times |
|
Selected by Kenneth Turan,
Gerald Peary, Ty Burr, John Powers, A.O. Scott. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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104 |
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105 |
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106↑ |
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My Winnipeg |
|
Guy Maddin (103) |
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2007, 80m, Col-BW, Canada-USA, Drama |
| Darcy Fehr,
Ann Savage, Amy Stewart, Louis Negin, Brendan Cade, Wesley Cade,
Lou Profeta, Fred Dunsmore, Kate Yacula, Jacelyn Lobay |
|
"This haunting
phantasmagoria of a film -- comic, singular, surreal -- is not
only something no one but the Canadian director could have made,
it's also a film no one else would have even wanted to make.
Which is the heart of its appeal." -
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times |
|
Selected by
Roger Ebert, Sukhdev Sandhu, Jonathan Romney, Piers Handling,
Geoff Andrew. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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|
Traffic |
|
Steven Soderbergh (101) |
 |
| 2000, 147m, Col,
Germany-USA, Drama-Crime |
| Michael
Douglas, Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, Luis Guzman, Dennis
Quaid, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Steven Bauer, Erika Christensen,
Amy Irving, Tomas Milian |
| "It's a thriller that
really thrills, a drama that really engages, a portrait of a
world and system out of joint that is painfully convincing and
totally engrossing from the first simmering minute to the last
explosive second." -
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune |
|
Selected by
Cameron Crowe, Owen Gleiberman,
Michael Wilmington, David Sterritt, David
Edelstein. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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Up |
|
Pete Docter
(115) |
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|
2009, 96m, Col, USA, Animated-Adventure-Comedy |
| Edward
Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai, Bob Peterson, Delroy
Lindo, Jerome Ranft, John Ratzenberger, David Kaye, Elie Docter,
Jeremy Leary |
|
"Rarely has
any film, let alone an animated one powered by the logic of
dream and fantasy, been able to move so successfully -- and so
effortlessly -- through so many different kinds of cinematic
territory." - Kenneth
Turan, Los Angeles Times |
|
Selected by
Kenneth Turan, Glenn Kenny, Peter Keough, David Denby, Michael
Atkinson. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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107 |
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108 |
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109↑ |
|
Saraband |
|
Ingmar
Bergman (102) |
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| 2003, 120m, Col,
Sweden-Denmark-Norway, Drama |
| Liv Ullmann,
Erland Josephson, Borje Ahlstedt, Julia Dufvenius, Gunnel Fred |
| "With
Saraband, the great
writer-director has stepped back into the ring for one last epic
wrestle with his demons. There is, as always, no easy outcome.
But no one ever fought for higher emotional and spiritual
stakes." -
David Ansen, Newsweek |
|
Selected by Joseph
McBride, Geoff Andrew, Raymond Bellour, Gilbert Adair,
Arnaud
Desplechin. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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The Man
Without a Past |
|
Aki Kaurismäki
(107) |
 |
| • Mies vailla
menneisyyttä (original title) |
|
2002, 97m, Col, Finland-Germany-France, Romance-Drama-Comedy |
| Markku
Peltola, Kati Outinen, Juhani Niemela, Annikki Tahti, Kaija
Pakarinen, Sakari Kuosmanen, Esko Nikkari, Outi Maenpaa, Pertti
Sveholm, Anneli Sauli |
|
"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 Peter von Bagh, Vivian Sobchack, David Sterritt, Chris Fuijiwara, A.O. Scott. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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|
Shrek |
|
Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson (111) |
 |
|
2001, 90m, Col, USA-France, Animated-Fantasy-Comedy |
| Mike Myers,
Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, John Lithgow, Vincent Cassel, Peter
Dennis, Clive Pearse, Jim Cummings, Bobby Block, Michael Galasso |
|
"It is the hilarious business of
Shrek, a delightful new animated feature based on the
William Steig book, to subvert all the well-worn expectations of
its genre." - Richard Schickel, Time |
|
Selected by A.O.
Scott, Carrie Rickey, Richard Schickel, Dave Kehr, Kenneth Turan. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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110 |
|
111 |
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112 |
|
In Praise of
Love |
|
Jean-Luc Godard (104) |
 |
| • Éloge de
l'amour (original title) |
| 2001, 97m, Col-BW,
France, Drama |
| Bruno
Putzulu, Cecile Camp, Claude Baignieres, Jean Davy, Francoise
Verny, Audrey Klebaner, Jeremie Lippman, Remo Forlani, Mark
Hunter, Philippe Loyrette |
|
"Like most
Godard, it can be watched
repeatedly, always yielding new secrets and beauties. Most
profound of all, perhaps, are those incredible black-and-white
images of Paris." - Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune |
|
Selected by
Ann Hui,
Amy Taubin, Richard Brody, Bill Krohn, James Quandt. |
| See also:
1,000
Greatest Films |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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|
35 Shots of Rum |
|
Claire Denis
(106) |
 |
| • 35 rhums
(original title) |
|
2000, 89m, Col, Portugal-France, Drama-Comedy |
| Alex Descas,
Mati Diop, Nicole Dogue, Gregoire Colin, Jean-Christophe Folly,
Djedje Apali, Eriq Ebouaney, Ingrid Caven, Stephane Pocrain,
Julieth Mars Toussaint |
|
"For 20 years,
Claire Denis has been among France's foremost
filmmakers with her acute yet subtle observations of the ebbs
and flows within relationships. Her perception and understanding
seem to grow only richer over the years, and her newest film,
35 Shots of Rum, is surely one of her finest -- and thereby
one of the best films of the year." -
Kevin Thomas, Los
Angeles Times |
|
Selected by Amy
Taubin, Berenice Reynaud, Kent Jones, John Powers, Daryl Chin. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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Colossal
Youth |
|
Pedro Costa
(108) |
 |
| • Juventude
Em Marcha (original title) |
| 2006,
155m, Col, France-Portugal-Switzerland, Drama |
| Ventura,
Vanda Duarte, Beatriz Duarte, Gustavo Sumpta, Cila Cardoso,
Isabel Cardoso, Alberto 'Lento' Barros, Antonio Semedo, Paulo
Nunes, Jose Maria Pina |
| "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, Richard Brody, Bill
Krohn, Thom Andersen,
Jia Zhangke. |
|
Amazon
IMDB |
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113 |
|
114↑ |
|
115↑ |
|
Silent
Light |
|
Carlos
Reygadas (110) |
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| • Stellet
licht (original title) |
|
2007, 136m, Col, Mexico-France-Netherlands, Drama |
| Cornelio
Wall, Miriam Toews, Maria Pankratz, Peter Wall, Elisabeth Wall,
Jacobo Klassen, Irma Thiessen, Alfredo Thiessen, Daniel Thiessen,
Autghe Loewen |
|
"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
Roger Ebert, Michael Atkinson, Laurence Kardish, Piers Handling, Steve Erickson. |
|
Amazon
Reverse Shot |
|
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|
The Fog of War |
|
Errol Morris (123) |
 |
| • The Fog of
War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
(alternative title) |
| 2003, 107m, Col,
USA, Documentary |
| Robert
McNamara, Errol Morris |
|
"Errol
Morris may have been put on earth to make
The Fog of War, a
stunning portrait of Robert S. McNamara that closes a year of
outstanding nonfiction movies on a high note." - Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly |
|
Selected by Joseph
McBride, Phillip Lopate, Berenice Reynaud,
Stephen Holden, Scott Tobias. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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The
Artist |
|
Michel Hazanavicius
new
|
 |
| 2011, 100m, BW,
France-Belgium, Romance-Comedy-Drama |
|
Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, John Goodman,
James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller, Missi Pyle, Beth Grant, Ed
Lauter, Joel Murray, Bitsie Tulloch |
|
"Michael
Hazanavicius's love letter to classic cinema isn't perfect but
it's close enough to make just about anyone who sees it
ridiculously happy - and that includes children and grown-ups
who have never come across a silent film." -
Ty Burr, The Boston Globe |
|
Selected by Peter
Bradshaw, Philip French, Kenneth Turan,
Marshall Fine, Richard Corliss. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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116 |
|
117↑ |
|
118 |
|
Goodbye,
Dragon Inn |
|
Tsai Ming-liang
(109) |
 |
| • Bu san
(original title) |
|
2003, 82m, Col, Taiwan, Drama-Comedy |
| Kang-Sheng
Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Tien Miao, Chun Shih,
Chao-Jung Chen, Kuei-Mei Yang |
|
"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 Daryl Chin, Dennis Lim, Philip French, Chris Chang,
Stig Bjorkman. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
|
| Vera Drake |
|
Mike Leigh (118) |
 |
| 2004, 125m, Col, UK-France,
Drama |
| Imelda
Staunton, Philip Davis, Peter Wright, Eddie Marsan, Alex Kelly,
Daniel Mays, Sally Hawkins, Adrian Scarborough, Heather Craney,
Ruth Sheen |
| "Vera Drake puts the passion in compassion.
Building up to a shattering conclusion,
Leigh's movie is both outrageously schematic and powerfully
humanist." -
J. Hoberman, Village Voice |
| Selected by Roger Ebert, Michael
Wilmington, Richard Schickel, John Anderson, Kenneth Turan. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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|
The White Ribbon |
|
Michael Haneke
(117) |
 |
| • Das
Weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (original title) |
|
2009, 144m, BW, Austria-Germany-France-Italy,
Crime-Drama-Mystery |
| Christian
Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur, Ursina
Lardi, Fion Mutert, Michael Kranz, Burghart Klaubner, Steffi
Kuhnert, Maria-Victoria Dragus |
|
"Detailed yet
oblique, leisurely but compelling, perfectly cast and
irreproachably acted, the movie has a seductively novelistic
texture complete with a less-than-omniscient narrator." -
J.
Hoberman, Village Voice |
|
Selected by
Geoff Andrew, Piers Handling, David Denby. Berenice Reynaud, David Ehrenstein. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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119 |
|
120↑ |
|
121 |
|
The Aviator |
|
Martin Scorsese
(113) |
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|
2004, 170m, Col-BW, Germany-USA, Drama-Biography |
| Leonardo
DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Alec
Baldwin, Alan Alda, Ian Holm, Danny Huston, Gwen Stefani, Jude
Law |
|
"If you didn't know that
Martin
Scorsese made The Aviator, the
enthralling new adventure-biography of Howard Hughes, you might
think it was the calling card of a neophyte visual genius." -
Michael Sragow, Baltimore Sun |
|
Selected by
Jeanine Basinger, Richard Schickel, Kent Jones, Carrie Rickey,
Roger Ebert. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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|
Hunger |
|
Steve
McQueen (129) |
 |
|
2008, 96m, Col, UK-Ireland, Drama-Historical |
| Michael
Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Helena Bereen, Larry Cowan, Liam
Cunningham, Dennis McCambridge, Liam McMahon, Laine Megaw, Brian
Milligan, Rory Mullen |
|
"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
David Sterritt, Nick James, Graham Fuller, Gerald Peary, Dennis Lim. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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|
Munich |
|
Steven Spielberg (114) |
 |
| 2005, 160m, Col,
USA, Drama-Historical-Thriller |
| Eric Bana,
Daniel Craig, Geoffrey Rush, Ciaran Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz,
Hanns Zischler, Ayelet Zorer, Gila Almagor, Michel Lonsdale,
Mathieu Amalric |
|
"A superbly taut and well-made
thriller that jumps from Geneva to Rome, from Paris to Beirut,
from Athens to Brooklyn, each lethal assignment staged with a
mastery
Hitchcock might envy." -
David Ansen, Newsweek |
|
Selected by Owen Gleiberman,
Armond White, Roger Ebert, Ty Burr, Michael Wilmington. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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122 |
|
123 |
|
124↑ |
|
The Dark Knight |
|
Christopher Nolan
(112) |
 |
|
2008, 152m, Col, USA-UK, Action-Crime-Thriller |
| Christian
Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Maggie
Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Monique Gabriela Curnen,
Ron Dean, Cillian Murphy |
| "Beyond
dark. It's as black -- and teeming and toxic -- as the mind of
the Joker. Batman Begins, the 2005 film that launched
Nolan's
series, was a mere five-finger exercise. This is the full
symphony." -
Richard Corliss,
Time |
|
Selected by Matt Singer, Nick Schager, Scott Tobias, Nathan
Rabin, Noel Murray. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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|
The Holy Girl |
|
Lucrecia Martel (116) |
 |
| • La Niña
santa (original title) |
| 2004, 103m, Col,
Argentina-Spain-Italy-Netherlands-Switzerland, Drama |
| Mercedes
Moran, Carlos Belloso, Alejandro Urdapilleta, Maria Alche,
Julieta Zylberberg, Mia Maestro, Marta Lubos, Arturo Goetz,
Alejo Mango, Monica Villa |
| "A subtle artist and a
sharp observer, Martel manages a large cast with an ease that
matches her skill at storytelling, within which psychological
insight and social comment flow easily and implicitly." -
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times |
|
Selected by
Raymond Bellour, Jonathan Romney, Phillip Lopate, Nick James, Kent Jones, |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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|
The Descendants |
|
Alexander Payne
new
|
 |
|
2011, 115m, Col, USA, Comedy-Drama |
|
George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara
Miller, Nick Krause, Patricia Hastie, Grace A. Cruz, Kim
Gennaula, Karen Kuioka Hironaga, Carmen Kaichi, Kaui Hart
Hemmings |
| "Expertly
mixing tears and laughs with the sort of alchemy not seen since
Terms of Endearment, this superbly written, directed,
acted, and yes, Oscar-friendly movie perfectly captures the
blackly comic insanity that can overtake a family forced to
confront an impending death." -
Lou Lumenick, The New York Post |
|
Selected by Owen
Gleiberman, Todd McCarthy, Glenn Kenny,
Marshall Fine, David Denby. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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125 |
|
126 |
|
127 |
|
Master and
Commander: The Far Side of the World |
|
Peter Weir
(121) |
 |
| 2003, 138m, Col,
USA, Drama-Adventure-Action |
| Russell
Crowe, Paul Bettany, Billy Boyd, James D'Arcy, Chris Larkin, Lee
Ingleby, George Innes, Mark Lewis Jones, Richard McCabe, Robert
Pugh |
| "As magnificent as a high-masted
19th-century British warship, as explosive as a Napoleonic-era
ocean battle seen above the cannon's mouth... probably the best
movie of its kind ever made." - Michael Wilmington, Chicago
Tribune |
|
Selected by Michael
Wilmington, Michael Sragow, Ty Burr, Roger Ebert, J. Hoberman. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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|
Time Out |
|
Laurent Cantet (120) |
 |
| • L'Emploi du
temps (original title) |
| 2001, 134m, Col,
France, Drama |
| Aurelien
Recoing, Karin Viard, Serge Livrozet, Jean-Pierre Mangeot,
Monique Mangeot, Nicholas Kalsch, Marie Cantet, Felix Cantet,
Olivier Le Joubioux, Maxime Sassier |
| "There's piercing sadness,
and fury, too, in this Everyman's isolation, and
Cantet is
singularly skilled at evoking the universal condition of such
tragic ordinariness." - Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment
Weekly |
|
Selected by John Anderson,
Dave Kehr, John Powers, Kenneth Turan, Chris Fujiwara. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
|
|
The Piano
Teacher |
|
Michael Haneke (119) |
 |
| • La Pianiste
(original title) |
| 2001, 130m, Col,
Austria-France-Germany, Drama |
| Isabelle
Huppert, Benoit Magimel, Annie Girardot, Susanne Lothar, Udo
Samel, Anna Sigalevitch, Cornelia Kongden, Thomas Weinhappel,
Georg Friedrich, Philipp Heiss |
| "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 John
Waters, Michael Atkinson, Manohla Dargis, Ernest Hardy, Scott Foundas. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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128 |
|
129↑ |
|
130 |
|
Together |
|
Lukas Moodysson
(122) |
 |
| • Tillsammans
(original title) |
|
2000, 106m, Col, Sweden-Denmark-Italy, Drama-Comedy |
| Lisa
Lindgren, Gustaf Hammarsten, Michael Nyqvist, Emma Samuelsson,
Sam Kessel, Anja Lundqvist, Jessica Liedberg, Ola Norell, Axel
Zuber, Shanti Roney |
| "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 David Ansen, Armond White, Sukhdev Sandhu, Kenneth Turan, Owen Gleiberman. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
|
|
Shaun of the
Dead |
|
Edgar Wright (134) |
 |
| 2004, 99m, Col,
UK-USA-France, Action-Comedy-Horror |
| Simon Pegg,
Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Nick Frost, Dylan Moran, Bill Nighy,
Penelope Wilton, Jessica Stevenson, Peter Serafinowicz, Rafe
Spall |
|
"A gleefully gory, pitch-perfect
parody of
George Romero's zombie
films. But this isn't a movie about other movies. Shaun of the
Dead stands on its own." -
Robert K. Elder, Chicago Trubune |
|
Selected by
Quentin
Tarantino, Peter Bradshaw, Nick James, Richard
Corliss, Shawn Levy. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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|
The
Ghost Writer |
|
Roman Polanski
(128) |
 |
|
2010, 128m, Col, France-Germany-UK, Drama-Mystery-Thriller |
| Ewan
McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall, James Belushi, Olivia
Williams, Timothy Hutton, Tom Wilkinson, Eli Wallach, Robert
Pugh, David Rintoul |
|
"The Ghost Writer is the kind of impeccable adult
entertainment, able to alternate edge-of-your-seat episodes with
bleakly comic moments, that
Hitchcock used to specialize in
and that
Polanski himself realized so successfully in
Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby." -
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times |
|
Selected by David
Denby, J. Hoberman, Owen Gleiberman, Philip French, Roger Ebert. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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131↑ |
|
132 |
|
133 |
|
Little Miss
Sunshine |
|
Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris (142) |
 |
| 2006, 102m, Col,
USA, Comedy-Drama |
| Greg
Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Abigail Breslin, Paul Dano,
Alan Arkin, Bryan Cranston, Marc Turtletaub, Beth Grant, Jill
Talley |
| "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 |
|
|
| Head-On |
| Fatih
Akin (130) |
 |
| • Gegen die
Wand (original title) |
| 2003, 121m, Col,
Germany, Romance-Drama |
| Birol Unel,
Sibel Kekilli, Catrin Striebeck, Meltem Cumbul, Stefan Gebelhoff,
Francesco Fiannaca, Mona Mur, Ralph Misske, Philipp Baltus,
Hermann Lause, Karin Niwiger |
| "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, Nick James, Ty Burr, Peter Keough, David Ehrenstein. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
|
|
Good Night,
and Good Luck |
|
George Clooney (124) |
 |
| 2005, 93m, BW,
USA, Drama-Historical |
| David
Strathairn, Patricia Clarkson, George Clooney, Robert Downey
Jr., Ray Wise, Frank Langella, Jeff Daniels, Tate Donovan,
Robert Burke, Reed Diamond |
| "This is an elegant and
stirring entertainment about the hard-drinking, hard-smoking
reporters of "See It Now," the show that Murrow and the producer
Fred Friendly put together every week." -
David Denby, The New Yorker |
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Selected by David Ansen,
Molly Haskell, David Ehrenstein, Peter Keough, Ty Burr. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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134 |
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135↑ |
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136 |
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Paranoid
Park |
|
Gus Van
Sant (132) |
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|
2007, 85m, Col, France-USA, Drama |
| Gabe
Nevins, Taylor Momsen, Jake Miller, Dan Liu, Lauren McKinney,
Scott Green, John 'Mike' Burrowes, Grace Carter, Jay 'Smay'
Williamson, Christopher Doyle |
| "The
pleasing circularity of
Gus Van Sant's masterful
Paranoid Park is not only a function of the film's narrative
structure but reflects the arc of its maker's career. Few
directors have revisited their earliest concerns with such
vigor." -
J. Hoberman, Village Voice |
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Selected by
David Ehrenstein, Tom Charity, Amy Taubin, J. Hoberman, Daryl Chin. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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Sexy Beast |
|
Jonathan Glazer (139) |
 |
| 2000, 88m, Col,
UK-Spain-USA, Drama-Crime-Comedy |
| Ray
Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane, Amanda Redman, Cavan
Kendall, Julianne White, Alvaro Monje, James Fox, Robert Atiko,
Nieves del Amo Oruet |
|
"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 |
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Selected by Nick
James, Owen Gleiberman,
Peter Rainer, David Edelstein, Elvis Mitchell. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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Regular
Lovers |
|
Philippe Garrel (125) |
 |
| • Les Amants
réguliers (original title) |
| 2004,
178m, BW, France-Italy, Drama |
| Louis
Garrel, Clotilde Hesme, Julien Lucas, Nicolas Bridet, Mathieu
Genet, Raissa Mariotti, Caroline Deruas-Garrel, Rebecca
Convenant, Marie Girardin, Maurice Garrel |
| "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
David Ehrenstein, Richard Brody, Michael Atkinson, Charles
Tesson, Berenice Reynaud. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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137↑ |
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138 |
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139↑ |
|
Hugo |
|
Martin Scorsese
new
|
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|
2011, 126m, Col, USA,
Adventure-Drama-Family |
|
Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa
Butterfield, Chloe Grace Moretz, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer,
Christopher Lee, Helen McCrory, Michael Stuhlbarg, Frances de la
Tour |
| "Instead
of sticking with the familiar,
Scorsese has followed his
impulses into something that feels entirely new but is still
distinctively his. He has made a potential holiday classic, an
exciting, comic and sentimental melodrama that will satisfy
children and adults alike and reward repeat viewings for many
years to come." -
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon |
|
Selected by J.
Hoberman, Roger Ebert, Glenn Kenny, Ty Burr,
Philip French. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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|
The Best of
Youth |
|
Marco Tullio Giordana (126) |
 |
| • La Meglio
gioventù (original title) |
| 2003, 373m, Col,
Italy, Drama |
| Luigi Lo
Cascio, Alessio Boni, Adriana Asti, Sonia Bergamasco, Fabrizio
Gifuni, Maya Sansa, Valentina Carnelutti, Jasmine Trinca, Andrea
Tidona, Lidia Vitale |
| "The Best of Youth doesn't
have a boring millisecond. It isn't an art film, with longueurs;
it's a mini-series with the sweep of a classic novel, with tons
of plot." -
David Edelstein, Slate |
|
Selected by
Kenneth Turan, A.O. Scott, Vivian Sobchack, Richard Schickel, Michael Wilmington. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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|
Bowling for
Columbine |
|
Michael Moore
(147) |
 |
|
2002, 120m, Col, USA, Documentary-Comedy |
| Michael
Moore, Denise Ames, Arthur A. Busch, Barry Glassner, Charlton
Heston, Marilyn Manson, James Nichols, Matt Stone, Dick Clark,
Seth Collins |
|
"Moore's
best movie, and one of the most blisteringly effective polemics
and documentaries ever." - Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune |
|
Selected by Mark Cousins, Michael Atkinson, Ed Halter, Scott Foundas, Edward
Crouse. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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140 |
|
141 |
|
142 |
|
La Commune
(Paris, 1871) |
|
Peter
Watkins (127) |
 |
| 2000, 345m, BW,
France, Drama-Historical |
| Elaine
Annie Adalto, Pierre Barbieux, Bernard Bombeau, Maylis
Bouffartigue, Genevieve Capy, Anne Carlier, Veronique Couzon,
Piotr Daskiewicz, Nicole Defer, Caroline Esnard-Benoit |
| "Taped in stark
black-and-white and clocking in 15 minutes shy of six hours,
this invigorating pic is big, passionate and brimming with
compelling human details and broad sociopolitical idealism." -
Eddie Cockrell, Variety |
|
Selected by David Ehrenstein,
J. Hoberman, Michael Atkinson, James Quandt,
Amy Taubin. |
| See also:
1,000
Greatest Films |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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Three Times |
|
Hou
Hsiao-hsien (131) |
 |
| • Zui hao de
shi guang (original title) |
| 2005, 135m, Col,
France-Taiwan, Romance-Drama |
| Qi Shu,
Chen Chang, Fang Mei, Mei Di, Su-jen Liao, Chen Shi-Zheng, Lee
Pei-hsuan, Huang Ruo-shi, Liao Ling-tzu, Ko Yu-Lun |
| "Three varieties of love:
unfulfilled, mercenary, meaningless. All photographed with such
visual beauty that watching the movie is like holding your
breath so the butterfly won’t stir." - Roger Ebert, Chicago
Sun-Times |
|
Selected by Kent
Jones, Thom Andersen, Richard Combs, Piers Handling,
Martin
Scorsese. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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|
School of
Rock |
|
Richard Linklater
(141) |
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|
2003, 108m, Col, Germany-USA, Musical-Comedy |
| Jack Black,
Joan Cusack, Mike White, Sarah Silverman, Adam Pascal, Lucas
Papselias, Chris Stack, Lucas Babin, Jordan-Claire Green,
Veronica Afflerbach |
|
"This joyous farce is a big, big deal, and Jack Black is nothing
less than majestic as a scruffy, irreverent rocker passing
himself off as a pedagogue in a private school." - Joe
Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal |
|
Selected by
Kevin MacDonald, Dennis Lim, Owen Gleiberman, Ty Burr, David Ansen. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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143 |
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144 |
|
145↑ |
|
Bad Education |
|
Pedro
Almodóvar (143) |
 |
| • La Mala
educación (original title) |
| 2004, 105m, Col,
Spain, Thriller-Drama |
| Gael Garcia
Bernal, Fele Martinez, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Lluis Homar,
Francisco Maestre, Francisco Boira, Raul Garcia Forneiro, Nacho
Perez, Javier Camara, Alberto Ferreiro |
| "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 Gilbert Adair, Tony Rayns, Carrie Rickey,
Stephen Holden, Wesley Morris. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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|
Gladiator |
|
Ridley Scott
(133) |
 |
|
2000, 154m, Col, USA, Drama-Action |
| Russell
Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Derek
Jacobi, Djimon Hounsou, Richard Harris, David Schofield, John
Shrapnel, Thomas Arana |
|
"It's that very rare feeling that you're settling into a movie
whose individual elements are so finely attuned they fuse into a
singular construct of pure entertainment." - Ted Fry, Film.com |
|
Selected by Frank Darabont, Owen Gleiberman, Peter Travers, Mike D'Angelo, Lisa Schwarzbaum. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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The
Wrestler |
|
Darren
Aronofsky
(148) |
 |
|
2008, 109m, Col, USA, Drama-Sport |
| Mickey
Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Mark Margolis, Todd
Barry, Wass Stevens, Judah Friedlander, Ernest Miller, Dylan
Keith Summers, Tommy Farra |
|
"Rourke creates a galvanizing, humorous, deeply moving
portrait that instantly takes its place among the great, iconic
screen performances. An elemental story simply and brilliantly
told, Darren
Aronofsky's fourth feature is a winner from every
possible angle." - Todd McCarthy, Variety |
|
Selected by
James Franco, Michael Atkinson, Glenn Kenny, Donna Bowman, Peter Brunette. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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146 |
|
147↑ |
|
148 |
|
Happy-Go-Lucky |
|
Mike Leigh (136) |
 |
|
2008, 118m, Col, UK-USA, Comedy-Drama |
| Sally
Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Alexis Zegerman, Sylvestra Le Touzel,
Stanley Townsend, Kate O'Flynn, Caroline Martin, Oliver Maltman,
Sarah Niles, Samuel Roukin |
| "Leigh
and his actors work mysterious magic in Happy-Go-Lucky.
This is a movie about hitting the groove of everyday life and,
nearly miraculously, getting music out of it." -
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon |
|
Selected by
Armond White, Amy Taubin, John Anderson, Phillip Lopate, Saul Austerlitz. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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|
The
King's Speech |
|
Tom Hooper (162) |
 |
|
2010, 118m, Col, UK-Australia, Drama-Historical |
| Colin Firth,
Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Derek Jacobi, Robert
Portal, Richard Dixon, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall, Jennifer Ehle,
Michael Gambon |
|
"No screen portrait of a king has ever been more
stirring-heartbreaking at first, then stirring. That's partly
due to the screenplay, which contains two of the best-written
roles in recent memory, and to Mr. Hooper's superb direction." -
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal |
|
Selected by Carrie
Rickey, David Ansen, Michael Sragow, Roger Ebert, Anne Thompson. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
|
|
The Intruder |
|
Claire
Denis (135) |
 |
| • L'Intrus
(original title) |
| 2004, 130m, Col,
France-Korea, Drama |
| Michel
Subor, Gregoire Colin, Yekaterina Golubeva, Bambou, Florence
Loiret, Lolita Chammah, Alex Descas, Dong-ho Kim, Se-tak Chang,
Hong-suk Park |
| "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
Dominik Graf,
Kent Jones, Jonathan Romney, Chris Chang, Gavin Smith. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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149 |
|
150 |
|
> 151-200 |
|
House of
Flying Daggers |
|
Zhang
Yimou (137) |
 |
| • Shi mian
mai fu (original title) |
| 2001, 111m, Col,
Hong Kong-China, Action-Drama-Romance |
| Takeshi
Kaneshiro, Zhang Ziyi, Andy Lau, Song Dandan, Wang Yabin, Zheng
Lu, Wu Weifeng, Yan Yan, Zheng Jie, Zhao Hongfei |
| "House of Flying Daggers finds
the great Chinese director at his most romantic in this
thrilling martial arts epic that involves a conflict between
love and duty carried out to its fullest expression." -
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times |
|
Selected by Michael
Wilmington, Richard Roeper, J.R. Jones, David Edelstein, Richard
Corliss. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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Police, Adjective |
|
Corneliu Porumboiu
(138) |
 |
| • Politist,
adj.
(original title) |
|
2009, 115m, Col, Romania, Comedy-Crime-Drama |
| Dragos
Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Irina Saulescu, Ion Stoica, Marian Ghenea,
Cosmin Selesi, George Remes, Dan Cogalniceanu, Serban Georgevici,
Costi Dita |
|
"Police, Adjective is a deadly serious as well as
dryly humorous analysis of bureaucratic procedure and,
particularly, the tyranny of language. Images may record
reality, but words define it." - J. Hoberman, Village
Voice |
|
Selected by
Mark Cousins, Tom Charity, Amy Taubin, David Sterritt,
Phillip Lopate. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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