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United 93 |
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Paul
Greengrass (47) |
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| 2006, 110m, Col,
USA-UK-France, Drama-Historical-Thriller |
| Christian
Clemenson, Trish Gates, Polly Adams, Cheyenne Jackson, Opal
Alladin, Gary Commock, Nancy McDoniel, David Alan Basche,
Richard Bekins, Susan Blommaert |
|
"A respectful,
accomplished, non-exploitative piece of historical filmmaking
and - for audiences - a gripping white-knuckle ride all the way." -
William Arnold, Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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Selected by Michael Atkinson,
John Waters,
Gavin Smith, Peter Keough, Michael Sragow. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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Still Life |
|
Jia Zhangke
(48) |
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| • Sanxia
haoren (original title) |
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2006, 113m, Col, Hong Kong-China, Drama-Romance |
| Tao Zhao,
Sanming Han, Hong Wei Wang, Zhou Lan, Yong Huang, Jianlin Peng,
Zhubin Li |
|
"Few of China's
Sixth Generation filmmakers have turned to their country's
explosive economic growth and its attendant upheavals with so
sharp an eye and so heavy a heart as
Jia Zhang-ke." -
Ken Fox, TV Guide |
|
Selected by
Tony Rayns, Dennis Lim,
Kiyoshi Kurosawa,
Arnaud
Desplechin, Richard Combs. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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Elephant |
|
Gus Van
Sant (51) |
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| 2003, 81m, Col,
USA, Drama |
| Alex Frost,
Eric Deulen, John (1) Robinson, Elias McConnell, Jordan Taylor,
Carrie Finklea, Nicole George, Timothy Bottoms, Matt Malloy,
Larry Laverty |
|
"Calmly, almost serenely,
Mr. Van Sant and his superb
cinematographer, Harris Savides, reveal a vision of contemporary
American youth quite unlike any other." - Joe Morgenstern,
Wall Street Journal |
|
Selected by Tom
Hanks, David Ehrenstein, Stig Bjorkman, Raymond Bellour, Michael
Atkinson. |
| See also:
1,000
Greatest Films |
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Amazon
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Dancer
in the Dark |
|
Lars von Trier (62) |
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| 2000, 140m, Col,
Denmark-France-Sweden,
Musical-Drama |
| Bjork,
Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare, Joel Grey,
Vincent Paterson, Cara Seymour, Jean-Marc Barr, Vladica Kostic,
Udo Kier |
|
"I was astonished to find
myself weeping copiously over
von
Trier's latest, which is another parable of monomaniacal
sainthood." -
Ella Taylor, LA Weekly |
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Selected by
John Waters,
Lizzie Francke, David Sterritt,
Manohla Dargis, John Anderson. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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The Queen |
|
Stephen Frears (63) |
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| 2006, 103m, Col,
UK-France-Italy-USA, Biography-Drama |
| Helen
Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Helen McCrory, Alex
Jennings, Roger Allam, Sylvia Syms, Tim McMullan, Robin Soans,
Lela Peploe |
| "The Queen is the most
reverent irreverent comedy imaginable. Or maybe it's the most
irreverent reverent comedy. Either way, it's a small
masterpiece." - David Edelstein, New York Magazine |
|
Selected by Glenn Kenny, Michael Wilmington, Molly Haskell, Peter
Keough, Michael Sragow. |
|
Amazon
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Finding Nemo |
|
Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich (54) |
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| 2003, 100m, Col,
USA, Family-Animated-Adventure |
| Albert
Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe, Brad
Garrett, Allison Janney, Austin Pendleton, Geoffrey Rush, Andrew
Stanton, Elizabeth Perkins |
| "On a purely visual level,
Finding Nemo is as gorgeous a film as Disney's ever put out,
with astonishing qualities of light, movement, surface and color
at the service of the best professional imaginations money can
buy." -
Hazel-Dawn Dumpert, LA Weekly |
|
Selected by George
Kuchar, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Frank Darabont,
Michael Wilmington, A.O. Scott. |
|
Amazon
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59 |
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The Lord of
the Rings: The Two Towers |
|
Peter
Jackson (60) |
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| 2002, 179m, Col,
USA-New Zealand-Germany, Fantasy-Adventure |
| Elijah
Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, John
Rhys-Davies, Christopher Lee, Cate Blanchett, Bernard Hill, Brad
Dourif |
| "Moviegoers should be
almost as entranced by the teeming, glorious landscapes and
dark, bloody battlegrounds of Two Towers: astonishing midpoint
of an epic movie fantasy journey for the ages." - Michael
Wilmington, Chicago Tribune |
|
Selected by Ty Burr,
Frank Darabont, Michael Wilmington, Peter Travers, A.O. Scott. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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Toy
Story 3 |
|
Lee
Unkrich (52) |
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2010, 103m, Col, USA, Animated-Adventure-Comedy |
| Tom Hanks,
Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Ned Beatty, Don Rickles, Michael Keaton,
Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Estelle Harris, John Morris |
| "A
sequel made with care and integrity, Toy Story 3 is just
moving enough: It winds its way gently toward its big themes
instead of grabbing desperately at them, and because its plot is
so beautifully worked out, getting there is almost all of the
fun." -
Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline |
|
Selected by Anthony
Lane, Carrie Rickey, David Ansen, David Denby, Glenn Kenny. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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The
Squid and the Whale |
|
Noah
Baumbach
(57) |
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|
2005, 80m, Col, USA, Drama-Comedy |
| Jeff
Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline, Halley
Feiffer, Anna Paquin, William Baldwin, David Benger, Molly
Barton, Bo Berkman |
| "A
satirical comedy--ruthless and heartbreaking, but a comedy
nonetheless. The movie is also about disintegration and the
possibility of rebirth. In other words, it’s a small miracle." -
David Denby, The New Yorker |
|
Selected by J.
Hoberman, Kenneth Turan, David Ansen, Molly Haskell, Peter
Keough. |
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62↑ |
| Tropical Malady |
|
Apichatpong
Weerasethakul (56) |
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| • Sud pralad
(original title) |
| 2004, 118m, Col,
France-Thailand-Germany-Italy-Switzerland, Romance-Drama-Fantasy |
| Banlop
Lomnoi, Sakda Kaewbuadee, Huai Dessom, Sirivech Jareonchon, Udom
Promma |
| "Like Blissfully Yours and Apichatpong's first feature, the exquisite-corpse road movie
Mysterious Object at Noon (2000), Tropical Malady promotes new
ways of seeing." - Dennis Lim, Village Voice |
| Selected by
Jean-Michel Frodon, Dudley Andrew, Tony Rayns, Mark Cousins,
Piers Handling. |
| See also:
1,000
Greatest Films |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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Russian Ark |
|
Aleksandr Sokurov (55) |
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| • Russkiy
kovcheg (original title) |
| 2002, 96m, Col,
Russia-Germany-Japan-Canada-Finland-Denmark, Fantasy-Drama |
| Sergei
Dontsov, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, David Giorgobiani,
Aleksandr Chaban, Maxim Sergeyev, Anna Aleksakhina, Natalia
Nikulenko, Vladimir Baranov, Boris Smolkin |
| "High art, low comedy, hard
labor and royal prerogative are here thrown together in an
elegant unity, a breathtaking demonstration of Russian cinematic
-- hence artistic -- brilliance." - Henry Sheehan, LA
Weekly |
|
Selected by Mark
Cousins, Gilbert Adair, Lizzie Francke, Stuart Klawans, Vivian
Sobchack. |
| See also:
1,000
Greatest Films |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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Capturing the
Friedmans |
|
Andrew Jarecki (66) |
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| 2003, 107m, Col,
USA, Documentary-Crime |
| Arnold
Friedman, Elaine Friedman, David Friedman, Seth Friedman, Jesse
Friedman, Howard Friedman, John McDermott, Frances Galasso,
Joseph Onorato, Anthony Sgueglia |
| "A compulsively watchable
movie that's also a provocative inquiry into the ability of the
criminal-justice system to determine culpability and truth." -
David Sterritt, Christian Science Monitor |
|
Selected by David
Denby, Michael Atkinson, David Sterritt,
Berenice Reynaud, Michael Sragow. |
|
Amazon
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65 |
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The Pianist |
|
Roman
Polanski (64) |
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| 2002, 148m, Col,
France-Poland-Germany-UK-Netherlands, War-Drama |
| Adrien
Brody, Emilia Fox, Michael Zebrowski, Ed Stoppard, Maureen
Lipman, Frank Finlay, Jessica Kate Meyer, Julia Rayner, Wanja
Mues, Richard Ridings |
| "A great movie on a powerful,
essential subject -- the Holocaust years in Poland -- directed
with such artistry and skill that, as we watch, the barriers of
the screen seem to melt away." -
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune |
|
Selected by
Jeanine Basinger, Michael Sragow,
Peter Keough, Chris Fujiwara, Richard Schickel. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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Flight of
the Red Balloon |
|
Hou Hsiao-hsien
(58) |
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| • Le Voyage
du ballon rouge (original title) |
|
2007, 115m, Col, France-Taiwan, Drama |
| Juliette
Binoche, Simon Iteanu, Fang Song, Hippolyte Girardot, Louise
Margolin, Anna Sigalevitch, Flore Vannier-Moreau, Gregory
Dreyfuss, William Hatig, Clara Dumont |
| "Flight
of the Red Balloon is in a class by itself. In its
unexpected rhythms and visual surprises, its structural
innovations and experimental perfs, its creative
misunderstandings and its outré syntheses, this is a movie of
genius." - J. Hoberman, Village Voice |
|
Selected by Jonathan Rosenbaum, John Anderson, Amy Taubin,
Michael Atkinson, Berenice Reynaud. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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A Serious Man |
|
Joel Coen
and Ethan Coen
(59) |
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|
2009, 105m, Col, USA-UK-France, Comedy-Drama |
| Michael
Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick, Aaron
Wolff, Jessica McManus, Peter Breitmayer, Brent Braunschweig,
David Kang, Benjy Portnoe |
|
"A tart,
brilliantly acted fable of life’s little cosmic difficulties, a
Coen brothers
comedy with a darker philosophical outlook than No Country
for Old Men but with a script rich in verbal wit." -
Michael
Phillips, Chicago Tribune |
|
Selected by
Joseph McBride, Ty Burr, Gilberto Perez, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Glenn Kenny. |
|
Amazon
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Summer Hours |
|
Olivier Assayas
(61) |
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| • L'heure
d'été (original title) |
|
2008, 103m, Col, France, Drama-Family |
| Juliette
Binoche, Charles Berling, Jeremie Renier, Edith Scob, Dominique
Reymond, Valerie Bonneton, Isabelle Sadoyan, Alice de
Lencquesaing, Emile Berling, Kyle Eastwood |
| "French
films traditionally take France and its eternal appeal for
granted. Summer Hours is the rare film that worries about
that, worries about the future, and that proves to be
invaluable." -
Kenneth Turan, Los
Angeles Times |
|
Selected by Graham
Fuller, Kent Jones, Phillip Lopate, Todd McCarthy, Glenn Kenny. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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You Can Count
on Me |
|
Kenneth Lonergan (65) |
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| 2000, 110m, Col,
USA, Drama-Comedy |
| Laura
Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Matthew Broderick, Jon Tenney, Rory Culkin,
J. Smith Cameron, Josh Lucas, Gaby Hoffmann, Adam Lefevre,
Kenneth Lonergan |
| "The best American movie of
the year. Has a subtext so powerful that it reaches out and
pulls you under. Even when the surface is tranquil, you know in
your guts what's at stake." - David Edelstein, Slate |
|
Selected by Gerald Peary,
Robert Sklar, Roger Ebert, Andrew O'Hehir, David Edelstein. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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American
Splendor |
|
Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman (68) |
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| 2003, 101m, Col,
USA, Drama |
| Paul
Giamatti, Harry Davis, James Urbaniak, Chris Ambrose, Joey
Krajcar, Josh Hutcherson, Harvey Pekar, Judah Friedlander, Joyce
Brabner, Toby Radloff |
| "Sad, tender, wise and
beautiful film... It's a profound tribute to lives lived on the
fringes of society -- to the introspective loners who are the
most observant chroniclers of our times." - Scott Foundas,
Variety |
|
Selected by Roger Ebert, John
Anderson, J. Hoberman, Gerald Peary, Owen Gleiberman. |
|
Amazon
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70↑ |
|
71 |
|
L'Enfant |
|
Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
(67) |
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| • The Child
(English title) |
|
2005, 95m, Col, Belgium-France, Drama |
| Jeremie
Renier, Deborah Francois, Jeremie Segard, Fabrizio Rongione,
Olivier Gourmet, Anne Gerard, Bernard Marbaix, Jean-Claude
Boniverd, Stephane Bissot, Mireille Bailly |
|
"For all its seeming simplicity, this is an emotionally and
intellectually complex film that holds the viewer in a grip as
tight as any classic thriller you can name." -
Glenn Kenny, Premiere |
|
Selected by
Kiyoshi
Kurosawa, Sukhdev Sandhu, Tom Charity, Richard Brody,
Ian Christie. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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Inglourious
Basterds |
|
Quentin Tarantino
(72) |
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|
2009, 153m, Col, USA-Germany, Action-Drama-War |
| Brad Pitt,
Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender,
Diane Kruger, Daniel Bruhl, Til Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard,
Jacky Ido |
|
"It's just
possible that
Tarantino, having played a
trick on history, is also fooling his fans. They think they're
in for a Hollywood-style war movie starring Brad Pitt. What
they're really getting is the cagiest, craziest, grandest
European film of the year." -
Richard Corliss,
Time |
|
Selected by
Michael Atkinson, Tom
Charity, Glenn Kenny, Owen Gleiberman, Peter Keough. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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Letters from
Iwo Jima |
|
Clint Eastwood
(70) |
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| 2006, 141m, Col,
USA, Drama-Historical-War |
| Ken
Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shido
Nakamura, Hiroshi Watanabe, Takumi Bando, Yuki Matsuzaki,
Takashi Yamaguchi, Eijiro Ozaki |
|
"Eastwood's
direction here is a thing of beauty, blending the ferocity of
the classic films of
Akira Kurosawa
(Seven Samurai) with the delicacy and unblinking gaze of
Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Story)." -
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone |
|
Selected by Joseph
McBride, Stig Bjorkman, David Ansen, Richard Schickel, Pierre
Rissient. |
|
Amazon
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74↑ |
|
Oldboy |
|
Park Chan-wook
(69) |
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| • Old Boy
(alternative title) |
| 2003,
120m, Col, Korea, Action-Mystery-Thriller |
| Min-Sik
Choi, Ji-tae Yu, Hye-jeong Kang, Byeong-ok Kim, Dae-han Ji,
Dal-su Oh, Seung-Shin Lee, Jin-seo Yun, Tae-kyung Oh, Yeon-suk
Ahn |
| "The
result is a powerfully visceral experience that justifies itself
almost entirely on surface chops, with striking color
composition and a complex sound design that elevates the story
to an operatic scale." -
Scott Tobias, The A.V. Club |
|
Selected by
Cameron Crowe,
Louis Leterrier, Maitland McDonagh, Tom Gunning, Dave Kehr. |
| See also:
1,000
Greatest Films |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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Kings & Queen |
|
Arnaud Desplechin (71) |
 |
| • Rois et
reine (original title) |
| 2004, 152m, Col,
France, Drama-Comedy |
| Emmanuelle
Devos, Mathieu Amalric, Catherine Deneuve, Maurice Garrel,
Natalie Boutefu, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Magali Woch, Hippolyte
Girardot, Noemie Lvovsky, Elsa Wolliaston |
| "The film is a tower of
literary and cinematic references, tangential yet somehow
essential characters, and one fantastic performance after
another. It's a simple movie yet is anything but." -
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe |
|
Selected by Stuart
Klawans, Chris Chang, Gavin Smith, Chris Fujiwara,
Dennis Lim. |
|
Amazon
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Werckmeister
Harmonies |
|
Béla Tarr (105) |
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| •
Werckmeister harmóniák (original title) |
| 2000, 145m, BW,
Hungary-Germany-France-Switzerland-Italy, Drama |
| Lars
Rudolph, Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla, Janos Derzsi, Djoko
Rossich, Tamas Wichmann, Ferenc Killai, Mihaly Kormos, Putyi
Horvath, Eva Almassy Albert |
| "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 David
Sterritt, Michael Atkinson, Jean-Michel Frodon, Jonathan Romney,
Tony Rayns. |
| See also:
1,000
Greatest Films |
|
Amazon
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75↑ |
|
76 |
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77 |
|
Fantastic Mr. Fox |
|
Wes Anderson
(81) |
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2009, 87m, Col, USA, Animated-Adventure-Comedy |
| George
Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Wallace
Wolodarsky, Eric Chase Anderson, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe,
Owen Wilson, Jarvis Cocker |
| "Anderson
has pulled off the most elusive of goals: He's made a nonchalant
masterpiece, a movie that feels dog-eared and loved before it's
even reached our hands." - Stephanie Zacharek, Salon |
|
Selected by
David Denby, Todd McCarthy, Carrie Rickey, Kent Jones, Owen
Gleiberman. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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I'm Not
There |
|
Todd Haynes (74) |
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| 2007,
135m, Col-BW, USA-Germany, Biography-Drama-Musical |
| Christian
Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Ben Whishaw, Richard
Gere, Heath Ledger, Charlotte Gainsbourg, David Cross, Bruce
Greenwood, Julianne Moore |
| "Haynes's
picture may not be perfect -- hell, I'm not even sure that
perfection is a state it even aspires to -- but it's bold and
individualistic and accomplished." -
Glenn Kenny, Premiere |
|
Selected by
David Ehrenstein, J. Hoberman, Kent Jones, David Fear, Steve Erickson. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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|
The
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford |
|
Andrew
Dominik (76) |
 |
| 2007,
160m, Col, USA-Canada, Western-Biography-Drama |
| Brad Pitt,
Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Mary-Louise Parker, Brooklyn Proulx,
Sam Rockwell, Jeremy Renner, Paul Schneider, Zooey Deschanel,
Michael Parks |
| "Though
there is plenty of gunplay, this is a wondrously contemplative
and poetic saga that offers a fresh and bewitching take on a
timeworn genre." -
Claudia Puig, USA Today |
|
Selected by
Michael Atkinson, Todd McCarthy,
Guy Maddin, Phillip Lopate, Tom Charity. |
|
Amazon
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80 |
|
Amores perros |
|
Alejandro González Iñárritu (73) |
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| 2000, 153m, Col,
Mexico, Drama |
| Emilio
Echeverria, Gael Garcia Bernal, Goya Toledo, Alvaro Guerrero,
Vanessa Bauche, Jorge Salinas, Marco Perez, Rodrigo Murray,
Humberto Busto, Gerardo Campbell |
| "An overpowering and
original piece of bravura filmmaking that constitutes one of the
most breathtaking and impressive directing debuts in years." -
Desmond Ryan, Philadelphia Inquirer |
|
Selected by Paul
Julian Smith, Klaus Lemke, A.O. Scott, Elliott Stein, Michael
Wilmington. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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|
The New World |
|
Terrence Malick
(77) |
 |
| 2005, 150m, Col,
USA, Drama-Adventure |
| Colin
Farrell, Christopher Plummer, Christian Bale, Wes Studi, David
Thewlis, Yorick van Wageningen, Q'Orianka Kilcher, Ben
Mendelsohn, Raoul Trujillo, John Savage |
|
"Not since
Stanley Kubrick's
2001: A
Space Odyssey and
Malick's own
Days of Heaven has a movie been both so breathtakingly
beautiful and so narratively abstract." -
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer |
|
Selected by Joseph
McBride, Chris Chang, Richard Combs, Mark Cousins, Tom Gunning. |
| See also:
1,000
Greatest Films |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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The World |
|
Jia Zhangke (75) |
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| • Shijie
(original title) |
| 2004, 140m, Col,
China-Japan-France, Drama |
| Tao Zhao,
Taisheng Chen, Jue Jing, Zhong-wei Jiang, Yi-qun Wang, Hong Wei
Wang, Jing Dong Liang, Shuai Ji, Wan Xiang, Alla Shcherbakova |
| "The title of
Jia Zhang-ke's
2004 masterpiece, The World -- a film that's hilarious and
upsetting, epic and dystopian -- is an ironic pun and a
metaphor." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by Daryl
Chin, A.O. Scott, Richard Brody, Michael Atkinson, Dudley
Andrew. |
|
Amazon
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82↑ |
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83 |
|
Waking Life |
|
Richard Linklater (80) |
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| 2001, 100m, Col,
USA, Fantasy-Animated |
| Trevor Jack
Brooks, Lorelei Linklater, Wiley Wiggins, Glover Gill, Lara
Hicks, Ames Asbell, Leigh Mahoney, Sara Nelson, Jeanine Attaway,
Erik Grostic |
| "I have seen Waking Life
three times now. I want to see it again -- not to master it, or
even to remember it better, -- but simply to experience all of
these ideas, all of this passion, the very act of trying to
figure things out." -
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times |
|
Selected by Roger
Ebert, Gavin Smith,
Dave Kehr, Gerald Peary, B. Ruby Rich. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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|
Let the
Right One In |
|
Tomas
Alfredson (84) |
 |
| • Låt den
rätte komma in (original title) |
|
2008, 114m, Col, Sweden, Drama-Horror-Romance |
| Kare
Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Henrik Dahl, Karin
Bergquist, Peter Carlberg, Ika Nord, Mikael Rahm, Kark-Robert
Lindgren, Anders T. Peedu |
|
"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
Richard Curtis, Leonardo Garcia-Tsao, John Anderson, Tom Charity, David Sterritt. |
|
Amazon
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Synecdoche,
New York |
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Charlie
Kaufman (83) |
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2008, 124m, Col, USA, Comedy-Drama |
| Philip
Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Sadie Goldstein, Tom Noonan,
Peter Friedman, Charles Techman, Josh Pais, Daniel London,
Robert Seay, Michelle Williams |
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"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 |
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Selected by
Gus Van Sant,
Joseph McBride, David Sterritt, Glenn Kenny, Peter Brunette. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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84 |
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85 |
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86↑ |
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A Christmas
Tale |
|
Arnaud Desplechin (78) |
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| • Un conte de
Noël (original title) |
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2008, 150m, Col, France, Comedy-Drama |
| Catherine
Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Anne Consigny, Mathieu Amalric,
Melvil Poupaud, Hippolyte Girardot, Emmanuelle Devos, Chiara
Mastroianni, Laurent Capelluto, Emile Berling |
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"With at least
nine primary characters and running two and a half hours, it's a
big, fat novel of a movie - a domestic epic that fuses
bitterness and forgiveness in completely satisfying ways." -
Ty Burr, Boston Globe |
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Selected by
Stig Bjorkman, Kent Jones, Graham Fuller, Berenice Reynaud, Tom Charity. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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Black
Swan |
|
Darren Aronofsky
(85) |
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2010, 108m, Col, USA, Drama-Thriller |
| Natalie
Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey, Winona
Ryder, Benjamin Millepied, Ksenia Solo, Kristina Anapau, Janet
Montgomery, Sebastian Stan |
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"This eye-popping, inspired and often-demented (in a good way)
cross between The Red Shoes and All About Eve
channels horror maestros
David Cronenberg,
Brian De Palma
and Dario
Argento." - Lou Lumenick, New York Post |
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Selected by Glenn
Kenny, Richard Brody, Andrew O'Hehir, Claudia Puig, F.X. Feeney. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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The Circle |
|
Jafar
Panahi (97) |
 |
| • Dayereh
(original title) |
| 2000, 90m, Col,
Iran-Italy-Switzerland, Drama |
| Maryam
Parvin Almani, Nargess Mamizadeh, Fereshteh Sadr Orafal, Mojgane
Faramarzi, Elham Saboktakin, Monire Arab, Solmaz Panahi, Fatemeh
Naghavi, Maedeh Tahmasbi, Maryam Shayegane |
| "A triumph of invisible
craftsmanship that embraces so much specific detail that none of
the women ever comes across as an emblem or an abstraction." -
David Chute, LA Weekly |
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Selected by Peter Keough,
David Sterritt, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Gerald Peary, Peter Rainer. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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87 |
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88 |
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89 |
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The House of
Mirth |
|
Terence Davies (82) |
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| 2000, 140m, Col,
UK-USA, Romance-Drama |
| Gillian
Anderson, Eric Stoltz, Dan Aykroyd, Eleanor Bron, Terry Kinney,
Anthony LaPaglia, Laura Linney, Jodhi May, Elizabeth McGovern,
Penny Downie |
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"The House of Mirth is not
one of those teacup and doily movies; it's harsh and disturbing.
Davies does superlatively right
by Wharton. There's blood on the walls." -
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone |
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Selected by Philip
Kemp, Geoff Andrew, Jonathan Romney,
Cameron Crowe, J. Hoberman. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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Almost Famous |
|
Cameron
Crowe (79) |
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| 2000, 122m, Col,
USA, Comedy-Drama-Romance |
| Billy
Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, Jason Lee, Patrick
Fugit, Zooey Deschanel, Michael Angarano, Anna Paquin, Fairuza
Balk, Philip Seymour Hoffman |
|
"What
Mr. Crowe has done is nonetheless remarkable. He has made a
movie about sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll that you would be happy
to take your mother to see." -
A.O. Scott, New York Times |
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Selected by Frank
Darabont, Michael
Wilmington, Kenneth Turan, Roger Ebert, Owen Gleiberman. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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Inland Empire |
|
David
Lynch (87) |
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| 2006, 172m, Col-BW,
USA-Poland-France, Drama-Mystery |
| Karolina
Gruszka, Jan Hencz, Krzysztof Majchrzak, Grace Zabriskie, Laura
Dern, Ian Abercrombie, Karen Baird, Bellina Logan, Amanda
Foreman, Peter J. Lucas |
|
"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 |
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Selected by David
Sterritt, Amy Taubin, Dennis Lim, Michael Atkinson, Peter von
Bagh. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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90↑ |
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91↑ |
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92 |
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Amélie |
|
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
(100) |
 |
| • Le
Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (original title) |
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2001, 122m, Col, France-Germany, Romance-Comedy |
| Audrey
Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Lorella Cravotta, Serge
Merlin, Jamel Debbouze, Claire Maurier, Clotilde Mollet, Yolande
Moreau, Flora Guiet |
|
"A movie for aesthetically hungry moviegoers: wildly amusing,
sometimes sardonic and always touching. There's so much here,
and all of it delightful." -
Desson Thomson, Washington Post |
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Selected by
Michael Wilmington, Elvis Mitchell, Richard Corliss, Joe
Morgenstern, Desson Howe. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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Kill Bill Vol.
1 |
|
Quentin Tarantino (92) |
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| 2003, 111m, Col-BW,
USA, Crime-Action |
| Uma
Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah,
David Carradine, Sonny Chiba, Chiaki Kuriyama, Chia Hui Liu,
Michael Parks |
|
"Reconfirms
Tarantino's status as the
master of pop cinema and puts a sense of excitement into the
year. He has matched, if not eclipsed, the power and scope of
1994's Pulp Fiction, though not its human charm." -
Desson Thomson, Washington Post |
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Selected by
Tom Tykwer,
Roger Ebert, Owen Gleiberman,
Richard Corliss, Peter Travers. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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The Son |
|
Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
(86) |
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| • Le Fils
(original title) |
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2002, 103m, Col, Belgium-France, Drama |
| Olivier
Gourmet, Morgan Marinne, Isabella Soupart, Nassim Hassaini,
Kevin Leroy, Felicien Pitsaer, Remy Renaud, Annette Closset,
Fabian Marnette, Pierre Nisse |
| "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 |
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Selected by Roger Ebert, Nick James, Laurence Kardish, Piers
Handling, Michael Atkinson. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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93 |
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94 |
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95↑ |
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Waltz with
Bashir |
|
Ari Folman
(88) |
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| • Vals Im
Bashir (original title) |
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2008, 90m, Col, Israel-Germany-France-USA,
Animated-Biography-Drama |
| Ori Sivan,
Ronny Dayag, Shmuel Frenkel, Professor Zahava Solomon, Ron Ben-Yishai,
Dror Harazi, Boaz Rein-Buskila, Carmi Cna'an, Miki Leon,
Yehezkel Lazarov |
| "A
bravura documentary which balances the personal and the
political as it peers into the First Lebanon War, its animated
approach never feeling like a novelty. Astonishing,
unforgettable: you have to see it." -
Dan Jolin, Empire |
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Selected by
Peter Bradshaw, David Sterritt, Michael Atkinson, Gerald Peary, Peter Keough. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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The
Kids Are All Right |
|
Lisa
Cholodenko (89) |
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2010, 106m, Col, USA, Comedy-Drama |
| Annette
Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska, Josh
Hutcherson, Yaya DaCosta, Kunal Sharma, Eddie Hassell, Zosia
Mamet, Joaquin Garrido |
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"The movie we've been waiting for all year: a comedy that
doesn't take cheap shots, a drama that doesn't manipulate, a
movie of ideas that doesn't preach. It's a rich, layered, juicy
film, with quiet revelations punctuated by big laughs. " -
Dana Stevens,
Slate |
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Selected by A.O.
Scott, Carrie Rickey, David Ansen, Michael Sragow, Owen
Gleiberman. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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A Separation |
|
Asghar
Farhadi
new
|
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| •
Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (original title) |
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2011, 123m, Col, Iran, Drama |
|
Peyman Maadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat,
Shahab Hosseini, Sarina Farhadi, Merila Zare'i, Ali-Asghar
Shahbazi, Babak Karimi, Kimia Hosseini, Shirin Yazdanbakhsh |
| "A
Separation is totally foreign and achingly familiar. It's a
thrilling domestic drama that offers acute insights into human
motivations and behavior as well as a compelling look at what
goes on behind a particular curtain that almost never gets
raised." -
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times |
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Selected by
Marshall Fine, Ty Burr, Roger Ebert, Todd
McCarthy, Kenneth Turan. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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96 |
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97 |
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98↑ |
|
Gosford Park |
|
Robert Altman (95) |
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| 2001, 137m, Col,
UK-USA, Comedy-Mystery-Drama |
| Eileen
Atkins, Bob Balaban, Alan Bates, Michael Gambon, Charles Dance,
Tom Hollander, Stephen Fry, Richard E. Grant, Derek Jacobi,
Kelly Macdonald |
|
"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 |
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Selected by Joseph McBride, A.O. Scott, Andrew Sarris,
Molly Haskell,
Martin Scorsese. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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The Headless Woman |
|
Lucrecia Martel
(91) |
 |
| • La Mujer
sin cabeza (original title) |
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2008, 87m, Col, Argentina-France-Italy-Spain,
Drama-Mystery-Thriller |
| Maria
Onetto, Claudia Cantero, Cesar Bordon, Daniel Genoud, Guillermo
Arengo, Ines Efron, Alicia Muxo, Pia Uribelarrea, Maria Vaner |
| "Martel's
vision is so visually rich and complex it borders on the
impressionistic, but The Headless Woman would be nowhere
without the precise tour de force performance by Onetto." -
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle |
|
Selected by
Michael Atkinson, Kent Jones, James Quandt, Amy
Taubin, Tom Charity. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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|
Borat:
Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation
of Kazakhstan |
|
Larry Charles (99) |
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| 2006, 84m, Col,
USA-UK, Comedy |
| Sacha Baron
Cohen, Ken Davitian, Luenell, Pamela Anderson, Bob Barr,
Chester, Charlie |
| "It's screamingly,
hysterically, laugh-through-the-next-joke,
laugh-for-the-next-week funny. It's so inventive…This is a film
by an original and significant comic intelligence." -
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle |
|
Selected by Ty
Burr, J. Hoberman, Manohla Dargis, Michael Sragow, David Ansen. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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99 |
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100 |
|
> 101-150 |
|
Wendy and
Lucy |
|
Kelly
Reichardt (90) |
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|
2008, 80m, Col, USA, Drama |
| Michelle
Williams, Walter Dalton, Larry Fessenden, Will Oldham, John
Robinson, Will Patton, Lucy the Dog, David Koppell, Max Clement,
Sid Shanley |
|
"Improbably,
it's one of the most affecting films of the year, which once
again demonstrates that all you need to make a good movie is
talent." -
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor |
|
Selected by
Michael Atkinson, J. Hoberman, Amy Taubin, Dennis Lim, Phillip
Lopate. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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Moolaadé |
|
Ousmane Sembene
(96) |
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|
2004, 120m, Col, Senegal-Burkina Faso, Drama |
| Fatoumata
Coulibaly, Maimouna Helene Diarra, Salimata Traore, Dominique
Zeida, Mah Compaore, Aminata Dao, Rasmane Ouedraogo, Ousmane
Konate, Bakaramoko Sanogo, Modibo Sangare |
| "To
skip
Moolaadé would be to miss an opportunity to experience
the embracing, affirming, world-changing potential of humanist
cinema at its finest." - A.O. Scott, New York Times |
|
Selected by A.O. Scott, Philip Kemp, Richard Brody, Charles
Tesson, Berenice Reynaud. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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