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About a Boy |
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Paul Weitz & Chris Weitz |
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2002, 101m, Col, Germany-USA-France-UK, Drama-Comedy |
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Hugh Grant, Toni
Collette, Rachel Weisz, Isabel Brook, Sharon Small, Victoria
Smurfit, Nicholas Hoult, Madison Cook, Jordan Cook, Nicholas
Hutchison |
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"It's funny, moving and true, and it respects the audience's
intelligence as much as the characters'. That combination, no
matter the movie's label, deserves to be treasured." - Marc
Caro, Chicago Tribune |
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Selected by Carrie Rickey, Richard Schickel, John Powers, Mike
Clark, Thomas Doherty. |
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Atonement |
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Joe Wright |
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| 2007,
123m, Col, USA-UK-France, Drama-Romance-War |
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James McAvoy, Keira
Knightley, Romola Garai, Saoirse Ronan, Vanessa Redgrave, Brenda
Blethyn, Patrick Kennedy, Benedict Cumberbatch, Juno Temple,
Peter Wight |
| "No
two-hour film could ever capture all the riches of McEwan's
masterly novel. But Wright and Hampton's Atonement comes
tantalizingly close, while adding sensual delights all its own." -
David Ansen, Newsweek |
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Selected by Roger Ebert, Nathan Rabin, Keith
Phipps, Peter Brunette, J.R. Jones. |
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Away from
Her |
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Sarah
Polley |
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| 2006,
109m, Col, Canada-UK-USA, Drama-Romance |
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Julie Christie,
Gordon Pinsent, Olympia Dukakis, Michael Murphy, Kristen
Thomson, Wendy Crewson, Stacey Laberge, Deanna Dezmari, Clare
Coulter, Thomas Hauff |
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"Rarely has love at any age been depicted so honestly on screen.
For such a fully realized portrait to be created by a
28-year-old first-time director is even more remarkable." -
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post |
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Selected by
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Roger Ebert, J.R. Jones, V.A. Musetto, Dana
Stevens. |
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Ballast |
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Lance
Hammer |
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2008, 96m, Col, USA, Drama |
| Michael J.
Smith Sr., JimMyron Ross, Tarra Riggs, Johnny McPhail, Ventress
Bonner, Jimez Alexander, Jean Paul Guillory, Marcus Alexander,
Marquice Alexander, Lawrence Jackson. |
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"A rock-ribbed sense of committed, personal cinema and a
core belief in people being able to pull themselves out of
misery supports Ballast, an extraordinary debut by
editor-writer-director Lance Hammer." - Robert Koehler,
Variety |
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Selected by
Michael Atkinson, Amy Taubin, Chuck Stephens, Adam Nayman, Rob Nelson. |
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Bamako |
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Abderrahmane Sissako |
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| 2006,
117m, Col, France-Mali-USA, Drama |
| Aissa Maiga,
Tiecoura Traore, Maimouna Helene Diarra, Balla Habib Dembele,
Djeneba Kone, Hamadoun Kassogue, Roland Rappaport, Danny Glover,
Elia Suleiman, Zeka Laplaine |
| "As
demonstrated in his previous film, a plangent snapshot of
subsistence called Waiting for Happiness, Sissako is a
poet, and the filmmaking in this new picture is stuff of a
deserving laureate." - Carina Chocano,
Los Angeles Times |
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Selected by
Philip French, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Berenice Reynaud, Michael Sicinski, James
Quandt. |
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Battle in
Heaven |
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Carlos Reygadas |
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| • Batalla en
el cielo (original title) |
| 2005, 97m, Col,
Mexico-France-Germany, Drama |
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Marcos Hernandez,
Anapola Mushkadiz, Berta Ruiz, Rosalinda Ramirez, David
Bornstein, Brenda Angulo, Francisco Martinez El Gato, Omar
Valentin Fernandez, Estela Martinez Tremari, Juan Soria El
Abuelo |
| "Reygadas'
radical rejection of filmmaking conventions is at first
off-putting, but he's able to elicit remarkable performances
from the cast of non-professionals while building tension that
will hold viewers' attention." - V.A. Musetto, New York
Post |
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Selected by Michael Atkinson, Peter Keough, J. Hoberman,
Peter Brunette, Ed Gonzalez. |
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The Beaches of
Agnès |
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Agnès Varda |
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Plages d'Agnès (original title) |
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2008, 110m, Col, France, Documentary-Biography |
| Agnès
Varda, Andre Lubrano, Blaise Fournier, Vincent Fournier, Andree
Vilar, Stephane Vilar, Christophe Vilar, Rosalie Varda, Mathieu
Demy, Christophe Vallaux |
| "A
captivating cine-memoir, impressionistic and surrealistic,
surveying Varda's
formidable career as a still photographer, filmmaker,
documentarian, and life force." - Carrie Rickey,
Philadelphia Inquirer |
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Selected by
Raymond Bellour, David Ansen, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Carrie Rickey,
Berenice Reynaud. |
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Before Night
Falls |
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Julian Schnabel |
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| 2000, 133m, Col,
USA, Drama |
| Javier
Bardem, Johnny Depp, Sean Penn, John Ortiz, Santiago Magill,
Michael Wincott, Najwa Nimri, Alfredo Villa, Hector Babenco,
Jerzy Skolimowski |
| "It's an horrific and
tragic story, but somehow made beautiful through the care and
attention of Schnabel's direction and Bardem's tender,
unforgettable performance." -
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle |
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Selected by B. Ruby Rich,
Peter Keough, Owen Gleiberman, A.O. Scott, Elvis Mitchell. |
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Before the
Devil Knows You're Dead |
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Sidney Lumet |
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| 2007,
117m, Col, USA, Crime-Drama-Thriller |
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Philip Seymour
Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, Marisa Tomei, Rosemary
Harris, Aleksa Palladino, Michael Shannon, Amy Ryan, Brian F.
O'Byrne, Blaine Horton |
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"Compact, nasty, and altogether wonderful, a tale of
brotherly greed and New York comeuppance that shows an old dog
dusting off old tricks using new technology." -
Ty Burr, The Boston Globe |
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Selected by
Phillip Lopate, Peter Keough, Keith Phipps, Robert Koehler,
Jeffrey M. Anderson. |
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Billy
Elliot |
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Stephen Daldry |
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2000, 110m, Col, UK, Drama |
| Julie
Walters, Gary Lewis, Jamie Draven, Jamie Bell, Jean Heywood,
Stuart Wells, Mike Elliot, Janine Birkett, Adam Cooper, Patrick
Malahide |
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"This delightful film, with its surprising depth charges of
emotion, has the feel of a movie that's going to lodge itself in
the public's affections for a long time to come." - David Ansen,
Newsweek |
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Selected by David Ansen, Peter Travers, Mark Caro, Paul Clinton,
Charles Cassady Jr. |
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Blissfully Yours |
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Apichatpong
Weerasethakul |
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| • Sud
sanaeha (original title) |
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2002, 125m, Col, Thailand-France, Romance-Drama |
| Kanokporn
Tongaram, Min Oo, Jenjira Jansuda, Sa-gnad Chaiyapan, Kanitpat
Premkij, Jaruwan Techasatiern |
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"Marks the emergence of one of the more original and promising
new voices to hit the international cinema scene in recent
years." -
Manohla Dargis,
The New York Times |
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Selected by
Phillip Lopate, Gilbert Adair, Paolo Cherchi Usai, Berenice
Reynaud, Tom Charity. |
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Brick |
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Rian Johnson |
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| 2005, 110m, Col,
USA, Mystery-Drama |
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Joseph
Gordon-Levitt, Nora Zehetner, Noah Fleiss, Matt O'Leary, Noah
Segan, Meagan Good, Emilie de Ravin, Brian J. White, Richard
Roundtree, Lukas Haas |
| "A Big Sleep with underage
bozos, a Maltese Falcon where the stuff that dreams are made of
rests in the lockers of a well-worn high school, Brick is a
remarkable oddity, audacious and engaging." - Michael Sragow, Baltimore Sun |
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Selected by Scott Tobias,
Keith Phipps, Mike D'Angelo, Mark Jenkins, Jeffrey M. Anderson. |
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Bright Star |
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Jane Campion |
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2009, 119m, Col, UK-Australia, Biography-Drama-Romance |
| Ben Whishaw,
Abbie Cornish, Kerry Fox, Paul Schneider, Edie Martin, Thomas
Sangster, Gerard Monaco, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Samuel Roukin,
Amanda Hale |
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"Ms.
Campion, with her restless camera movements and
off-center close-ups, films history in the present tense, and
her wild vitality makes this movie romantic in every possible
sense of the word." -
A.O. Scott, The
New York Times |
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Selected by
Pierre Rissient, Lizzie Francke, Michel Ciment, Tom Charity,
Kenneth Turan. |
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Broken Flowers |
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Jim Jarmusch |
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2005, 106m, Col, USA-France, Drama-Comedy |
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Bill Murray,
Jeffrey Wright, Sharon Stone, Julie Delpy, Heather Simms, Brea
Frazier, Frances Conroy, Jessica Lange, Tilda Swinton, Chloe
Sevigny |
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"Funny, bittersweet, its understatement yielding surprising
depth charges, Broken Flowers is a triumph of close observation
and telling details." -
David Ansen, Newsweek |
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Selected by Ty Burr, Kent Jones, Chris Fujiwara, Edward
Crouse, Donna Bowman. |
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Bus 174 |
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Felipe Larceda & José Padilha |
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| • Ônibus 174
(original title) |
| 2002, 119m, Col,
Brazil, Documentary |
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Maria Aparecida,
Captain Batista, Luanna Belmon, Claudete Beltrana, Luciana
Carvalho, Coelho, Damiana, Yvonne Bezera de Mello, Julieta do
Nacimento |
| "Tense, engrossing, and
superbly structured, Bus 174 is not just unforgettable drama but
a skillfully developed argument." -
J. Hoberman, Village Voice |
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Selected by John Anderson,
Stephen Hunter, Scott Tobias, A.O. Scott, Jason Anderson. |
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Che |
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Steven Soderbergh |
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2008, 257m, Col, Spain-France-USA, Biography-Drama |
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Benicio Del Toro,
Demian Bichir, Santiago Cabrera, Rodrigo Santoro, Catalina
Sandino Moreno, Jorge Perugorria, Edgar Ramirez, Victor Rasuk,
Armando Riesco, Unax Ugalde |
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"Che looks dazzling, whether the camera is weaving
through a battle or trying to bore into Che's haunted soul. Del
Toro stands up to
Soderbergh's relentless
scrutiny." - Peter Travers, Rolling Stone |
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Selected by Amy
Taubin, J. Hoberman, Patrick McGavin, Nathan Lee, Glenn Kenny. |
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Chuck & Buck |
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Miguel Arteta |
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| 2000, 95m, Col,
USA, Drama-Comedy |
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Mike White, Chris
Weitz, Lupe Ontiveros, Beth Colt, Paul Weitz, Maya Rudolph, Mary
Wigmore, Paul Sand, Gino Buccola, Annette Murphy |
| "Manages to be not only
consistently droll but cumulatively poignant and even scary." -
J. Hoberman, Village Voice |
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Selected by Nigel Andrews,
Gerald Peary, Owen Gleiberman, A.O. Scott, Mark Caro. |
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Chunhyang |
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Im Kwon-taek |
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Chunhyangdyun (original title) |
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2000, 120m, Col, South Korea, Romance-Drama-Musical |
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Hyo-jeong Lee,
Seung-woo Cho, Sung-nyu Kim, Hak-young Kim, Jung-hun Lee, Ji-yun
Choi, Hae-eun Lee, Kyung-yeun Hong, Sang-hyun Cho, Myung-hwan
Kim |
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"Im Kwon
Taek's exquisite Chunhyang brings to the
screen one of Korea's most cherished folk tales, a timeless
romance in which the lovers are challenged by differences in
class." - Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times |
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Selected by
Jonathan Rosenbaum, David Sterritt, Chris Fujiwara, Ian Bernie,
Tadao Sato. |
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Climates |
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan |
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| • Iklimler
(original title) |
| 2006, 101m, Col,
Turkey-France, Drama |
| Ebru Ceylan,
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Nazan Kirilmis, Mehmet Eryilmaz, Arif Asci,
Can Ozbatur, Ufuk Bayraktar, Fatma Ceylan, M. Emin Ceylan, Semra
Yilmaz |
| "This film paints a
haunting portrait of existential solitude, one in which the
images speak louder and often more forcefully than do any of the
words." - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times |
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Selected by J. Hoberman,
Peter Brunette, Scott Foundas, Michael Phillips, Graham Fuller. |
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Code Unknown |
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Michael Haneke |
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| • Code
inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages (original title) |
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2000, 116m, Col, France-Germany-Romania, Drama |
| Juliette
Binoche, Thierry Neuvic, Josef Bierbichler, Alexandre Hamidi,
Maimouna Helene Diarra, Ona Lu Yenke, Djibril Kouyate, Luminita
Gheorghiu, Crenguta Hariton, Bob Nicolaescu |
| "Haneke
brings his usual dark sensibility to bear on the multifaceted
story, expressing the fractured quality of modern city life
through scenes that wander through a labyrinth of missing links
and lost connections." - David Sterritt, Christian Science
Monitor |
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Selected by Robin
Wood, Tom Charity, Mike D'Angelo, Mark Holcomb, Melissa
Anderson. |
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Coraline |
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Henry Selick |
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2009, 101m, Col, USA, Animated-Adventure-Fantasy |
| Dakota
Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Keith
David, John Hodgman, Robert Bailey Jr., Ian McShane, Aankha
Neal, George Selick |
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"This is a marvelous family story, tapping into all sorts of
childhood dreams and nightmares involving Mommy, monsters and
heroic youngsters.
Selick's imaginative sets and
puppets are in perfect pitch with Gaiman's fantasy." - Kirk
Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter |
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Selected by J.
Hoberman, Jeannette Catsoulis, Todd McCarthy, Carrie Rickey,
Michael Koresky. |
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The Day I
Became a Woman |
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Marzieh Meshkini |
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| • Roozi ke
zan shodam (original title) |
| 2000, 77m, Col,
Iran, Drama |
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Fatemeh Cherag
Akhar, Hassan Nebhan, Shahr Banou Sisizadeh, Ameneh Passand,
Shabnam Toloui, Sirous Kahvarinegad, Mahram Zeinal Zadeh, Norieh
Mahigiran, Azizeh Sedighi, Badr Iravani |
| "What you're not prepared
for in Marziyeh Meshkini's astonishing debut film is the way its
central image instantly leaps into the pantheon of world cinema
with a rightness and an urgency that glue your eyes to the
screen." -
Jay Carr, Boston Globe |
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Selected by David Sterritt,
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Michael Atkinson, Jay Carr, Robert Koehler. |
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The Deep
End |
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Scott McGehee & David Siegel |
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2001, 100m, Col, USA, Drama-Crime |
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Tilda Swinton,
Goran Visnjic, Jonathan Tucker, Peter Donat, Raymond J. Barry,
Josh Lucas, Tamara Hope, Jordon Dorrance, Heather Mathieson,
Holmes Osborne |
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"Exquisitely made with a mesmerizing sense of style, it shows
the wonderful things that can happen when traditional material
is both handled with care and adroitly updated." - Kenneth Turan,
Los Angeles Times |
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Selected by Richard Schickel, Kenneth Turan, B. Ruby Rich, David
Ehrenstein, Jay Carr. |
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Dirty Pretty
Things |
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Stephen Frears |
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| 2002, 97m, Col,
USA-UK, Thriller-Drama |
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Chiwetel Ejiofor,
Audrey Tautou, Sergi Lopez, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Wong,
Zlatko Buric, Kriss Dosanjh, Israel Aduramo, Yemi Ajibade,
Jean-Philippe Ecoffey |
| "This is a film that
insinuates itself deeply into our awareness. It's that rare pulp
story with something on its mind, an unnerving, socially
conscious thriller with a killer sense of narrative drive." -
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times |
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Selected by David Ansen,
Philip French, Stephen Hunter, Ann Hornaday, Carla Meyer. |
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The Duchess
of Langeais |
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Jacques
Rivette |
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| • Ne touchez
pas la hache (original title); Don't Touch the Axe (alternative
title) |
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2007, 137m, Col, France-Italy, Drama-Romance |
| Jeanne
Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu, Bulle Ogier, Michel Piccoli, Anne
Cantineau, Marc Barbe, Thomas Durand, Nicholas Bouchaud, Mathias
Jung, Julie Judd |
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"Jacques
Rivette has brought the Balzac short story to screen
as a superb chamber drama. His is a graceful work of austerity
and formality that perfectly captures the chaos of repressed
emotions that see beneath the rigid conventions of aristocratic
society." - Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times |
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Selected by
Jonathan Romney, Graham Fuller, Melissa Anderson, Mike D'Angelo, Glenn Kenny. |
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The Edge of
Heaven |
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Fatih Akin |
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| • Auf der
anderen Seite (original title) |
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2007, 121m, Col, Germany-Turkey-Italy, Drama |
| Nurgul
Yesilcay, Baki Davrak, Tuncel Kurtiz, Hanna Schygulla, Patrycia
Ziolkowska, Nursel Kose, Ali Akdeniz, Aliye Alioglu, Asuman
Altinay, Onder Cakar |
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"With impeccable skill, Akin has made a film roiling with
cruelty but guided by tough political optimism. No, we can't all
get along, but some us of are trying." - Wesley Morris,
Boston Globe |
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Selected by
Dudley Andrew, Graham Fuller, Saul Austerlitz, Daryl Chin, J.R. Jones, Charles
Taylor. |
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Faithless |
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Liv Ullmann |
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| • Trolösa
(original title) |
| 2000, 153m, Col,
Sweden-Norway-Finland-Italy-Germany, Romance-Drama |
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Lena Endre, Erland
Josephson, Thomas Hanzon, Michelle Gylemo, Juni Dahr, Philip
Zanden, Therese Brunnander, Marie Richardson, Stina Ekblad |
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"82-year-old
Ingmar Bergman takes one of the
most painful, shameful episodes of his own life and, writing for
director Liv Ullmann, transmutes it into magical, brilliant
artistry." -
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune |
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Selected by Richard Schickel, Manohla Dargis, Gerald Peary, Chris Chang, Stephen Holden. |
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The
Fighter |
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David O. Russell |
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2010, 115m, Col, USA, Biography-Drama-Sports |
| Mark
Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo, Mickey
O'Keefe, Jack McGee, Melissa McMeekin, Bianca Hunter, Erica
McDermott, Jill Quigg |
| "It's
a film possessed of its own force, wit and style, and it builds
to a rousing climax that absolutely pays off in crowd-pleasing
fashion. It knows what it is, doesn't try to be what it's not,
and hits you with drop-dead force. In short, it's terrific." -
Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian |
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Selected by David
Denby, Ty Burr, Andrew O'Hehir, Joe Morgenstern, Wesley Morris. |
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The Five
Obstructions |
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Jørgen Leth &
Lars von Trier |
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| • De Fem
benspænd (original title) |
| 2003, 90m, Col-BW,
Denmark-Belgium,
Documentary |
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Jorgen Leth, Lars
von Trier, Daniel Hernandez Rodriguez, Jacqueline Arenal, Vivian
Rosa, Alexandra Vandernoot, Patrick Bauchau, Marie Dejaer,
Meschell Perezx |
| "Part of what hooks you to this
movie is how Leth outsmarts his taskmaster, and how the two men
have divergent, almost incompatible aesthetic ideals." -
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe |
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Selected by John Anderson,
Kenneth Turan, Richard Corliss, Ron Stringer, Justine Elias. |
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Gomorrah |
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Matteo Garrone |
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| • Gomorra
(original title) |
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2008, 137m, Col, Italy, Crime-Drama |
| Toni
Servillo, Gianfelice Imparato, Maria Nazionale, Salvatore
Cantalupo, Gigio Morra, Salvatore Abruzzese, Marco Macor, Ciro
Petrone, Carmine Paternoster, Antonio Aiello |
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"Part of what's bracing about Gomorrah, and makes it feel
different from so many American crime movies, is both its deadly
serious take on violence and its global understanding of how far
and wide the mob's tentacles reach, from high fashion to the
very dirt." - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times |
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Selected by Piers
Handling, Graham Fuller, Chuck Stephens, Robert Koehler,
Jeannette Catsoulis. |
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Howl's
Moving Castle |
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Hayao
Miyazaki |
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| • Hauru no
ugoku shiro (original title) |
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2004, 119m, Col, Japan, Animated-Adventure-Fantasy |
| Chieko
Baisho, Takuya Kimura, Akihiro Miwa, Tatsuya Gashuin, Ryunosuke
Kamiki, Mitsunori Isaki, Yo Oizumi, Akio Otsuka, Daijiro Harada,
Haruko Kato |
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"Howl's Moving Castle is one animated epic that has
it all: poetic intensity, potent storytelling, vivid and
surprising characters, and intoxicating powers of visual
imagination." - Michael Sragow, Baltimore Sun |
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Selected by
Sukhdev Sandhu, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Kenneth Turan, Michael Wilmington, Tom Charity. |
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Amazon
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I Heart
Huckabees |
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David
O. Russell |
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| • I Love
Huckabees (alternative title) |
| 2004, 106m, Col,
Germany-USA-UK, Comedy |
| Dustin
Hoffman, Isabelle Huppert, Jude Law, Jason Schwartzman, Lily
Tomlin, Mark Wahlberg, Naomi Watts, Angela Grillo, Kevin Dunn,
Tippi Hedren |
| "A fresh, buoyant,
mischievous and rather jolly meditation - if that's the word for
a movie as divinely nuts as this one is - on the meaning of life
in an unhappy world." - Ella Taylor, LA Weekly |
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Selected by Gavin
Smith, David Ehrenstein,
Glenn Kenny, Carina Chocano, Saul Austerlitz. |
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Amazon
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Into the
Wild |
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Sean Penn |
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| 2007,
140m, Col, USA, Adventure-Biography-Drama |
| Emile
Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Jena Malone, Brian
Dierker, Catherine Keener, Vince Vaughn, Kristen Stewart, Hal
Holbrook, Thure Lindhardt |
| "The
beauty of Into the Wild, which
Penn has written and directed
with magnificent precision and imaginative grace, is that what
Christopher is running from is never as important as what he's
running TO." -
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly |
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Selected by
David Ehrenstein, Gerald Peary, Roger Ebert, Tom Charity, Thomas Doherty. |
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Iraq in Fragments |
|
James Longley |
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2006, 94m, Col, USA, Documentary |
| Mohammed
Haithem, Sheik Aws Al Kafaji |
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"Much as
Emile de Antonio's neglected In the Year of the
Pig (1968) may be the only major documentary about Vietnam
that actually considers the Vietnamese, this film allows the
people of Iraq to speak, and what they say is fascinating
throughout." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader |
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Selected by
Jeanine Basinger, A.O. Scott, Kenneth Turan, Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Gary Crowdus. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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Keane |
|
Lodge Kerrigan |
 |
| 2004, 100m, Col,
USA, Thriller-Drama |
| Damian
Lewis, Abigail Breslin, Liza Colon-Zayas, Amy Ryan, John Tormey,
Brenda Denmark, Christopher Evan Welch, Lev Gorn, Tina Holmes,
Mellini Kantayya |
| "Lodge Kerrigan is one of
the great, though largely unheralded, filmmakers of our time,
and with Keane, his third feature, he finally shows himself to
be in full command of his uncompromising talent." -
Marjorie Baumgarten, Austin Chronicle |
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Selected by Michael Atkinson,
Jonathan Romney, Kevin Thomas, Leslie Camhi, Anthony Kaufman. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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King Kong |
|
Peter Jackson |
 |
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2005, 187m, Col, New Zealand-USA, Action-Adventure-Fantasy |
| Naomi
Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin
Hanks, Andy Serkis, Evan Parke, Jamie Bell, Lobo Chan, John
Sumner |
|
"Break out the popcorn and prepare to be blown away. King Kong
is the most pulse-pounding and heart-stirring romantic
adventure since Titanic." - Lou Lumenick, New York Post |
|
Selected by Frank Darabont, Michael Wilmington, Roger Ebert, Keith Phipps,
Lisa Schwarzbaum. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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Kung Fu Hustle |
|
Stephen Chow |
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| • Kung fu (original title) |
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2004, 98m, Col, Hong Kong-China, Action-Comedy-Crime |
| Stephen
Chow, Yuen Wah, Qiu Yuen, Leung Siu Lung, Dong Zhi Hua, Chiu Chi
Ling, Xing Yu, Chan Kwok Kwan, Sheng Yi Huang, Xiaogang Feng |
|
"Gut-Bustingly funny moves are pretty rare, so hustle over to
Kung Fu Hustle, actor-director Ste phen Chow's
exhilaratingly hilarious and affectionate send-up of Hong Kong
action flicks." -
Lou Lumenick, New
York Post |
|
Selected by Tom
Charity, Adrian Martin, Dave Kehr, Nathan Rabin, Nathan Lee. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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Land of the
Dead |
|
George
A. Romero |
 |
| 2005, 93m, Col,
USA-Canada-France, Action-Horror-Thriller |
|
Simon Baker, John
Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Asia Argento, Robert Joy, Eugene
Clark, Joanne Boland, Tony Nappo, Jennifer Baxter, Boyd Banks |
|
"One of the enormous pleasures
of genre filmmaking is watching great directors push against
form and predictability, as
Mr.
Romero does brilliantly in Land of the Dead." -
Manohla Dargis, New York Times |
|
Selected by Dave Kehr, Chris
Fujiwara, Tom Charity, Scott Foundas, Mike D'Angelo. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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Late Marriage |
|
Dover Kosashvili |
 |
| • Hatuna
Meuheret (original title) |
| 2001, 102m, Col,
Israel-France, Comedy-Drama-Romance |
| Lior Louie
Ashkenazi, Ronit Elkabetz, Moni Moshonov, Lili Kosashvili, Aya
Steinovits Laor, Rozina Cambos, Simon Chen, Sapir Kugman, Livia
Chachmon Ayaliy, Maria Ovanov |
| "So intimate and sensual
and funny and psychologically self-revealing that it makes most
of what passes for sex in the movies look like cheap hysterics." -
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine |
|
Selected by J. Hoberman,
Chris Chang, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Alice Lovejoy, Leslie Camhi. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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The Magdalene
Sisters |
|
Peter Mullan |
 |
| 2002, 119m, Col,
UK-Ireland, Drama |
|
Geraldine McEwan,
Anne-Marie Duff, Nora-Jane Noone, Dorothy Duffy, Eileen Walsh,
Mary Murray, Britta Smith, Frances Healy, Eithne McGuinness,
Phyllis MacMahon |
| "A stirring, emotionally
galvanizing film, not only due to its shattering subject matter
but thanks to Mullan's spot-on eye for casting and fluid,
uncoercive style." -
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post |
|
Selected by Owen Gleiberman,
Michael Wilmington, Ty Burr, Gerald Peary, V.A. Musetto. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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The Man Who
Wasn't There |
|
Joel Coen
and Ethan Coen |
 |
| 2001, 116m, BW,
USA-UK, Drama-Crime-Comedy |
| Billy Bob
Thornton, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, James Gandolfini,
Katherine Borowitz, Jon Polito, Scarlett Johansson, Richard
Jenkins, Tony Shalhoub, Christopher Kriesa |
|
"Most of the way this ranks
with the Coens' most immaculately
crafted work. Cain would have loved its dreamlike chills, and so
will audiences nostalgic for the movies of half a century ago." -
David Sterritt, Christian Science
Monitor |
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Selected by David Sterritt,
Kent Jones, A.O. Scott, Scott Tobias, Keith Phipps. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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Match Point |
|
Woody
Allen |
 |
| 2005, 124m, Col,
UK, Crime-Drama-Thriller |
| Scarlett
Johansson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Brian Cox, Matthew Goode,
Emily Mortimer, Penelope Wilton, Ewen Bremner, James Nesbitt,
Rupert Penry Jones, Alexander Armstrong |
|
"The gloom of random,
meaningless existence has rarely been so much fun, and
Mr. Allen's bite has never been so
sharp, or so deep. A movie this good is no laughing matter." -
A.O. Scott, New York Times |
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Selected by Owen Gleiberman,
Kent Jones, Molly Haskell, A.O. Scott, Phillip Lopate. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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Me and You and
Everyone We Know |
|
Miranda July |
 |
| 2005, 91m, Col,
USA-UK-Japan, Drama-Comedy |
|
John Hawkes,
Miranda July, Miles Thompson, Brandon Ratcliff, Carlie Westerman,
Hector Elias, Brad Henke, Natasha Slayton, Najarra Townsend,
Tracy Wright |
| "Performance artist Miranda July
hits a grand slam as the writer, director and star of her first
film. It's a moonbeam romance laced with startling wit and
gravity." -
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone |
|
Selected by Alice Lovejoy, Ed
Park, David Edelstein, J.R. Jones, Nathan Rabin. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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Michael
Clayton |
|
Tony Gilroy |
 |
| 2007,
119m, Col, USA, Drama-Thriller |
|
George Clooney, Tom
Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Michael O'Keefe, Sydney Pollack,
Danielle Skraastad, Wai Chan, Alberto Vazquez, Brian Koppelman,
Denis O'Hare |
| "At
once spare and dense, chilly and thrilling, literate and
visceral, it feeds in gray areas, teasing ambiguities and
conundrums out of shadows and making strengths of
inconclusiveness and uncertainty." - Shawn Levy, Portland
Oregonian |
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Selected by
David Sterritt, Michael Atkinson, Saul Austerlitz, Peter
Brunette, Mark Olsen. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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Mysterious
Skin |
|
Gregg
Araki |
 |
| 2004, 105m, Col,
USA-Netherlands, Drama |
|
Brady Corbet,
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michelle Trachtenburg, Elisabeth Shue,
Bill Sage, Jeffrey Licon, Lisa Long, Chase Ellison, Mary Lynn
Rajskub, George Webster |
| "Explores both prepubescent
and teen sexuality with an honesty that may make some people
uncomfortable, which is a sign of its potency, and a badge of
honor." -
David Ansen, Newsweek |
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Selected by David Ehrenstein, A.O. Scott,
Kevin Thomas, B. Kite, Ed Gonzalez. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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Of Time and the
City |
|
Terence Davies |
 |
|
2008, 72m, Col-BW, UK, Documentary |
| Terence
Davies (narrator) |
|
"It is a deeply personal piece of art that never descends into
the confessional or the therapeutic, and a work of social and
literary criticism that never lectures or hectors, but rather,
with melancholy, tenderness and wit, manages to sing." -
A.O. Scott, The
New York Times |
|
Selected by Piers
Handling, Geoff Andrew, Phillip Lopate, Jonathan Rosenbaum,
David Ehrenstein. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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Paradise
Now |
|
Hany Abu-Assad |
 |
|
2005, 90m, Col, France-Germany-Netherlands-Israel, Drama-Crime |
| Kais Nashef,
Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal, Arner Hiehel, Hiam Abbass, Ashraf
Barhoum, Hamza Abu-Aiiaash, Lotuf Neusser, Mohammad Bustami,
Ahmad Fares |
| "A
powerful, poignant, provocative drama, it gets its strength from
its dispassion, from an uncompromising determination to explain
rather than justify or condemn, to put a human face on
incomprehensible acts." - Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times |
|
Selected by Leonard Maltin, Carrie Rickey, Kenneth Turan, Kent Jones,
Daryl Chin. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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Private Fears in
Public Places |
|
Alain Resnais |
 |
| • Coeurs (original title) |
|
2006, 120m, Col, France-Italy, Drama |
| Sabine
Azema, Lambert Wilson, Andre Dussollier, Pierre Arditi, Laura
Morante, Isabelle Carre, Claude Rich, Francoise Gillard, Anne
Kessler, Roger Mollien |
|
"Resnais
employs all the tools of studio-bound moviemaking, silent-era to
post-modern, in a way that is not only is consistently dazzling
in a purely visual sense, but contains an empathy that lifts the
picture to tragic heights even at those points at which it seems
practically weightless." - Glenn Kenny, Premiere |
|
Selected by
Gilbert Adair, Bill Krohn, Peter von Bagh,
Arnaud
Desplechin, Richard Combs. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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| The Proposition |
| John Hillcoat |
 |
| 2005, 104m, Col,
UK-Australia,
Drama-Crime-Western |
|
Guy Pearce, Ray
Winstone, Danny Huston, Tom Budge, Emily Watson, David Wenham,
John Hurt, David Gulpilil, Leah Purcell, Noah Taylor |
| "Directed by John Hillcoat, this Aussie
feature perfectly re-creates the charbroiled landscapes and
cruel psychodrama of the old Sergio Leone westerns, with John
Hurt particularly fine as a raging old mountain goat." -
J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader |
| Selected by Andrew O'Hehir, Lisa
Schwarzbaum, J.R. Jones, Graham Fuller, Sean Axmaker. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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|
Rabbit-Proof
Fence |
|
Phillip
Noyce |
 |
| 2002, 93m, Col,
Australia-UK, Drama-Adventure |
|
Everlyn Sampi,
Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, David Gulpilil, Ningali Lawford,
Myarn Lawford, Deborah Mailman, Jason Clarke, Kenneth Branagh,
Natasha Wanganeen |
|
"Noyce
uses his Hollywood craft to unfold this primal, powerful story,
he has an epic feel for the harshly beautiful Australian
landscape and he gets wonderfully natural performances from the
three girls." -
David Ansen, Newsweek |
|
Selected by Ty Burr, Ann Hornaday, Shawn Levy, James
Berardinelli, Joe Morgenstern. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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Ray |
|
Taylor Hackford |
 |
| 2004, 152m, Col,
USA-UK, Musical-Drama-Biography |
|
Jamie Foxx, Kerry
Washington, Clifton Powell, Regina King, Harry J. Lennix, Bokeem
Woodbine, Aunjanue Ellis, Sharon Warren, Terrence Howard, Larenz
Tate |
|
"Bursting at the seams with
music,
Taylor Hackford's
ambitious film provides a good sense of the pioneering
entertainer's extraordinary journey and brings it to life with
plenty of colorful detail." - Todd McCarthy, Variety |
|
Selected by Owen Gleiberman,
Michael Wilmington, Joe Morgenstern, Richard Corliss, Joel
Siegel. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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Reprise |
|
Joachim
Trier |
 |
|
2006, 107m, Col, Norway-Sweden, Drama |
|
Espen Klouman
Hoiner, Anders Danielsen Lie, Viktoria Winge, Pal Stokka,
Christian Rubeck, Odd Magnus Williamson, Henrik Elvestad, Henrik
Mestad, Rebekka Karijord, Sigmund Saeverud |
|
"Reprise is kissed with the breath of French New
Wave sensibility, sweet with verve and a love of forward
movement. The mood of joy in the midst of youthful pain is
enhanced by the freshness of the first-time lead actors." -
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly |
|
Selected by
Gerald Peary, Chuck Wilson, Nathan Rabin, Mark Jenkins, David
Fear. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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Shattered
Glass |
|
Billy Ray |
 |
| 2003, 95m, Col,
USA-Canada, Drama |
|
Hayden Christensen,
Peter Sarsgaard, Chloe Sevigny, Rosario Dawson, Melanie Lynskey,
Hank Azaria, Mark Blum, Simone-Elise Girard, Steve Zahn, Ted
Kotcheff |
| "An astute and surprisingly
gripping drama not only about the ethics of magazine writing,
but also, more generally, about the subtle political and
psychological dynamics of modern office culture." -
A.O. Scott, The New York Times |
|
Selected by Michael Sragow,
Gerald Peary, Stephen Hunter, Mick LaSalle, Noel Murray. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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Southland
Tales |
|
Richard
Kelly |
 |
|
2006, 144m, Col, Germany-USA-France, Comedy-Drama-Science
Fiction |
|
Dwayne Johnson,
Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Curtis Armstrong,
Bai Ling, Cheri Oteri, Will Sasso, John Larroquette, Jon Lovitz,
Wallace Shawn |
|
"Funny, audacious, messy and feverishly inspired look at America
and its discontents." - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times |
|
Selected by J. Hoberman, Kent Jones, Mark Peranson, Mark Olsen,
Rob Nelson. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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Spider-Man 2 |
|
Sam Raimi
|
 |
| 2004, 127m, Col,
USA, Action-Fantasy-Science Fiction |
|
Tobey Maguire,
Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Alfred Molina, Rosemary Harris, J.K.
Simmons, Donna Murphy, Daniel Gillies, Dylan Baker, Bill Nunn |
| "The filmmakers smartly
counter heavy drama with goofy comedy, mining a rich vein of
humor in the juxtaposition of the mundane and the superheroic." -
Nathan Rabin, The Onion A.V. Club |
|
Selected by Michael Sragow, Roger Ebert, Mike Clark, Chris
Kaltenbach, Peter Brunette. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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|
Springtime in
a Small Town |
|
Tian Zhuangzhuang |
 |
| • Xiao cheng
zhi chun (original title) |
| 2002, 116m, Col,
China-Hong Kong-France, Romance-Drama |
|
Jingfan Hu, Jun Wu,
Bai Qing Xin, Xiao Keng Ye, Si Si Lu |
| "This erotically charged drama
may not be quite as great as the original, but it's an amazing
and beautiful work just the same." -
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by Chris Fujiwara,
J. Hoberman, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Kent Jones, Doug Cummings. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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The Station Agent |
|
Thomas McCarthy |
 |
|
2003, 88m, Col, USA, Drama-Comedy |
|
Peter Dinklage,
Patricia Clarkson, Bobby Cannavale, Paul Benjamin, Jase
Blankfort, Paula Garces, Josh Pais, Richard Kind, Raven Goodwin,
Michelle Williams |
|
"Its charming story of the delicate intersection of three highly
individual lives is the kind of completely personal yet
universal film that the festival and the entire independent
movement came into being to celebrate." -
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times |
|
Selected by Jami Bernard, Peter Brunette, Ann Hornaday,
Ruthe Stein, Megan Lehmann. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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Still Walking |
|
Hirokazu Koreeda |
 |
| • Aruitemo
aruitemo (original title) |
|
2008, 114m, Col, Japan, Drama |
| Hiroshi
Abe, Yui Natsukawa, You, Kazuya Takahashi, Shohei Tanaka, Kirin
Kiki, Yoshio Harada, Ryoga Hayashi, Haruka Kato, Hotaru Nomoto |
|
"Painful family issues are more likely to stay beneath the
surface, known to everyone but not spoken of. Still Walking,
a magnificent new film from Japan, is very wise about that, and
very true." -
Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times |
|
Selected by
Berenice Reynaud, Tom Charity, David Ansen, David Fear, Michael
Koresky. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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|
Syriana |
|
Stephen Gaghan |
 |
| 2005, 126m, Col,
USA, Thriller-Drama |
|
George Clooney,
Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Christopher Plummer, Chris Cooper,
William Hurt, Mazhar Munir, Tim Blake Nelson, Amanda Peet,
Alexander Siddig |
| "Takes off with the
lightning speed of a thriller, the gonzo force of frontline
journalism and the emotional wallop of a drama that puts a human
face on shocking statistics." - Peter Travers, Rolling
Stone |
|
Selected by Carrie Rickey,
Roger Ebert, F.X. Feeney, Cynthia Fuchs, Saul Austerlitz. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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|
A Time for
Drunken Horses |
|
Bahman Ghobadi |
 |
| • Zamani
barayé masti asbha (original title) |
| 2000, 80m, Col,
Iran, Drama |
| Nezhad
Ekhtiar-Dini, Ameneh Ekhtiari, Mehdi Ekhtiar-Dini, Ayoub Ahmadi,
Roujin Younesi, Kolssom Ekhtiar-Dini, Karim Ekhtiar-Dini, Rahman
Salehi, Osman Karimi |
| "Presents us with
characters of such humanity and dignity that it begins to seem
obscene that until now we haven't exactly given all that much
thought to the Kurds." - Mick LaSalle, San Francisco
Chronicle |
|
Selected by
Gillies
MacKinnon, Michael Atkinson, Robert Sklar, Jay
Carr, Sam Adams. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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|
Time of the
Wolf |
|
Michael Haneke |
 |
| • Le Temps du
loup (original title) |
| 2003, 113m, Col,
France-Austria-Germany, Drama |
|
Isabelle Huppert,
Maurice Benichou, Lucas Biscombe, Anais Demoustier, Patrice
Chereau, Beatrice Dalle, Olivier Gourmet, Daniel Duval, Maryline
Even, Serge Riaboukine |
|
"Haneke
demonstrates profound insight into the essence of human behavior
when all humility is pared away, raw panic and despair are the
order of the day, and man becomes more like wolf than man." -
Scott Foundas, Variety |
|
Selected by Michael Atkinson,
Manohla Dargis, Robert Koehler, Leslie Camhi, Saul Austerlitz. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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|
Tristram
Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story |
|
Michael Winterbottom |
 |
| • A Cock and
Bull Story (alternative title) |
|
2005, 94m, Col, UK, Comedy |
| Steve
Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes, Shirley Henderson, Dylan
Moran, David Walliams, Jeremy Northam, Benedict Wong, Naomie
Harris, Kelly Macdonald |
|
"This is not just a movie-within-a-movie, but a
movie-within-a-movie-within-a-movie, something that sounds
unbearably arch but that is swift, funny and surprisingly
unpretentious." - Dana Stevens, The New York Times |
|
Selected by Leonard Maltin, Peter Keough, Molly Haskell, Sam Adams, Carina
Chocano. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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|
12:08 East
of Bucharest |
|
Corneliu Porumboiu |
 |
| • A fost sau
n-a fost? (original title) |
| 2006,
89m, Col, Romania-France, Comedy-Drama |
| Mircea
Andreescu, Teodor Corban, Ion Sapdaru, Mirela Cioaba, Luminata
Gheorghiu, Cristina Ciofu, Lucian Iftime, Annemarie Chertic,
Petrika Sapdaru, Catalin Paraschiv |
|
"This brilliantly caustic movie - easily the best in a
burgeoning and fertile effort to come to grips with post-Soviet
malaise in Central and Eastern Europe - offers living proof that
when it comes to politics, comedy is the sincerest form of
dissidence." -
Ella Taylor, LA Weekly |
|
Selected by
Laurence Kardish, Michael Atkinson, Jeffrey M. Anderson, V.A. Musetto, Sam Adams. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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Under
the Sand |
|
François Ozon |
 |
| • Sous le
sable (original title) |
|
2000, 96m, Col, France-Japan, Drama |
| Charlotte
Rampling, Bruno Cremer, Jacques Nolot, Alexandra Stewart, Pierre
Vernier, Andree Tainsy, Maya Gaugler, Damien Abbou, David
Portugais, Pierre Soubestre |
| "A
beautifully acted, carefully written meditation on one woman's
grief, the enigma of imagination, the persistence of desire and
-- let's face it -- the power of denial." - Bill Gallo, New
Times L.A. |
|
Selected by Dennis Lim, Chris Fujiwara, Desson Howe, Jessica
Winter, Mike Rubin. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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|
Va savoir |
|
Jacques Rivette |
 |
| 2001, 154m, Col,
France-Italy-Germany, Romance-Drama-Comedy |
|
Jeanne Balibar,
Sergio Castellitto, Marianne Basler, Helene de Fougerolles,
Catherine Rouvel, Jacques Bonnaffe, Bruno Todeschini, Claude
Berri, Attilo Cucari, Bettina Kee |
| "Va savoir doesn't so much flow as wander, trailing off into drama
one minute, slapstick the next; it tries your patience, but ever
so gently, masterfully." - Manohla Dargis, LA Weekly |
|
Selected by David Sterritt,
Chris Fujiwara, David Ehrenstein, Elvis Mitchell, Chris Chang. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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|
Where the Wild
Things Are |
|
Spike Jonze |
 |
|
2009, 101m, Col, USA, Adventure-Drama-Family |
| Max
Records, Pepita Emmerichs, Max Pfeifer, Madeleine Greaves,
Joshua Jay, Ryan Corr, Catherine Keener, Steve Mouzakis, Mark
Ruffalo, James Gandolfini |
|
"Not since
Robert Altman took on Popeye a generation ago,
and lost, has a major director addressed such a well-loved,
all-ages title. This time everything works, from tip to tail." -
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune |
|
Selected by A.O.
Scott, Ed Gonzalez, John Powers, Peter Keough, Lisa Schwarzbaum. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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Plus, films that exited
(and have not returned) from the January 2008 list: The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter
Salles), Cold Mountain (Anthony
Minghella), Junebug (Phil
Morrison), A Scanner Darkly (Richard
Linklater), Lovely & Amazing (Nicole
Holofcener), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John
Cameron Mitchell), The Others (Alejandro
Amenábar), The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
(Tommy Lee Jones), Whale Rider (Niki Caro),
Bamboozled (Spike
Lee), The Barbarian Invasions
(Denys Arcand),
The Quiet American (Phillip
Noyce), Little Children (Todd Field), The
Darjeeling Limited (Wes
Anderson), The Savages (Tamara
Jenkins), Ali (Michael
Mann), Cowards Bend the Knee (Guy
Maddin), La Ciénaga (Lucrecia
Martel), The Saddest Music in the World (Guy
Maddin), The Return
(Andrey Zvyagintsev),
Solaris (Steven
Soderbergh), Lantana (Ray
Lawrence), The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the
Politics of Fear (Adam Curtis), Day
Night Day Night (Julia Loktev). |
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