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° SANDS OF IWO JIMA (1949/USA) Allan Dwan W Ozu's World Movie Reviews

° CINEMANIA (2002/Germany-USA) Angela Christlieb & Stephen Kijak W metacritic

° THE THIRD SECRET (1964/UK) Charles Crichton W Sight & Sound

° 3 BAD MEN (1926/USA) John Ford R IMDB

° THE PAINTED VEIL (2006/USA-China) John Curran W metacritic

° JUST BEFORE NIGHTFALL (1971/France-Italy) Claude Chabrol R Time Out

° THE CHILDREN ARE WATCHING US (1944/Italy) Vittorio De Sica HR Slant Magazine

° SALVATORE GIULIANO (1961) Francesco Rosi W Derek Malcolm's Century of Films

° GONE BABY GONE (2007/USA) Ben Affleck W metacritic

° THE MATCH FACTORY GIRL (1990/Finland-Sweden) Aki Kaurismäki R Strictly Film School

° VISUAL VARIATIONS ON NOGUCHI (1945/USA) Marie Menken A Canyon Cinema

° TERROR ON A TRAIN (1953/UK) Ted Tetzlaff D IMDB

° REIGN OF TERROR (aka THE BLACK BOOK) (1949/USA) Anthony Mann R Time Out

° THE KID (1921/USA) Charles Chaplin R Bright Lights Film Journal

° THE GREAT MOMENT (1944/USA) Preston Sturges R Ozu's World Movie Reviews

° MEDITATION ON VIOLENCE (1948/USA) Maya Deren A YouTube

° LOVE IS COLDER THAN DEATH (1969/West Germany) Rainer Werner Fassbinder R Time Out

° THE NAKED AND THE DEAD (1958/USA) Raoul Walsh W Bright Lights Film Journal

° SPLIT SECOND (1953/USA) Dick Powell W Ozu's World Movie Reviews

° LOAN SHARK (1952/USA) Seymour Friedman W Ozu's World Movie Reviews

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

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May 2008

GreenCine Pedro Costa: "I Have to Risk Each Shot."

Filmmaker They Shoot Pictures Don't They?: Famed documentarian Errol Morris dissects what we saw (and didn‘t see) in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse photos in Standard Operating Procedure.

The Guardian 'The bloodshed had to be shown': At 80, Andrzej Wajda has made the bravest film of his career: a graphic account of the killing of 8,000 Polish officers.

indieWIRE Interview with "Mister Lonely" director Harmony Korine.

Reverse Shot Interview with Olivier Assayas.

Time Out Mike Leigh's London locations.

Sight & Sound French Cinema Now: French Exceptions.

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Rene Clair's "Paris qui dort". Number 1,000 on TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films list

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