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--Recent Viewings--

	° HAPPY-GO-LUCKY (2008/UK-USA) Mike Leigh R Time Out
	° MUTUAL APPRECIATION (2005/USA) Andrew Bujalski W metacritic
	° THE KINGDOM (1994/Denmark) Lars von Trier A Washington Post
	° FLOATING CLOUDS (1955/Japan) Mikio Naruse R Strictly Film School
	° THE SNIPER (1952/USA) Edward Dmytryk R Dave Kehr
	° RETURN OF THE SECAUCUS SEVEN (1980/USA) John Sayles W Time Out
	° NAPOLÈON (1927/France) Abel Gance R Senses of Cinema
	° MANDY (1952/UK) Alexander Mackendrick HR Screen Online
	° GODS OF THE PLAGUE (1969/West Germany) Rainer Werner Fassbinder R Slant Magazine
	° ARSON, INC. (1949/USA) William A. Berke A DVD Beaver
	° MINNIE AND MOSKOWITZ (1971/USA) John Cassavetes R Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
	° THE SALTON SEA (2002/USA) D.J. Caruso A metacritic
	° DARK HORSE (2005/Denmark-Iceland) Dagur Kári A BBC
	° ACCATTONE (1961/Italy) Pier Paolo Pasolini R Senses of Cinema
	° KISS THE BLOOD OFF MY HANDS (1948/USA) Norman Foster W Ozu's World Movie Reviews
	° THE ORPHANAGE (2007/Mexico-Spain) Juan Antonio Bayona W metacritic
	° DRACULA: PAGES FROM A VIRGIN'S DIARY (2002/Canada) Guy Maddin W metacritic
	° THE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE (2005/USA) Mary Harron W metacritic
	° LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON (1957/USA) Billy Wilder W Time Out
	° TRON (1982/USA) Steven Lisberger A Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
	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).
	You can view all of our film recommendations here.

Recommended Reading

The 1,000 Greatest Films

June 2008

Film Comment A Blast from the Past: Alexander Kluge interviewed by Jan Dawson, from the November/December 1974 issue of Film Comment.

Senses of Cinema Sweet Movie: The Gentle Side of “Destructive Art” by Dusan Makavejev.

The Boston Phoenix The awful truth: Leo McCarey was better in the ’30s.

Cineaste The Cinema of Identification Gets on my Nerves: An Interview with Christian Petzold.

Cineuropa Interview with Laurent Cantet.

Filmmaker Werner Herzog interview, Encounters at the End of the World.

GreenCine Interview: Olivier Assayas's "Archetypally Modern Drama".

The Guardian Untold stories of the LA Rebellion: While Hollywood rejoiced in blaxploitation, an underground generation of black film-makers came out of Los Angeles in the 60s and 70s to forge a series of forgotten masterpieces.

LA Weekly Border Stories: Fatih Akin's Edge of Heaven.

Midnight Eye Tomoyasu Murata and Company.

Previous recommended reading.

The Shooting Gallery

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Who are the most important film actors of all-time? Is it those who had the biggest star-power, those who won the most awards or accolades, those who grabbed the most headlines? Or, was it those performers who actually worked - for whatever reason - with the best filmmakers and subsequently ended up appearing in many of the screen's finest films?

See what They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? think, and prepare to be mildly surprised with some of our inclusions and also by many of our omissions. (Last Updated during December 2007).


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

TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films listing is now based on 1,604 critics/reviewers' and filmmakers' top-10 lists, culled from various sources. Additionally, we have also factored in over 650 magazine polls, film institute polls, and many other polls of interest. The net effect of all our fine-tuning over the last twelve months is that a total of 139 films have debuted or re-entered our list and, of course, 139 films (and some very fine ones at that) have dropped out. View The 1,000 Greatest Films.

Film Noir: They Shot Dark Pictures, Didn't They?

The 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films

"From Alien through The Wicker Man, each entry brings a breath of fresh air to the consideration of seminal movies many of us thought had been analyzed to death. As editor Aaron Christensen puts it, Keep America strong! Watch more monster movies!" - Joe Dante

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