| |
|
201
|
|
202
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203
↑ |
|
Persepolis |
|
Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi
(195) |
 |
| 2007,
95m, Col-BW, France-USA, Animated-Comedy-Drama |
| Chiara
Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Simon
Abkarian, Gabrielle Lopes, Francois Jerosme, Sophie Arthuys,
Jean-Francois Gallotte, Arie Elmaleh, Mathias Mlekuz |
|
"Cinematic poetry in black and white. It also is a deeply
affecting tale of the power of resilience and an unflagging
sense of humor through the worst of situations." -
Claudia Puig, USA Today |
|
Selected by
Tom Charity, Jim Emerson, Sam Adams, Melissa Anderson, David
D'Arcy. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
High
Fidelity |
|
Stephen Frears
(163) |
 |
|
2000, 113m, Col, USA-UK, Comedy |
| John
Cusack, Iben Hjelje, Todd Louiso, Jack Black, Lisa Bonet, Joan
Cusack, Tim Robbins, Lili Taylor, Natasha Gregson Wagner,
Catherine Zeta-Jones |
|
"With its knowing take on men, messed-up romance and music, it's
like one long, hook-filled pop song for the eyes." - Steven Rea,
Philadelphia Inquirer |
|
Selected by
Roger Ebert, Desson Howe, Jay Carr, Keith
Phipps, David Chute. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Femme Fatale |
|
Brian De Palma
new |
 |
|
2002, 110m, Col, France, Thriller-Crime |
| Antonio
Banderas, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Peter Coyote, Eriq Ebouaney,
Edouard Montoute, Rie Rasmussen, Thierry Fremont, Gregg Henry,
Eva Darlan, Sandrine Bonnaire |
|
"Here, the message is the moviemaking and the unparalleled
joy you get from a film that can carry you off so completely,
making you forget about everything save for the beautiful lies
in front of you." -
Manohla Dargis,
Los Angeles Times |
|
Selected by Armond White, Bill Krohn, Gavin
Smith, Adrian Martin,
Manohla Dargis. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
204
|
|
205
|
|
206
|
|
Chicken Run |
|
Peter Lord & Nick Park (169) |
 |
| 2000, 84m, Col,
USA-UK, Animated-Family-Comedy |
| Phil
Daniels, Lynn Ferguson, Mel Gibson, Tony Haygarth, Jane Horrocks,
Miranda Richardson, Julia Sawalha, Timothy Spall, Imelda
Staunton, Benjamin Whitrow |
| "Never loses its priceless
stamp of individuality. Reduced to its essence, this is a joke
told by a person, not a corporation--and that makes all the
difference." -
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times |
|
Selected by Kenneth Turan,
Desson Howe, A.O. Scott, Lisa Schwarzbaum, David Chute. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Monsoon
Wedding |
|
Mira Nair (170) |
 |
| 2001, 114m, Col,
USA-Italy-Germany-France, Romance-Drama |
| Naseeruddin
Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shetty, Vijay Raaz, Tilatama Shome,
Vasundhara Das, Parvin Dabas, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Kamini
Khanna, Roshan Seth |
| "Has an engaging warmth and
an effortless sense of life. It also has an instinct for the
humanity and universality of situations that are comic, romantic
and quite seriously dramatic by turns." -
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times |
|
Selected by Nick
Broomfield, Carrie Rickey,
David Ansen, Stuart Klawans, Karen Durbin. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Collateral |
|
Michael Mann
(191) |
 |
|
2004, 120m, Col, USA, Thriller-Crime-Action |
| Tom Cruise,
Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg, Bruce
McGill, Irma P. Hall, Barry Shabaka Henley, Richard T. Jones,
Javier Bardem |
|
"As a result of
Mann's
craftsmanship and concern, Collateral crackles with energy and
purpose, a propulsive film with character on its mind and
confident men and women on both sides of the camera." - Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times |
|
Selected by
Arnaud Desplechin, Richard Schickel, Manohla Dargis, Mike Clark, Ella
Taylor. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
207
|
|
208
|
|
209
↑ |
|
Morvern Callar |
|
Lynne Ramsay (192) |
 |
| 2002, 97m, Col,
UK-Canada, Drama |
| Samantha
Morton, Kathleen McDermott, Jim Wilson, Raife Patrick Burchell,
Dan Cadan, Carolyn Calder, Steven Cardwell, Bryan Dick, Andrew
Flannigan, Dolly Wells |
| "A work of astonishing
delicacy and force, a tone poem about the Frankenstein jolts
that all of us, at one time or another, have to live through." -
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon |
|
Selected by
David Thomson, Elvis Mitchell, Ella Taylor, Mark Olsen,
Charles Taylor. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
I Heart
Huckabees |
|
David
O. Russell (203) |
 |
| • 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 |
|
Selected by Gavin
Smith, David Ehrenstein,
Glenn Kenny, Carina Chocano, Saul Austerlitz. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Casino Royale |
|
Martin Campbell
new |
 |
|
2006, 144m, Col-BW, UK-USA-Czech Republic-Germany,
Action-Adventure-Thriller |
| Daniel
Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright,
Giancarlo Giannini, Caterina Murino, Simon Abkarian, Isaach De
Bankole, Jesper Christensen |
| "Relaunches
the series by doing something I wouldn't have thought possible:
It turns Bond into a human being again -- a gruffly charming yet
volatile chap who may be the swank king stud of the Western
world, but who still has room for rage, fear, vulnerability,
love." -
Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekley |
|
Selected by
Michael Wilmington, Owen Gleiberman, Molly Haskell, Michael
Phillips, William Arnold. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
210
|
|
211
|
|
212
|
|
Howl's
Moving Castle |
|
Hayao
Miyazaki (172) |
 |
| • Hauru no
ugoku shiro (original title) |
|
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 |
|
"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 |
|
Selected by
Sukhdev Sandhu, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Kenneth Turan, Michael Wilmington, Tom Charity. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
12:08 East
of Bucharest |
|
Corneliu Porumboiu
(171) |
 |
| • 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 |
|
|
|
|
Wallace &
Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit |
|
Nick Park & Steve Box (161) |
 |
| • Wallace &
Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (alternative title) |
| 2005, 85m, Col,
UK-USA, Animated-Adventure-Comedy |
| Peter
Sallis, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Peter Kay, Nicholas
Smith, Liz Smith, John Thomson, Mark Gatiss, Vincent Ebrahim,
Geraldine McEwan |
| "This latest and biggest
installment is a whimsical success of a very high order: The
pace never lags, the invention is incessant, and it makes you
want to have a bite of cheese afterward." -
Ed Park, Village Voice |
|
Selected by Kenneth Turan,
A.O. Scott, David Edelstein, Tom Charity, Donna Bowman. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
213
|
|
214
|
|
215
|
|
The Duchess
of Langeais |
|
Jacques
Rivette (176) |
 |
| • Ne touchez
pas la hache (original title); Don't Touch the Axe (alternative
title) |
|
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 |
|
"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 |
|
Selected by
Jonathan Romney, Graham Fuller, Melissa Anderson, Mike D'Angelo, Glenn Kenny. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Before Night
Falls |
|
Julian Schnabel (189) |
 |
| 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 |
|
Selected by B. Ruby Rich,
Peter Keough, Owen Gleiberman, A.O. Scott, Elvis Mitchell. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Match Point |
|
Woody
Allen (201) |
 |
| 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 |
|
Selected by Owen Gleiberman,
Kent Jones, Molly Haskell, A.O. Scott, Phillip Lopate. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
216
↑ |
|
217
↑ |
|
218
|
|
Keane |
|
Lodge Kerrigan (241) |
 |
| 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 |
|
Selected by Michael Atkinson,
Jonathan Romney, Kevin Thomas, Leslie Camhi, Anthony Kaufman. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The Man Who
Wasn't There |
|
Joel Coen
and Ethan Coen (221) |
 |
| 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 |
|
Selected by David Sterritt,
Kent Jones, A.O. Scott, Scott Tobias, Keith Phipps. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Unknown
Pleasures |
|
Jia Zhangke
(205) |
 |
| • Ren xiao
yao (original title) |
| 2002, 112m, Col,
Japan-France-Korea-China, Drama-Comedy |
| Wei Wei
Zhao, Qiong Wu, Qing Feng Zhou, Hong Wei Wang, Ru Bai, Xi An
Liu, Shou Lin Xu, Ren Ai Jun, Dao Xiao, Zi Ying |
|
"Unknown Pleasures suggests
a coolly formalist reinvention of neorealism. The film is both
distanced and immediate -- a fiction with the force of
documentary." - J. Hoberman, Village Voice |
|
Selected by Dennis Lim,
Berenice Reynaud, Chris Fujiwara, Gavin Smith, Kent Jones. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
219
|
|
220
↑ |
|
221
↑ |
|
Crimson
Gold |
|
Jafar Panahi
(208) |
 |
| • Talaye
sorkh (original title) |
|
2003, 96m, Col, Iran, Drama |
| Hossain
Emadeddin, Kamyar Sheisi, Azita Rayeji, Shahram Vaziri, Pourang
Nakhaei, Kaveh Najmabadi, Saber Safaei, Yadollah Samadian, Ramin
Rastad, Ehsan Amani |
|
"Iranian director
Jafar Panahi's
Crimson Gold is an anti-blockbuster--a deceptively modest
undertaking that brilliantly combines unpretentious humanism and
impeccable formal values." - J. Hoberman, Village Voice |
|
Selected by John Anderson, Chris Chang, Robert Koehler, Wesley
Morris, Godfrey Cheshire. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Bright Star |
|
Jane Campion
new |
 |
|
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 |
|
"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 |
|
Selected by
Pierre Rissient, Lizzie Francke, Michel Ciment, Tom Charity,
Kenneth Turan. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Slumdog
Millionaire |
|
Danny Boyle
new |
 |
|
2008, 120m, Col, UK, Crime-Drama-Romance |
| Dev Patel,
Anil Kapoor, Saurabh Shukla, Rajendranath Zutshi, Jeneva Talwar,
Freida Pinto, Irfan Khan, Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, Ayush
Mahesh Khedekar, Sunil Kumar Agrawal |
| "Slumdog
Millionaire dives headfirst into something greater than a
subculture - the enormous unchronicled culture of India's
mega-slums - and achieves even more sweeping impact." -
Michael Sragow, Baltimore Sun |
|
Selected by Kevin
B. Lee, Travis Crawford, Peter Brunette, Kim Voynar, David
Poland. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
222
↑ |
|
223
↑ |
|
224
↑ |
|
The Beaches of
Agnès |
|
Agnès Varda
new |
 |
| • Les
Plages d'Agnès (original title) |
|
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 |
|
Selected by
Raymond Bellour, David Ansen, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Carrie Rickey,
Berenice Reynaud. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Gerry |
|
Gus Van Sant
new |
 |
|
2001, 102m, Col, USA, Drama |
| Casey
Affleck, Matt Damon |
|
"The movie is on some level a stunt, but it has the fervent,
sun-dazed pull of an authentic experience unfolding in real
time, with glints of drama, comedy, and terror mixed into the
almost-but-not-quite tedium." - Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly |
|
Selected by
Berenice Reynaud, Michael Atkinson, Keith Uhlich, Scott Tobias,
Keith Phipps. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Gomorrah |
|
Matteo Garrone
new |
 |
| • Gomorra
(original title) |
|
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 |
|
"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 |
|
Selected by Piers
Handling, Graham Fuller, Chuck Stephens, Robert Koehler,
Jeannette Catsoulis. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
225
|
|
226
|
|
227
|
|
Tristram
Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story |
|
Michael Winterbottom
(194) |
 |
| • 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 |
|
|
|
The Edge of
Heaven |
|
Fatih Akin
(186) |
 |
| • Auf der
anderen Seite (original title) |
|
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 |
|
"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 |
|
Selected by
Dudley Andrew, Graham Fuller, Saul Austerlitz, Daryl Chin, J.R. Jones, Charles
Taylor. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Into the
Wild |
|
Sean Penn (188) |
 |
| 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 |
|
Selected by
David Ehrenstein, Gerald Peary, Roger Ebert, Tom Charity, Thomas Doherty. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
228
|
|
229
|
|
230
↑ |
|
King Kong |
|
Peter Jackson
(179) |
 |
|
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. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Woman on
the Beach |
|
Hong Sang-soo
(219) |
 |
| • Haebyonui
yoin (original title) |
|
2006, 100m, Col, South Korea, Drama-Comedy |
| Ban-ya Choi,
Hyun-jung Go, Chan Jung, Seung-woo Kim, Tae-woo Kim, Hyeon-gang
Ko, Ki-woo Lee, Seong-kun Mun, Tae-kyung Oh, Seon-mi Song |
|
"Woman On The Beach is a stripped-down, witty
explication of how we all get stymied by the impulses and
options inherent in the simple act of living." - Noel
Murray, The A.V. Club |
|
Selected by
Phillip Lopate, Richard Brody, Kent Jones, Berenice Reynaud, Kevin B. Lee. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
28 Days Later... |
|
Danny Boyle
new |
 |
|
2002, 113m, Col, UK, Thriller-Science Fiction-Horror |
| Cillian
Murphy, Naomie Harris, Megan Burns, Brendan Gleeson, Christopher
Eccleston, Alex Palmer, Bindu de Stoppani, Jukka Hitunen, David
Schneider, Toby Sedgwick |
|
"At once an
old-fashioned freakout and an environmental cautionary tale
(mess with Mother Nature and she'll mess with you right back),
the film combines two genre standbys -- lethal contagion and the
undead -- and gives them a wicked, contemporary spin." -
Manohla Dargis,
Los Angeles Times |
|
Selected by
Manohla
Dargis, Wesley Morris, Shawn Levy, Thomas Caldwell, Cynthia
Fuchs. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
231
|
|
232
↑ |
|
233
|
|
Monsters, Inc. |
|
Peter Docter / David Silverman / Lee Unkrich (228) |
 |
| 2001, 95m, Col,
USA, Animated-Family-Comedy |
| John
Goodman, Billy Crystal, Mary Gibbs, Steve Buscemi, James Coburn,
Jennifer Tilly, Bob Peterson, John Ratzenberger, Frank Oz,
Daniel gerson |
| "Shrek is a scintilla
funnier, Toy Story 2 a hair's breadth more poignant, but
MI
is every bit as imaginative and lovable as these other
contemporary animation classics." - Carrie Rickey,
Philadelphia Inquirer |
|
Selected by
Frank Darabont, Michael Wilmington, Carrie Rickey, Richard
Corliss, Elvis Mitchell. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Los Angeles
Plays Itself |
|
Thom Andersen (238) |
 |
| 2003, 169m, Col,
USA, Documentary |
| Encke King |
| "Los Angeles may be the most
photographed city in the world, but it has never have been
captured with such complex layers of meaning and fascination as
in Thom Andersen's remarkable Los Angeles Plays Itself." -
Robert Koehler, Variety |
|
Selected by Berenice Reynaud,
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Daryl Chin, Ed Halter, Saul Austerlitz. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Old Joy |
|
Kelly
Reichardt (174) |
 |
|
2005, 73m, Col, USA, Drama |
| Daniel
London, Will Oldham, Tanya Smith, Robin Rosenberg, Keri Moran,
Autumn Campbell, Steve Doughton, Lucy, Matt McCormick, Darren
Prolsen |
|
"It's in all the moments where little happens that Reichardt is
most amazing, investing even a gas-station pit stop with perfect
emotional pitch." - Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly |
|
Selected by Scott Tobias, Ed Halter, Brian Miller, Melissa
Anderson, Godfrey Cheshire. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
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234
|
|
235
↑ |
|
236
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Late Marriage |
|
Dover Kosashvili (185) |
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| • 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 |
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Selected by J. Hoberman,
Chris Chang, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Alice Lovejoy, Leslie Camhi. |
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Amazon
metacritic |
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Still Walking |
|
Hirokazu Koreeda
new |
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| • Aruitemo
aruitemo (original title) |
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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 |
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Selected by
Berenice Reynaud, Tom Charity, David Ansen, David Fear, Michael
Koresky. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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Blissfully Yours |
|
Apichatpong
Weerasethakul
new |
 |
| • Sud
sanaeha (original title) |
|
2002, 125m, Col, Thailand-France, Romance-Drama |
| Kanokporn
Tongaram, Min Oo, Jenjira Jansuda, Sa-gnad Chaiyapan, Kanitpat
Premkij, Jaruwan Techasatiern |
|
"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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Amazon
metacritic |
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Coraline |
|
Henry Selick
new |
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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 |
|
"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. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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Kung Fu Hustle |
|
Stephen Chow
new |
 |
| • Kung fu (original title) |
|
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 |
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Selected by Tom
Charity, Adrian Martin, Dave Kehr, Nathan Rabin, Nathan Lee. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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Code Unknown |
|
Michael Haneke
new |
 |
| • Code
inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages (original title) |
|
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 |
|
Selected by Robin
Wood, Tom Charity, Mike D'Angelo, Mark Holcomb, Melissa
Anderson. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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Paradise
Now |
|
Hany Abu-Assad (182) |
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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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Of Time and the
City |
|
Terence Davies
new |
 |
|
2008, 72m, Col-BW, UK, Documentary |
| Terence
Davies |
|
"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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Billy
Elliot |
|
Stephen Daldry (206) |
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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 |
|
"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 |
|
Selected by David Ansen, Peter Travers, Mark Caro, Paul Clinton,
Charles Cassady Jr. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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A Time for
Drunken Horses |
|
Bahman Ghobadi (180) |
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| • 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 |
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Selected by
Gillies
MacKinnon, Michael Atkinson, Robert Sklar, Jay
Carr, Sam Adams. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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Ballast |
|
Lance
Hammer (197) |
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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. |
|
"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 |
|
Selected by
Michael Atkinson, Amy Taubin, Chuck Stephens, Adam Nayman, Rob Nelson. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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Where the Wild
Things Are |
|
Spike Jonze
new |
 |
|
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 |
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Selected by A.O.
Scott, Ed Gonzalez, John Powers, Peter Keough, Lisa Schwarzbaum. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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Under the
Sand |
|
François Ozon
(198) |
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| • 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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Iraq in Fragments |
|
James Longley
new |
 |
|
2006, 94m, Col, USA, Documentary |
| Mohammad
Haithem, Suleiman Mahmoud |
|
"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 |
|
Selected by
Jeanine Basinger, A.O. Scott, Kenneth Turan, Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Gary Crowdus. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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Private Fears in
Public Places |
|
Alain Resnais
new |
 |
| • 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. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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Bamako |
|
Abderrahmane Sissako (200) |
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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 |
|
Selected by
Philip French, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Berenice Reynaud, Michael Sicinski, James
Quandt. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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|
Climates |
|
Nuri Bilge Ceylan (187) |
 |
| • 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 |
|
Selected by J. Hoberman,
Peter Brunette, Scott Foundas, Michael Phillips, Graham Fuller. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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