Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Superstar (2012)

COMING SOON: Xavier Giannoli's Superstar (France, 2012) - Xavier Giannoli (In the Beginning, The Singer) endeavours with mixed results to give France a Network or A Face In The Crowd for the 21st century in Superstar, a bittersweet reflection on celebrity. 2012VENic

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Kon Tiki (2012)

Norwegian directors Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning’s action-adventure Kon-Tiki – Norway’s most expensive feature so far, shot on a $15.7m (NOK 93m) budget – took a record number of 164,191 admissions during its opening weekend on 185 screens at all theatres in Norway.

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Les Infideles


Les Infideles (France, 2012) - A comedy of extramarital manners in several unconnected chapters, "The Players" is an odd beast that, like all omnibus films, is only as strong as its weakest link. Recent Oscar winner Jean Dujardin and Gallic colleague Gilles Lellouche star in and co-wrote the pic's six shorts and also handled helming duties on the gaudy, unimaginative Las Vegas-set closing seg. Remaining episodes are helmed by different directors, including "The Artist's" Michel Hazanavicius, who successfully taps into a more reserved register of Dujardin's talent. Local release has been doing boffo biz, though elsewhere, marketing this amoral hodgepodge might prove more problematic. 2012MONic.

Gimme The Loot

Gimme The Loot – 2012 SXSW Best Film Winner
Slinging pot and tagging walls high above the city, Gotham graffiti artists Malcolm and Sofia begin Adam Leon's "Gimme the Loot" as miscreants and end it as heroes -- not in the epic sense they envisioned (their goal is to "bomb the apple" at Citi Field), but simply for etching their names on our hearts along the way. Feeding on the energy of its non-pro cast, this indelible slice-of-life follows the two teens on a freewheeling journey through the streets. The stakes may be low, but the experience is authentic, kicking off a likely healthy fest run with SXSW's jury prize.

Cleanskin

Sean Bean in Cleanskin – UK – 2012
Although it looks at first like a generic macho action pic with lots of gory brainsplatter effects, there's a more finely pored, thoughtful piece of work lurking beneath the gritty surface of Brit pic "Cleanskin," writer-helmer Hadi Hajaig's sophomore effort. However, the script relies too much on painfully clunky if necessary flashbacks to explain how its British-born Muslim protagonist turned into a terrorist, and the material might have worked much better as multipart TV drama. Feature form makes this a more vulgar, rough-hewn creature that will play largely to a male demographic and clean up well on ancillary.

Heleno


Jose Henrique Fonseca's Heleno (Brazil, 2011) - Soccer is a national obsession in Brazil, fuelled by idols like Pelé, Garrincha and Zico. But before them all came Heleno de Freitas. Director José Henrique Fonseca gives a fragmented account of the rise and fall of this hot-tempered athlete, from his heyday playing for his beloved Botafogo in the forties to his tragic death in 1959 in a sanatorium due to untreated syphilis. In his time, Heleno played for Fluminense, Vasco de Gama and Junior de Barranquilla before being sold to Boca Juniors of Argentina in 1950. Despite his undisputed talent on the pitch, Fonseca has chosen to leave aside the strictly professional aspect of his life and focus on the man behind the heavenly physique. Ultimately, we are left with the bitter taste of a life plagued by mistakes; a man fallen victim to his own fame. Rodrigo Santoro’s stellar performance as Heleno won him best actor at Havana, while Angie Cepeda does Colombia proud in the part of the sensual mistress. 2011TOR, 2012CAR. RATING: 7

Fisherman


Sebastian Cordero's Fisherman (Ecuadoe, 2012) - In 2007, Juan Fernando Andrade published “CONFESSIONS OF A COCAINE FISHERMAN”, based on a story about a group of fishermen who discover a shipment of cocaine on the beach. Andrade worked with Sebastián Cordero on an adaptation of his novel to incorporate the doubts that habitually torment the director’s characters. Blanquito, one of the fishermen, decides not to risk selling the drugs in El Matal, the town in the Colombian province of Manabí where he is from. Instead, he teams up with Lorna, who needs the money to get back to her native Colombia and find her daughter. From here on in, Pescador adopts the format of a road movie that takes us to Guayaquil and Quito, past geographies that merge with the physical and spiritual landscapes of the characters and that leave Blanquito standing at a crossroads, faced with his “loss of innocence”. Colombia’s María Cecilia Sánchez gives an imposing performance as Lorna. 2011SANShl, 2012CAR. RATING: 7

Field of Amapolas


Juan Carlos Melo Guevara's Field of Amapolas (Colombia, 2012) -  Emilio and his nine-year-old son are forced to abandon their parcel of land overnight due to threats that they and the locals have been collaborating with the enemy in the guerilla war that has been ravaging rural Colombia for years. A relative helps them relocate and, despite his initial reticence, Emilio ends up working on a poppy plantation. At the heart of the story is Luisa, with whom Emilio’s son shares the secret companionship of a neighborhood dog. Filmed in the south of Colombia, near Melo Guevara’s native Ipiales, this is a film about the plight of innocent civilians displaced by war. Sitting on the fence is not an option and it is almost impossible for them not to get mixed up in illegal activities. “You don’t have to be old to die here,” says one of the characters in a dialogue that reveals the omnipresence of death. Given the storyline, we can hardly expect a happy ending, yet the final flashback of the children leaves us with an inkling of hope for a better future. 2012CAR.RATING: 7

180 Seconds


Alexander Giraldo's 180 Seconds Columbia, 2012) - Zico and his sister, Angie, are the ringleaders of a group of armed robbers the police have been keeping tabs on. Now they are planning what they hope will be their last heist on a money exchange bureau, the one that will finance their dream trip to Europe. But they have only 180 seconds to get in and out before the alarm sounds. Guájaro and Rincón, who comes at the recommendation of a convict friend of Zico’s, are also part of the operation. Yet we know from the opening shots of Zico and his sister’s bloody corpses that something has gone terribly wrong. Columbian director Alexander Giraldo has opted for a narrative method reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick or Quentin Tarantino, forcing us to piece the story together from random fragments. And while this approach may not be entirely original, he executes it extremely effectively, complete with memorable dialogues and outstanding performances. Only before the closing credits. 2012CAR.RATING: 7

Hit and Run

David Palmer's Hit and Run (US, 2012)  -  Comic actor Dax Shepard isn't the kind of guy who comes to mind when trying to cast a Hollywood action movie. After putting himself in the driver's seat with "Hit & Run," however, the goofy-acting "Punk'd" host merits future consideration. An unexpectedly satisfying date-movie spin about a redneck lothario (Shepard) who confronts old demons in order to drive his booksmart g.f. (Kristen Bell) to a big-city job interview, this low-budget B movie looks poised to surprise, potentially rivaling the success Open Road Films enjoyed with "The Grey" earlier this year.

2012 Sight & Sound's Greatest Films Of All Time List

Vertigo is No. 1 Best Film of Alltime on 2012 Sight and Sound Critics Pool
The Complete List

1.Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
2. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
3. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
4. The Rules of The Game (Renoir, 1939)
5. Sunrise (Murnau, 1927)
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
7. The Searchers (Ford, 1956)
8. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
9. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1927)
10. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
11. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
12. L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
13. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
14. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
15. Late Spring (Ozu Yasujiro, 1949)
16. Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
17. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa Akira, 1954)
17. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
19. Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1974)
19. Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1951)
21. L’avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
21. Le Mépris (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
21. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
24. Ordet (Carl Dreyer, 1955)
24. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)
26. Rashomon (Kurosawa Akira, 1950)
26. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)
28. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
29. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
29. Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
31. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
31. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
33. Bicycle Thieves (Vittoria De Sica, 1948)
34. The General (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1926)
35. Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
35. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
35. Jeanne Dielman (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
35. Sátántangó (Béla Tarr, 1994)
39. The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
39. La dolce vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)
41. Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1954)
42. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
42. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
42. Gertrud (Carl Dreyer, 1964)
42. Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
42. Play Time (Jacques Tati, 1967)
42. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990)
48. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
48. Histoire(s) du cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard, 1998)
50. City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
50. Ugetsu monogatari (Mizoguchi Kenji, 1953)
50. La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)

53=
"Rear Window" (1954)
"North By Northwest" (1959)
"Raging Bull" (1980)
56=
"M" (1931)
"Touch Of Evil" (1958)
"The Leopard" (1963)
59=
"Sherlock Jr" (1924)
"Sansho dayu" (1954)
"La Maman et la Putain" (1973)
"Barry Lyndon" (1975)
63 =
"Modern Times" (1936)
"Sunset Blvd." (1950)
"The Night Of The Hunter" (1955)
"Wild Strawberries" (1957)
"Rio Bravo" (1958)
"Pickpocket" (1959)
69=
"A Man Escaped" (1956)
"Blade Runner" (1982)
"Sans soleil" (1982)
"Blue Velvet" (1986)
73=
"La Grande Illusion" (1937)
"Les Enfants du Paradis" (1945)
"The Third Man" (1949)
"L'eclisse" (1962)
"Nashville" (1975)
78=
"Once Upon A Time In The West" (1968)
"Chinatown" (1974)
"Beau Travail" (1998)
81=
"The Magnificent Ambersons" (1942)
"Lawrence Of Arabia" (1962)
"The Spirit Of The Beehive" (1973)
84=
"Greed" (1925)
"Casablanca" (1942)
"The Colour Of Pomegranates" (1968)
"The Wild Bunch" (1969)
"Fanny And Alexander" (1984)
"A Brighter Summer Day" (1991)
90=
"Partie De Campagne" (1936)
"A Matter Of Life And Death" (1946)
"Aguirre, Wrath Of God" (1972)
93=
"Intolerance" (1916)
"Un chien andalou" (1928)
"The Life & Death Of Colonel Blimp" (1943)
"Madame de..." (1953)
"The Seventh Seal" (1957)
"Imitation Of Life" (1959)
"Touki-Bouki" (1973)
”Yi Yi” (2000)

2012 New York Film Festival Line Up

Ang Lee's The Life of Pi will open 2012 New York Film Festival

Araf - Somewhere in Between Yesim Ostauglu         Turkey         2012
Barbara         Christian Petzold         Germany         2012
Bay, The      Barry Levinson   US   2012  
Berberian Sound Studio    Peter Strickland   UK   2012  
Beyond The Hills         Christian Mungiu         Romania         2012
Bwakaw          Jun Robles Lana         Philippines       2012
Caesar Must Die Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani        Italy         2012
Camille Rewinds Noemie Lvovsky         France         2012
Dead Man and Being Happy, The Javier Rebollo         Spain         2012
Fill The Void         Rama Burshtein         Israel         2012
First Cousin Once Removed Alan Berliner         US         2012
Flight Robert Zemeckis         US         2012
Frances Ha         Noah Baumbach         US         2012
Gatekeepers, The Dror Moreh         Israel         2012
Ginger and Rosa Sally Potter         UK         2012
Here and There  Antonio Mendez Esparza         Spain         2012
Holy Motors         Leos Carax         France         2012
Hyde Park On Hudson         Roger Michell         US         2012
Kinshasa Kids         Marc Henri Wajnberg         Belgium         2012
Last Time I Saw Macao        Joao Pedro Rodrigues        Portugal         2012
Leviathan         Lucien Castaing Taylor         UK         2012
Life of Pi, The         Ang Lee         US         2012
Like Someone In Love  Abbas Kiarostami  Iran, Japan         2012
Lines of Wellington, The Valeria Sarmiento         Portugal         2012
Love / Amour         Michael Haneke        Austria         2012
Memories Look At Me         Song Fang         China         2012
Night Across The Street        Raul Ruiz         Chile         2012
No   Pablo Larrain         Chile         2012
Not Fade Away         David Chase         US         2012
Our Children  Joachim Lafosse         Belgium         2012
Outrage: Beyond    Takeshi Kitano   Japan   2012 
Passion  Brian De Palma         US         2012
Princess Bride    Rob Reiner    US      
Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs   Walt Disney    US    1937
Something In The Air Olivier Assayas         France         2012
Tabu Miguel Gomes         Portugal         2012
Untold History of THe United States    Oliver Stone   US    2012
You Ain't Seen Anything Yet  Alain Resnais  France         2012

ROGER EBERT’S GREAT MOVIES - THE COMPLETE LIST

Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey

2001 A Space Odyssey        Stanley Kubrick        US        1968
25th Hour        Spike Lee        US        2002
3 Women         Robert Altman        US         1977
400 Blows, The Francois Truffaut        France         1959
8 1/2   Federico Fellini         Italy         1963
A.I Artificial Intelligent        Steven Spielberg        US         2001
Adaptation        Spike Jonze        US        2002
Adventures Of Robin Hood, TheMichael Curtiz        US        1938
After Dark, My Sweet        James Foley         US         1990
After Hours        Martin Scorsese        US        1985
Age of Innocence, The  Martin Scorsese        US        1993
Aguirre The Wrath of God        Werner Herzog        Germany        1972
Ali Fear Eats The Soul  Rainer Werner Fassbinder        Germany         1974
Alien         Ridley Scott        US         1979
All About Eve        Joseph L. Mankiewicz        US        1950
Amadeus        Milos Forman        US        1984
Amarcord         Federico Fellini         Italy        1973
Annie Hall        Woody Allen        US        1977
Aparajito        Satyajit Ray  India        1957
Apartment, The  Billy Wilder        US        1960
Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola        US        1979
Army of Shadows        Jean Pierre Melville        France        1969
Atlantic City        Louis Malle        US        1980
Au Hasard Balthazar  Robert Bresson        France        1966
Au Revoir Les Enfents         Louis Malle        France        1987
Autumn Afternoon, An        Yasujiro Ozu  Japan        1962
Babel         Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu        US         2006
Badlands        Terrence Malick        US        1973
Ballad of Narayama, The      Keisuke Kinoshita   Japan   1958
Band Wagon, The  Vincente Minnelli        US        1953
Bank Dick, The  Edward F. Cline         US         1940
Baraka         Ron Fricke         US         1992
Barry Lyndon         Stanley Kubrick        US         1975
Battle of Algiers, The         Gillo Pontecorvo         Algeria         1966
Battleship Potemkin, The         Sergei Eisenstein        Russia        1925
Beat The Devil        John Huston        US        1953
Beauty and The Beast        Jean Cocteau         France        1946
Being There         Hal Ashby        US         1979
Belle De Jour         Luis Bunuel        France         1967
Best Years of Our Lives, The  William Wyler        US        1946
Bicycle Thief, The Vittorio De Sica         Italy         1948
Big Heat, The        Fritz Lang        US        1953
Big Lebowski, The Joel Coen         US         1998
Big Red One, The (Restored Version)        Samuel Fuller  US         1980
Big Sleep, The         Howard Hawks         US         1946
Birth of A Nation, The  D.W. Griffith        US         1915
Blade Runner         Ridley Scott         US         1982
Blow Up        Michelangelo Antonioni        UK        1966
Blue Krzysztof Kieslowski        France         1993
Blue Kite, The         Tian Zhuang Zhuang        China        1993
Bob Le Flambeur  Jean Pierre Melville         France         1955
Body Heat  Lawrence Kasdan         US         1981
Bonnie and Clyde         Arthur Penn         US         1967
Breathless        Jean Luc Godard        France        1960
Bride Of Frankenstein        James Whale        US        1935
Bridge on The River Kwai, The  David Lean        UK         1957
Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia        Sam Peckinpah US         1974
Broken Blossoms         D.W. Griffith        US         1919
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The  Robert Wiene         Germany        1919
Cabiria        Giovanni Pastrone        Italy        1914
Casablanca         Michael Curtiz         US         1942
Cat People         Jacques Tourneur         US         1942
Children of Paradise, The         Marcel Carne         France        1945
Chimes At Midnight / Falstaff Orson Welles        US        1965
Chinatown         Roman Polanski        US         1974
Chop Shop         Ramin Bahrani         US         2007
Christmas Story, A         Bob Clark        US         1983
Chuck Jones Three Cartoons Chuck Jones         US           
Circus, The         Charles Chaplin         US         1928
Citizen Kane         Orson Welles         US         1941
City Lights         Charles Chaplin         US         1931
Color Purple, The Steven Spielberg        US         1985
Come and See         Elem Klimov         Russia         1985
Contact        Robert Zemeckis         US        1997
Conversation, The Francis Ford Coppola        US         1974
Cool Hand Luke         Stuart Rosenberg         US         1967
Cries and Whispers         Ingmar Bergman        Sweden         1972
Crimes and Misdeamenors        Woody Allen        US        1989
Crumb         Terry Zwigoff        US         1994
Dark City         Alex Proyas         US         1998
Day For Night        Francois Truffaut        France        1973
Days of Heaven         Terrence Malick         US         1978
Dead, The         John Huston         US         1987
Decalogue, The         Krzysztof Kieslowski        Poland         1989
Departures / Okuribito          Yojiro Takita         Japan         2008
Detour         Edgar G. Ulmer        US         1945
Diary of A Country Priest        Robert Bresson         France         1951
Diary of A Lost Girl         G.W. Pabst        Germany        1929
Discreet Charm Of The Bougeoisie, The  Luis Bunuel France  1972
Diva Jean Jacques Beineix         France        1981
Do The Right Thing (Criterion)         Spike Lee         US         1989
Dog Day Afternoon         Sidney Lumet         US         1975
Don't Look Now         Nicolas Roeg         UK         1973
Double Indemnity        Billy Wilder        US        1944
Double Life of Veronique, The  Krzysztof Kieslowski France        1991
Dr. Strangelove         Stanley Kubrick        US         1964
Dracula        Tod Browning        US        1931
Duck Soup         Leo McCarey         US         1933
E.T. Steven Spielberg        US        1982
Earrings Of Madame De…        Max Ophuls        France        1953
Easy Rider        Dennis Hopper        US        1969
El Norte        Gregory Nava        Guatemala        1983
El Topo        Alejandro Jodorowsky        Mexico        1970
Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, The / Everyman For Himself and God Against All   Werner Herzog        Germany        1974
Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind                Michel Gondry US    2004
Exotica        Atom Egoyan        Canada        1994
Exterminating Angel, The         Luis Bunuel        Mexico        1962
Fall of The House Of Usher, The James Watson        US         1928
Fanny and Alexander  Ingmar Bergman        Sweden         1982
Faust        F.W. Murnau        Germany        1926
Fireman's Ball, The  Milos Forman         Czech        1967
Fitzcarraldo        Werner Herzog        Germany        1982
Five Easy Pieces         Bob Rafelson         US        1970
Floating Weeds         Yasujiro Ozu Japan         1959
Forbidden Games Rene Clement        France        1952
French Can Can Jean Renoir        France         1955
Gates of Heaven         Errol Morris         US         1978
General, The        Buster Keaton        US        1927
Godfather Part 2, The        Francis Ford Coppola        US        1974
Godfather, The        Francis Ford Coppola        US        1972
Goldfinger        Guy Hamilton         UK         1964
Gone With The Wind         Victor Fleming        US         1939
Good, The Bad and The Ugly, The  Sergio Leone  Italy        1966
Goodfellas        Martin Scorsese        US         1990
Gospel According To St. Matthew Pier Paolo Pasolini Italy        1964
Grand Illusion, The  Jean Renoir        France        1937
Grapes of Wrath, The         John Ford        US        1940
Grave of The Fireflies        Isao Takahata         Japan        1988
Great Dictator, The Charles Chaplin        US        1940
Great Expectations        David Lean         UK        1946
Greed (Uncut)        Erich Von Stroheim         US         1924
Grey Zone, The Tim Blake Nelson        US        2001
Groundhog Day        Harold Ramis         US         1993
Hairdresser's Husband        Patrice Leconte        France        1990
Harakiri         Masaki Kobayashi        Japan        1962
Hard Day's Night, A         Richard Lester        UK         1964
Heart of Glass        Werner Herzog        Germany        1976
Hidden / Cache          Michael Haneke        France        2005
Hoop Dreams (Criterion)        Steve James         US        1994
House of Games        David Mamet        US        1987
Howard's End        James Ivory        UK        1992
Hustler, The        Robert Rossen        US        1961
Ikiru (Criterion)        Akira Kurosawa         Japan         1952
In A Lonely Place         Nicholas Ray US         1950
In Cold Blood        Richard Brooks         US         1967
Inherit The Wind        Stanley Kramer        US        1960
It's A Wonderful Life         Frank Capra         US         1946
Ivan The Terrible  Sergei Eisenstein        Russia         1944
Jaws         Steven Spielberg        US         1975
JFK  Oliver Stone        US        1991
Johnny Guitar        Nicholas Ray  US        1954
Jules and Jim          Francois Truffaut         France         1962
Juliet Of The Spirits  Federico Fellini        Italy         1965
Killer Of Sheep        Charles Burnett        US         1977
Killing, The        Stanley Kubrick        US        1955
Kind Hearts and Coronets        Robert Hamer        UK        1949
King Kong         Merian C. Cooper         US         1933
L.A. Confidential        Curtis Hanson        US        1997
La Belle Noiseuse        Jacques Rivette        France        1991
La Ceremonie        Claude Chabrol        France        1995
La Collectioneusse        Eric Rohmer        France        1967
La Dolce Vita        Federico Fellini        Italy        1960
Lady Eve, The          Preston Sturges        US         1941
Last Laugh, The  F.W. Murnau        Germany        1924
Last Picture Show, The         Peter Bogdanovich        US         1971
Last Tango In Paris         Bernardo Bertolucci         Italy         1972
Last Temptation of Christ, The  Martin Scorsese        US         1988
Last Year at Marienbad        Alain Resnais        France        1961
L'atalante        Jean Vigo        France        1934
Late Spring         Yasujiro Ozu  Japan        1949
Laura         Otto Preminger         US         1944
L'avventura  Michelangelo Antonioni        Italy         1960
Lawrence of Arabia         David Lean        UK        1962
Le Boucher         Claude Chabrol         France         1970
Le Samourai         Jean Pierre Melville        France        1967
Leaving Las Vegas        Mike Figgis        US        1995
Leolo        Jean-Claude Lauzon        Canada        1992
Leon Morin Priest        Jean Pierre Melville        France        1961
Leopard, The         Luchino Visconti         Italy         1963
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp  Michael Powell  UK         1943
Life of Oharu   Kenji Mizoguchi   Japan   1952
Long Goodbye, The Robert Altman         US         1973
Lost in Translation        Sofia Copolla        US        2003
M     Fritz Lang        Germany        1931
M. Hulot's Holiday         Jacques Tati         France         1953
Magnolia        Paul Thomas Anderson         US         1999
Make Way for Tomorrow         Leo McCarey        US         1937
Maltese Falcon, The         John Huston        US        1941
Man Escaped, A     Robert Bresson        France        1956
Man Who Laughs, The         Paul Muni         US         1928
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The         John Ford         US         1962
Man with The Movie Camera, The Dziga Vertov        Russia        1929
Manchurian Candidate, The        John Frankenheimer        US        1962
Manhattan        Woody Allen        US        1979
Marriage of Maria Braun, The R.W. Fassbinder Germany         1979
Match Factory Girl, The         Aki Kaurismaki         Finland         1990
McCabe and Mrs Miller         Robert Altman         US         1971
Mean Streets         Martin Scorsese        US        1973
Mephisto        Istvan Szabo        Hungary        1981
Metropolis         Fritz Lang        Germany         1927
Mishima        Paul Schrader        US        1985
Mon Oncle         Jacques Tati         France         1958
Mon Oncle Antoine        Claude Jutra Canada        1971
Mon Oncle D'amerique        Alain Resnais        France        1980
Monsieur Hire    Bertrand Blier   France   1989
Moolade / Protection        Ousmane Sembene        Senegal        2004
Moonstruck         Norman Jewison         US         1987
Mulholland Dr.   David Lynch   US    2001
Music Room, The / Jalsaghar Satyajit Ray        India        1958
My Darling Clementine        John Ford        US        1946
My Dinner With Andre        Louis Malle        France        1981
My Fair Lady         George Cukor        US         1964
My Life To Live / Vivre Sa Vie Jean Luc Godard        France        1962
My Man Godfrey          Gregory La Cava         US         1936
My Neighbor Totoro        Hayao Miyazaki        Japan        1988
Mystery Train        Jim Jarmusch        US        1989
Nanook of The North (Criterion) Robert Flaherty        US        1922
Nashville        Robert Altman        US        1975
Network         Sidney Lumet        US         1976
Night Moves         Arthur Penn         US         1975
Night of The Hunter, The         Charles Laughton         US         1955
Nights of Cabiria         Federico Fellini        Italy        1957
Nosferatu        F.W. Murnau        Germany        1922
Nosferatu        Werner Herzog        Germany        1979
Notorious         Alfred Hitchcock        US         1946
On The Waterfront        Elia Kazan        US        1954
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Milos Forman        US        1975
Only Son, The        Yasujiro Ozu  Japan        1936
Ordet         Carl Dreyer        Denmark        1955
Orpheus         Jean Cocteau        France        1949
Out of The Past         Jacques Tourneur         US         1947
Pale Flower        Masahiro Shinoda        Japan        1964
Pandora's Box        G.W. Pabst         Germany         1929
Pan's Labyrinth        Guillermo Del Toro        Spain        2006
Paris, Texas        Wim Wenders        US        1984
Passion of Joan Of Arc, The  Carl Dreyer        France        1928
Pather Panchali        Satyajit Ray  India        1955
Paths of Glory        Stanley Kubrick        US         1957
Patton         Franklin J. Schaffner        US         1970
Peeping Tom         Michael Powell        UK        1960
Persona         Ingmar Bergman        Sweden         1966
Phantom of The Opera, The (25) Rupert Julian        US        1925
Pickpocket (Criterion)        Robert Bresson        France        1959
Picnic At Hanging Rock (Criterion)        Peter Weir        Australia        1975
Pink Floyd The Wall        Alan Parker        US        1982
Pinocchio        Walt Disney        US        1940
Pixote        Hector Babenco        Brazil        1981
Planes, Trains and Automobile  John Hughes        US         1987
Playtime         Jacques Tati France        1967
Pledge, The         Sean Penn         US         2001
Prairie Home Companion, A  Robert Altman         US         2006
Producers, The         Mel Brooks         US         1968
Psycho        Alfred Hitchcock        US        1960
Pulp Fiction        Quentin Tarantino        US        1994
Raging Bull        Martin Scorsese        US         1980
Raiders Of The Lost Ark        Steven Spielberg        US        1981
Raise The Red Lantern        Zhang Yimou        China        1991
Ran  Akira Kurosawa         Japan         1985
Rashomon (Criterion)         Akira Kurosawa        Japan         1950
Rear Window        Alfred Hitchcock        US        1954
Rebel Without A Cause        Nicholas Ray US         1955
Red  Krzysztof Kieslowski        France         1994
Red Beard         Akira Kurosawa        Japan         1965
Red River         Howard Hawks         US         1948
Red Shoes, The         Michael Powell        UK        1948
Richard III        Richard Loncraine        UK         1995
Rififi         Jules Dassin         France         1955
Right Stuff, The  Philip Kaufman        US        1983
Rio Bravo         Howard Hawks        US         1959
Ripley's Game        Liliana Cavani        Italy        2002
River, The         Jean Renoir         France         1951
Rocco and His Brothers        Luchino Visconti        Italy        1960
Romeo and Juliet        Franco Zeffirelli        Italy        1968
Rules of The Game, The  Jean Renoir         France         1939
Safety Last        Harold Lloyd        US        1923
Samurai Rebellion         Masaki Kobayashi        Japan        1967
Sansho The Bailliff  Kenji Mizoguchi        Japan        1954
Santa Sangre        Alejandro Jodorowsky        Mexico        1989
Saturday Night Fever         John Badham         US         1977
Say Anything        Cameron Crowe        US         1989
Scarface (1983)        Brian De Palma         US         1983
Scarlet Empress, The         Josef Von Stenrberg         US         1934
Schindler's List        Steven Spielberg        US        1993
Searchers, The         John Ford         US         1956
Secrets and Lies  Mike Leigh        UK        1996
Senso        Luchino Visconti        Italy        1954
Seven        David Fincher        US        1995
Seven Samurai         Akira Kurosawa        Japan        1954
Seventh Seal, The  Ingmar Bergman        Sweden        1957
Shadow of A Doubt        Alfred Hitchcock        US        1943
Shane         George Stevens         US         1953
Shawshank Redemption, The Frank Darabont         US         1994
Shining, The         Stanley Kubrick        US         1980
Shoah        Claude Lanzman        France        1985
Silence of The Lambs, The  Jonathan Demme        US        1991
Silence, The (Criterion)        Ingmar Bergman        Sweden         1963
Singin' In The Rain         Stanley Donen         US         1952
Smiles of A Summer Night  Ingmar Bergman        Sweden         1955
Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs         Walt Disney  US         1937
Solaris         Andrei Tarkovsky        Russia         1972
Some Like It Hot Billy Wilder        US         1959
Souls For Sale         Rupert Hughes        US         1923
Spirit of The Beehive   Victor Erice    Spain   1973
Spirited Away         Hayao Miyazaki        Japan         2001
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring     Kim Ki Duk            
        South Korea 2003
Stagecoach         John Ford         US         1939
Star Wars         George Lucas         US         1977
Strangers on a Train        Alfred Hitchcock        US         1951
Stroszek        Werner Herzog        Germany        1977
Sunday in The Country, A        Bertrand Tavernier        France        1984
Sunrise        F.W. Murnau        US        1927
Sunset Boulevard         Billy Wilder        US         1950
Superman         Richard Donner         US         1978
Sweet Smell of Success  Alexander Mackendrick        US         1957
Swing Time        George Stevens        US        1936
Tale of Winter, A        Eric Rohmer        France        1992
Tender Mercies        Bruce Beresford        US        1983
Terrorist, The        Santosh Sivan        India        1999
Thief of Bagdad, The Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger  UK        1940
Thin Man, The         W.S. Van Dyke         US         1934
Third Man, The  Carol Reed         US        1949
This Is Spinal Tap Rob Reiner        US         1984
Through A Glass Darkly Ingmar Bergman        Sweden         1961
Tokyo Story  Yasujiro Ozu         Japan         1953
Top Gun         Tony Scott         US         1986
Touch of Evil         Orson Welles         US         1958
Touchez Pas Au Grisbi  Jacques Becker         France         1954
Treasure of The Sierra Madre, The         John Huston US        1948
Triumph of The Will        Leni Riefenstahl        Germany        1934
Trouble In Paradise         Ernst Lubitsch         US         1932
Ugetsu         Kenji Mizoguchi        Japan        1953
Umberto D (Criterion)        Vittorio De Sica         Italy         1952
Un Chien Andalou        Luis Bunuel        Spain        1929
Unforgiven        Clint Eastwood        US        1992
Up Documentaries        Michael Apted        UK        V
Vengeance Is Mine        Shohei Imamura        Japan        1979
Veronika Voss    Rainer Werner Fassbinder   Japan   1982
Vertigo        Alfred Hitchcock        US        1958
Victim        Basil Dearden        UK        1961
Viridiana         Luis Bunuel        Mexico        1961
W.R Mystery Of The Organism Dusan Makavejev        Serbia        1971
Waking Life        Richard Linklater        US        2001
Walkabout         Nicolas Roeg         Australia        1971
Werckmeister Harmonies        Bela Tarr        Hungary        2001
West Side Story        Robert Wise        US        1961
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane         Robert Aldrich US         1962
White         Krzysztof Kieslowski        France         1994
Wild Bunch, The  Sam Peckinpah        US         1969
Wings of Desire        Wim Wenders        Germany        1987
Winter Light (Criterion)        Ingmar Bergman        Sweden         1962
Withnail and I         Bruce Robinson         UK         1987
Wizard of Oz, The Victor Fleming        US         1939
Woman in The Dunes        Hiroshi Teshigahara        Japan        1964
Woman's Tale, A     Paul Cox        Australia        1991
Woodstock The Director's Cut  Michael Wadleigh        US         1970
World of Apu, The  Satyajit Ray  India        1959
Written On The Wind         Douglas Sirk  US        1956
Yankee Doodle Dandy        Michael Curtiz        US         1942
Year of The Quiet Sun, The        Krzysztof Zanussi        Poland        1984
Yellow Submarine         George Dunning         UK         1968
Yojimbo         Akira Kurosawa         Japan         1961