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Thursday, May 29, 2008

65. Alfred Hitchcock's "Marnie" (1964): Unusual Hitchcock—where marriage is preferred over jail by a strong-willed woman

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T his is NOT the stuff that director Hitchcock usually dealt with. The subject and the treatment of the subject are different from most of ...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

64. Russian (former Soviet) director Grigory Kozintsev’s "Korol Lir" (King Lear) (1971): An unsung masterpiece on "civilization heading to doom"

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T ime and again people have asked me which movie is my all time favorite. I have often said without much hesitation: the Russ...
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Saturday, April 26, 2008

63. Spanish director Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo’s feature debut “La noche de los girasoles (The night of the sunflowers)” (2006): A fascinating thriller

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H ere's a thriller with an interesting title that seems to query: Where do sunflowers face in the night? “ When the sunflower pla...
Friday, April 11, 2008

62. Haitian director Raoul Peck's US/French film "Sometimes in April" (2005): Remarkable feature film on the Rwandan genocide

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“ I n the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." Martin Luther King, Jr. (Opening q...
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Sunday, March 30, 2008

61. Iranian director Jafar Panahi's "Dayereh (The Circle)" (2000): Interesting cinema that calls for close evaluation

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A fter making two feature films and many short films on children, director Jafar Panahi made a third feature film, The Circle, where he de...
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Saturday, March 22, 2008

60. Spanish director Carlos Saura’s stunning documentary on the Portuguese folk song tradition "Fados" (2007): Direction upstaging the song and singer

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S eventy-six year young Carlos Saura charmed film lovers with several melancholic dance, music and song styles: flamenco in Flamenco (1995...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

59. Veteran Czech director Jiri Menzel's "I Served the King of England" (2006): Social and political satire at its best

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T he works of Czech director Jiri Menzel constitute a tasty cocktail of humanism and laughter. In I served the King of England this cockta...
Friday, February 29, 2008

58. Portuguese director Teresa Prata's Mozambican film "Terra Sonâmbula (Sleepwalking Land)" (2007): A lovely film based on a major African novel

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N ot many filmgoers may be aware of Portuguese director Teresa Prata’s Sleepwalking Land . A film that took Ms Prata some 7 years to complet...
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Sunday, February 10, 2008

57. Canadian filmmaker Paolo Barzman's second film "Emotional Arithmetic" (2007): Subtracting the past, adding the present and balancing the equation

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I t is fascinating how the horrors of World War II continue to spark off good, intelligent cinema around the world even after a gap of over ...
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Sunday, February 03, 2008

56. Turkish film director Abdullah Oguz' "Mutluluk (Bliss)" (2007): Taking Livaneli and resurgent Turkish cinema to wider audiences

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S ome forty years ago, one went to a movie because it was based on a famous book. Today, you are more likely to ferret out a book because t...
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Sunday, January 27, 2008

55. Chinese director Yang Zhang's "Luo ye gui gen (Getting Home)" (2007): Beguiling comedy that makes you reflect on human behavior

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"A falling leaf returns to its roots” is a Chinese proverb. This endearing film is based on this proverb. It is a modern day story of...
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Sunday, January 20, 2008

54. Chadean filmmaker Mahamet-Saleh Haroun's "Daratt (Dry Season)" (2006): Beyond the tooth for a tooth, eye for an eye equation

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T here are a handful of films from Africa that can leap out like a big cat from the celluloid jungle and make the viewer thin...
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Saturday, January 12, 2008

53. Japanese director Naomi Kawase's "Mogari no mori" (The Mourning Forest) (2007): Resurgent Japanese cinema blending nature with traditional values

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There are directors who write their own original stories and scripts and there are those directors who bring to the screen works of novelis...
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