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Sunday, July 12, 2009

86. Actor Tommy Lee Jones’ debut directorial effort "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" (USA/France) (2005): Amazing grey actions in life

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T he more you reflect on The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada , the more you begin to appreciate what the value-added film has to offer ...
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Monday, June 22, 2009

85. British director Roland Joffe’s “The Mission” (1986) (UK): A script for all seasons

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T he Mission is a movie set in South America delving on the Spanish/Portuguese colonization in the 17th century. Some viewers of the film...
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Saturday, May 30, 2009

84. Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski’s “Trzy kolory: Czerwony" (Three Colors: Red) (1994):The color at the rainbow's edge and the optical spectrum

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R ed (Trois couleurs: Rouge) is the last film made by a master of cinema. Having made his stunning 10-part Dekalog and following it by T...
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Sunday, April 19, 2009

83. German director Tom Tykwer’s film “Das parfum (Perfume: The story of a murderer)” (2006): Capturing the smell of the bizarre with sight and sound

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G erman cinema through the ages has shown an incredible felicity of dealing with the bizarre. And Das Parfum is no exception. ...
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Sunday, April 05, 2009

82. US director-screenplay writer Tony Gilroy’s debut film “Michael Clayton” (2007): A screenplay, a writer would like to direct without compromises

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M ichael Clayton is an unusual Hollywood film of substance. Unusual it is, for several reasons. Rarely does a Hollywood film get release...
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Sunday, March 01, 2009

81. Sergio Leone’s "Giù la Testa" (Duck, you sucker!/ Fistful of dynamite/Once upon a time—the Revolution) (1971): Revolutions as black comedies

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The revolution is not a social dinner, a literary event, a drawing or an embroidery; it cannot be done with elegance and courtesy. The revo...
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Sunday, January 25, 2009

80. French director Laurent Cantet’s “Entre les murs (The Class)” (2008): A beguiling, stimulating feature film on education resembling a documentary

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I t is not often that you come across a movie that has as its lead actor, the very writer of the novel on which the film is based. Laurent ...
Sunday, January 18, 2009

79. French director Laurent Salgues’ debut film “Rêves de poussière (Dreams of Dust)” (2008): Infusing dignity and elegance to cinema on Africa

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T he opening sequence of films often indicates the quality of cinema that follows. Writers and journalists are aware that they need to grab ...
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Monday, January 05, 2009

78. Algerian director Amor Hakkar’s French/Algerian film “La maison jaune (The yellow house)” (2008): Underscoring goodness in humankind

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D irected, written, acted (playing the lead role of Mouloud) and co-edited by Amor Hakkar, The yellow house will win hearts anywhere. It i...
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Saturday, December 27, 2008

77. Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Üç maymun (Three Monkeys)” (2008): Mastery of contemporary, contemplative cinema

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N uri Bilge Ceylan’s latest film Three Monkeys proved to me that Turkish cinema can rub shoulders with the very best in contempora...
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