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Friday, April 30, 2010

100. Australian director Andrew Dominik’s US film “The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford” (2007): A psychological maze

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I confess that this movie made me fall asleep after the first half hour. When I woke up, certain images from the film persist...
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Saturday, April 03, 2010

99. Japanese director Yojiro Takita’s “Okuribito” (Departures) (2008): Amazing grace of handling dead bodies

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M any viewers would be touched by the tale of an aspiring cellist, who accidentally becomes a mortician (an undertaker or a funeral direct...
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Thursday, March 11, 2010

98. Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s “Darbareye Elly” (About Elly) (2009): A vignette of modern Iranian society

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W hen a country such as Iran puts restrictions on its citizens' creativity, it is not surprising that great works of art emerge with a c...
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Saturday, February 20, 2010

97. Indian maestro Mrinal Sen’s “Khandhar" or "Khandahar” (The Ruins) (1984): Touching sensibilities, tugging at our conscience

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M y friends are amazed that I should rate a Mrinal Sen film among the very best in world cinema. In fact, there are two films of...
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Monday, February 08, 2010

96. Japanese maestro Mikio Naruse’s "Yama na Oto" (Sound of the Mountain/The Echo) (1954): Underlining profound Asian sensibilities

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M ikio Naruse’s cinema will appeal to many as it hits sensitive spots in the hearts and the minds of the viewer without resorting to the im...
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Sunday, January 31, 2010

95. Cuban director Tomas Alea’s "La última cena" (The Last Supper) (1976): A remarkable, trenchant Cuban classic

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C uban cinema does not often deal with religion; it is more at home with Leftist ideals. Its pro-Communist subjects have probably led promin...
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Thursday, December 24, 2009

94. French maestro Jacques Rivette’s “Around a Small Mountain (36 vues du Pic Saint Loup)" (2009): Deceptively simple cinema

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T o appreciate Rivette’s cinema one has to look beyond the obvious show—in this particular case a traveling circus in France, a ...
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Monday, December 21, 2009

93. Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami’s "Shirin" (2008): Audacious experimentation that’s awesome

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N o feature film has ever been made this way. Shirin , the latest work of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami is based on a love myth of K...
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Sunday, December 20, 2009

92. Polish director and scriptwriter Urszula Antoniak's debut film "Nothing Personal" (2009): Amazing tale on solitude beautifully told

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S olitude is often craved for by individuals who are thinkers (and sometimes by misanthropes, due...
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Thursday, December 03, 2009

91. British director Stephen Frears’ “The Hit” (1984) (UK): Dissecting duality in personalities

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O ften filmmakers unconsciously choose subjects and scripts that they find interesting, unaware of links between the subjects. My guess is ...
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Friday, October 02, 2009

90. US director Terrence Malick’s “The Thin Red Line" (1998): “What’s this war in the heart of nature?”

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I f I were to state that the most interesting filmmaker alive and making films today is an American named Terrence Malick, the statement i...
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