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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

176. Japanese director Naomi Kawase’s “Still the Water” (Futatsume no mado) (2014): A perspective on death, grief, and continuity for those alive and questioning their lives’ meaning

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N aomi Kawase stated that she expected to win the Golden Palm at the 2014 Cannes film festival for her film S...
Sunday, March 29, 2015

175. Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Winter Sleep” (Kis Uykusu) (2014): Top-notch contemporary cinema that will satiate a patient, intelligent viewer

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W inter Sleep is one of the outstanding cinematic works of 2014. Winter Sleep is a daunting 196 minutes long movie an...
Friday, February 13, 2015

174. Belgian directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s francophone film “Two Days, One Night” (Deux jours, une nuit) (2014): Ethics and self-interest in a job-insecure world

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T he Dardenne brothers’ work Two Days, One Night is typical of a movie that makes you think beyond its apparent light-hear...
Friday, January 30, 2015

173. US director Damien Chazelle’s second feature film “Whiplash” (2014): The ultimate Svengali levelled

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“ I saw a drive in him” — Terence Fletcher in Whiplash, referring to his former student Sean Casey  “ The next Charlie Parker wo...
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Saturday, January 10, 2015

172. Argentine director Damián Szifrón’s “Wild Tales” (Relatos salvajes) (2014): Black comedy that entertains while making us introspect

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The "wild" characters from the six segments W ild Tales is a gem of an entertainer made up of six stand-alone, dar...
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Friday, January 02, 2015

171. Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev’s film “Leviathan” (2014): A bold political film made with a superb aesthetic flourish

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“ During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condit...
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