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jan
01: Gattaca (1997), d. Andrew Niccol, 8.0*
02: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), d. Oliver Stone, 6.0*
03: The Lives of Others (2006), d. Florian Henckel von Donnersmark, 9.0
04: No Reservations (2007), d. Scott Hicks, 5.0*
05: Silver Linings Playbook (2012), d. David O. Russell, 8.0*
06: The Next Three Days (2010), d. Paul Haggis, 7.5*
07: The Yes Men Fix the World (2009), d. The Yes Men, 8.0*
feb
08: High and Low (1963), d. Akira Kurosawa, 8.5*
09: Rebecca (1940), d. Alfred Hitchcock, 7.0*
10: Heaven (2002), d. Tom Tykwer, 8.5
11: Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001), d. Jan Harlan, 7.5
12: Pickpocket (1959), d. Robert Bresson, 8.0*
13: Sansho the Bailiff (1954), d. Kenji Mizoguchi, 8.5*
14: Stray Dog (1949), d. Akira Kurosawa, 7.0*
15: The Earrings of Madame de... (1953), d. Max Ophuls, 8.5*
mar
16: The Insider (1999), d. Michael Mann, 9.5
17: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), d. Steven Spielberg, 8.5
18: Margaret (2011), d. Kenneth Lonergan, 7.5*
19: Games (1967), d. Curtis Harrington, 6.5*
20: Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), d. Benh Zeitlin, 8.0*
apr
21: The Graduate (1967), d. Mike Nichols, 8.5*
22: Fallen Angels (1995), d. Wong Kar-Wai, 6.5*
23: Sound of My Voice (2011), d. Zal Batmanglij, 6.0*
24: Kumare (2011), d. Vikram Gandhi, 6.5*
25: The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), d. Derek Cianfrance, 8.5*
26: The Master (2012), d. Paul Thomas Anderson, 7.0*
27: The Killing (1956), d. Stanley Kubrick, 8.5*
28: Serpico (1973), d. Sidney Lumet, 7.5*
29: The Stranger (1946), d. Orson Welles, 7.0*
30: The Imposter (2012), d. Bart Layton, 7.5*
31: Notorious (1946), d. Alfred Hitchcock, 8.0*
may
32: Oblivion (2013), d. Joseph Kosinski, 6.0*
33: The Other Guys (2010), d. Adam McKay, 6.0*
34: The Panic in Needle Park (1971), d. Jerry Schatzberg, 8.0*
june
35: Bigger Than Life (1956), d. Nicholas Ray, 8.0*
july
36: World War Z (2013), d. Marc Forster, 7.0*
aug
37: Argo (2012), d. Ben Affleck, 7.5*
38: Elysium (2013), d. Neill Blomkamp, 8.0*
39: The Worlds End (2013), d. Edgar Wright, 7.0*
40: Zodiac (2007), d. David Fincher, 8.0*
sept
41: The Past (2013), d. Asghar Farhadi, 8.5*
42: The Fake (2013), d. Sang-ho Yeon, 8.0*
43: The Liberator (2013), d. Alberto Arvelo, 6.5*
44: Salvation Army (2013), d. Abdellah Taia, 3.5*
45: Quiz Show (1994), d. Robert Redford, 7.0*
46: Prisoners (2013), d. Denis Villeneuve, 8.0*
oct
47: Rush (2013), d. Ron Howard, 8.0*
48: Gravity (2013), d. Alfonso Cuaron, 9.0*
49: Gravity (2013), d. Alfonso Cuaron, 9.0
50: Captain Phillips (2013), d. Paul Greengrass, 7.5*
51: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), d. Stanley Kubrick, 9.5
52: Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010), d. Banksy, 8.0*
53: Children of Men (2006), d. Alfonso Cuaron, 9.0
54: Side Effects (2013), d. Steven Soderbergh, 7.0*
55: Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), d. Peter Weir, 8.0*
nov
56: After the Wedding (2006), d. Susanne Beir, 7.5*
57: Husbands and Wives (1992), d. Woody Allen, 7.5*
58: Django Unchained (2012), d. Quentin Tarantino, 7.0*
59: 12 Years a Slave (2013), d. Steve McQueen, 9.5*
60: L.A. Confidential (1997), d. Curtis Hanson, 8.0*
2012
jan
01: Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999), d. Errol Morris, 9.0*
02: Gates of Heaven (1978), d. Errol Morris, 6.5*
feb
03: Why We Fight (2005), d. Eugene Jarecki, 8.5
mar
04: 50/50 (2011), d. Jonathan Levine, 8.0*
05: We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), d. Lynne Ramsay, 8.0*
06: Midnight in Paris (2011), d. Woody Allen, 8.0*
apr
07: Bridesmaids (2011), d. Paul Feig, 7.5*
08: Shame (2011), d. Steve McQueen, 8.0*
09: The Inbetweeners Movie (2011), d. Ben Palmer, 6.0*
may
10: Key Largo (1948), d. John Huston, 8.0*
11: Blue Velvet (1986), d. David Lynch, 8.5*
12: Stalker (1979), d. Andrei Tarkovsky, 8.5*
june
13: Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011), d. Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, 7.0*
14: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004), d. Rawson Marshall Thurber, 6.0*
15: Drive (2011), d. Nicolas Winding Refn, 8.0*
16: The Apartment (1960), d. Billy Wilder, 8.5*
july
none!
aug
17: Moonrise Kingdom (2012), d. Wes Anderson, 8.0*
18: Contagion (2011), d. Steven Soderbergh, 9.0
19: Melancholia (2011), d. Lars von Trier, 8.0*
20: A Separation (2011), d. Asghar Farhadi, 7.5*
sept
21: The Perverts Guide to Ideology (2012), d. Sophie Fiennes, 8.5*
22: Hannah Arendt (2012), d. Margarethe von Trotta, 7.0*
23: Extraordinary Measures (2010), d. Tom Vaughan, 5.0*
24: Senna (2010), d. Asif Kapadia, 9.0*
oct
25: Looper (2012), d. Rian Johnson, 8.0*
26: Marathon Man (1976), d. John Schlesinger, 7.5
27: The Perverts Guide to Cinema (2006), d. Sophie Fiennes, 8.5
28: The Thing (1982), d. John Carpenter, 6.0*
nov
29: My Dinner With Andre (1981), d. Louis Malle, 8.5*
30: Happiness (1998), d. Todd Solondz, 8.0*
31: The Usual Suspects (1998), d. Bryan Singer, 7.0*
dec
32: Lincoln (2012), d. Steven Spielberg, 8.5*
33: Mary and Max (2009), d. Adam Elliot, 9.0*
34: Carnage (2011), d. Roman Polanski, 8.0*
35: In a Better World (2010), d. Susanne Bier, 7.0*
36: Detachment (2011), d. Tony Kaye, 7.0*
37: Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011), d. Sean Durkin, 8.0*
2011
jan
01: Dont Look Now (1973), d. Nicolas Roeg, 10.0*
02: The Corporation (2003), d. Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott, 9.0
03: Blindness (2008), d. Fernando Meirelles, 6.0*
04: Cache (Hidden) (2005), d. Michael Haneke, 8.0*
05: Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), d. James Foley, 8.5*
06: Far From Heaven (2002), d. Todd Haynes, 6.5*
07: Black Swan (2010), d. Darren Aronofsky, 8.5*
08: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), d. Michel Gondry, 9.0
09: The Shawshank Redemption (1994), 9.0
10: Casino Royale (2006), d. Martin Campbell, 7.5*
11: Life in a Day (2011), d. Kevin Macdonald, 9.0*
12: Philadelphia (1993), d. Jonathan Demme, 6.5*
13: Rabbit Hole (2010), d. John Cameron Mitchell, 8.0*
14: Blue Valentine (2010), d. Derek Cianfrance, 8.5*
feb
15: Following (1998), d. Christopher Nolan, 6.0*
16: The Night of the Hunter (1955), d. Charles Laughton, 8.0*
17: The Kings Speech (2010), d. Tom Hooper, 8.0*
18: The Beautiful Country (2004), d. Hans Petter Moland, 9.0*
19: The Brave One (2007), d. Neil Jordan, 4.0*
20: Breach (2007), d. Billy Ray, 6.5*
21: The Kids Are All Right (2010), d. Lisa Cholodenko, 8.0*
22: Winters Bone (2010), d. Debra Granik, 6.5*
mar
23: Homicide (1991), d. David Mamet, 7.0*
24: Anatomy of a Murder (1959), d. Otto Preminger, 8.5*
25: Flushed Away (2007), d. David Bowers and Sam Fell, 6.0*
26: Catfish (2010), d. Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, 8.0*
27: Leon (1994), d. Luc Besson, 8.0
28: The Blair Witch Project (1999), d. Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez, 6.0*
29: Cassandras Dream (2007), d. Woody Allen, 6.5*
apr
30: The Silence of the Lambs (1991), d. Jonathan Demme, 9.0
31: Hannibal (2001), d. Ridley Scott, 8.0
32: Red Dragon (2002), d. Brett Ratner, 7.5
33: Hannibal Rising (2007), d. Peter Webber, 3.0*
34: The Counterfeiters (2007), d. Stefan Ruzowitzky, 8.5*
35: Maxed Out (2006), d. James D. Scurlock, 7.0*
36: Before the Devil Knows Youre Dead (2007), d. Sidney Lumet, 9.5
may
37: Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), d. Chris Columbus, 7.5
38: The Virgin Spring (1960), d. Ingmar Bergman, 9.0
39: Diabolique (1955), d. Henri-Georges Clouzot, 8.5*
40: Grave of the Fireflies (1988), d. Isao Takahata, 10.0
june
41: Kundun (1997), d. Martin Scorsese, 8.5*
42: The Kings Speech (2010), d. Tom Hooper, 8.0
43: Wall Street (1987), d. Oliver Stone, 8.0*
44: The Tree of Life (2011), d. Terrence Malick, 8.5*
45: Stone (2010), d. John Curran, 8.5
46: Vegas Vacation (1997), d. Stephen Kessler, 5.5*
47: Flow: For Love of Water (2008), d. Irena Salina, 9.0*
48: Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets (1984), d. Keith Merrill, 7.0*
july
49: The Godfather (1972), d. Francis Ford Coppola, 9.0
50: Awaara (1951), d. Raj Kapoor, 8.0*
51: The Conversation (1974), d. Francis Ford Coppola, 8.5*
52: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2009), d. Tim Burton, 6.5*
53: The Godfather: Part II (1974), d. Francis Ford Coppola, 9.0
54: The Road (2009), d. John Hillcoat, 8.5*
55: Peepli (Live) (2010), d. Anusha Rizvi and Mahmood Farooqui, 5.5*
56: You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger (2010), d. Woody Allen, 7.0*
57: Inside Job (2010), d. Charles Ferguson, 9.0
aug
58: The Visitor (2007), d. Thomas McCarthy, 8.0*
59: The Wolf Man (1941), d. George Waggner, 6.0*
sept
60: Magnolia (1999), d. Paul Thomas Anderson, 9.5
61: The Debt (2011), d. John Madden, 7.5*
62: Monster Club (2011), d. Toshiaki Toyoda, 8.5*
63: Among Us (2011), d. Marco van Geffen, 8.5*
64: Contagion (2011), d. Steven Soderbergh, 9.0*
oct
none!
nov
65: Zizek! (2005), d. Astra Taylor, 7.5*
66: The Fountainhead (1949), d. King Vidor, 8.0
dec
67: Little Children (2006), d. Todd Field, 8.5*
68: Lenny (1974), d. Bob Fosse, 8.0*
69: An Unreasonable Man (2008), d. Henriette Mantel and Steve Skrovan, 7.5*
70: Elf (2003), d. Jon Favreau, 7.0
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An error has ocurred. Please try againThough Che (2008) and Loro (2018) each appear as two different films on this list, they were screened as one. Directors with more than one film are Marco Bellochio, Paulo Sorrentino, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Samuel Maoz.
Reviews
The Father (2020)
Something I'll never forget
This is a film that stays with you. Of course there's the brilliant performances but there's more. While other films have taken on old age and dementia, those films took on coping with a significant other's condition. The difference here is that the film is from the sufferer's perspective. You therefore see these events as if you yourself have dementia. And it's stunning how, when you walk away, you know you can.
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
The little movie that will wow audiences this year
There has already been some talk coming from Telluride that this film is set to be this year's 'Juno.' It does have the same distributor and it is set for the same release period, and for anyone who hears this buzz, they will definitely not be disappointed.
During the premiere of the final cut (in the words of director Danny Boyle) at the Toronto International Film Festival, the audience gave the film an incredibly enthusiastic response, and it went on to win the People's Choice Award. Boyle, who is somewhat like a British Richard Linklater for yet again surprising the audience with such diverse subject matter, worked his magic. He transcended genres and created a truly unique and energetic picture.
Just about every aspect of this film deserves merit, and above all it belongs to Boyle, who managed to assemble such a massive achievement. The score by A. R. Rahman, with contributions from M. I. A., perfectly accompanies the action on screen. Still, it is great enough to be listened to on its own. With India as a backdrop, Boyle and his cinematographer have composed some remarkable images. The acting is roundly impressive, especially coming from the younger cast, almost all of which has never acted before.
The film begins as Jamal (Skins' Dev Patel) is under interrogation by Mumbai police for cheating on India's version of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire, being only one question away from winning it all. As the inspector says, even doctors and lawyers cannot come close to the 20m rupee prize, and so Jamal, having grown up on the streets of Mumbai, cannot possibly know these things. As Jamal tries to avoid further torture, he begins to explain to the police how he knew each of the answers. Flashbacks present Jamal's boyhood and explain how he got to the show.
At the centre of his journey is his brother, Salim, and a girl, Latika, who is left a homeless orphan after an attack that took Jamal's mother as well. After running from a man who exploits the trio for labour, Jamal replays the incident when Latika left his life when she was unable to catch a moving train. His uncertainty of her fate on the streets of Mumbai and his intense desire to see his first and only love again lead him to the interrogation room where the film began.
Like 'Juno,' Slumdog Millionaire is by genre a comedic drama, but it becomes much more. The film asks questions about fate, righteousness, greed, and even urban sprawl. Above all, however, it asks about love in the face of the most dire obstacles, and if it can truly prosper. Jamal's story is a tragic and unfortunate one, but as seen through his eyes, it is still beautiful. The vast colour palate of India overwhelm any negative feelings, and Jamal's hope of finding and being with Latika overwhelm despair. For Jamal, 20m rupees isn't his prize. It would be nearly impossible for there to be a better picture this year.