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4/4
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96%
|
The Big Sleep (1946) |
"
What you remember here are moments."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Jul 18, 2008
|
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4/4
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95%
|
Bande à part (Band of Outsiders) (1964) |
"
This 1964 feature remains one of Godard's most appealing and underrated films, relatively relaxed and strangely optimistic."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 3, 2008
|
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10/10
|
96%
|
I'm Going Home (2001) |
"
A miraculous movie, I'm Going Home is so slight, yet overflows with wisdom and emotion."
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Citysearch
Posted Aug 14, 2002
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4.5/5
|
95%
|
The Return (Vozvrashcheniye) (2003) |
"
The stunning feature film debut of Andrey Zvyagintsev, a Russian director who here renews the grand tradition of Russian cinematic mysticism epitomized by Andrei Tarkovsky."
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New York Times
Posted Feb 5, 2004
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|
4.5/5
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90%
|
Together (Tillsammans) (2001) |
"
A funny, graceful and immensely good-natured work."
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New York Times
Posted Aug 24, 2001
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|
4.5/5
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96%
|
With A Friend Like Harry (2001) |
"
A strange and funny film, smart, complex and difficult to shake."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 19, 2001
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4/5
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51%
|
Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004) |
"
Michael Schultz's powerful melodrama renews an important tradition of African-American filmmaking: the movie as revivalist sermon."
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New York Times
Posted Sep 30, 2004
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4/5
|
43%
|
Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye (2004) |
"
It is a strange, beautiful, disturbing and at times literally painful work."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 22, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
69%
|
Brothers in Arms (2005) |
"
Filmed before the Swift boat veterans brouhaha, Paul Alexander's partisan documentary is effective filmmaking."
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New York Times
Posted Aug 26, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
96%
|
Festival Express (2003) |
"
Festival Express seems to step directly out its period and is guaranteed to thrill both survivors of those times and younger viewers who may know little of them."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 29, 2004
|
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4/5
|
90%
|
Hiding and Seeking (2004) |
"
The documentary filmmakers Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky return with a provocative personal essay film centered on Mr. Daum's tendentious relationship with his two sons."
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New York Times
Posted Feb 5, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
Tibet - Cry of the Snow Lion (2003) |
"
A more concise and affecting summation of the Tibetan crisis would be hard to imagine."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 18, 2003
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Balseros (2003) |
"
A coherent and emotionally satisfying tale."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 24, 2003
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
Secret Lives - Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII (2001) |
"
Complex and moving."
—
New York Times
Posted May 16, 2003
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
Medea (1987) |
"
No admirer of Mr. von Trier's work should miss this compelling rarity."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 17, 2003
|
|
4/5
|
80%
|
Ghosts of the Abyss (2003) |
"
Haunting and beautiful 3-D documentary."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 11, 2003
|
|
4/5
|
82%
|
Horns and Halos (2002) |
"
A rich tale of our times, very well told with an appropriate minimum of means."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 27, 2003
|
|
4/5
|
60%
|
Stripped (2002) |
"
Far from sleek and polished, in the manner of HBO, but it's much the better for it. Ms. Morley leaves in her contradictions and loose ends, where a more 'professional' approach to this material would probably try to obscure them behind slick graphics."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 8, 2002
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart - A Film About Wilco (2002) |
"
Fans of the band will know that the album was eventually released by Nonesuch and became a success. Yet Mr. Jones manages to generate some authentic dramatic tension and suspense."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 5, 2002
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
Lagaan - Once Upon a Time in India (2001) |
"
This is a movie that knows its business -- pleasing a broad, popular audience -- and goes about it with savvy professionalism and genuine flair."
—
New York Times
Posted May 8, 2002
|
|
4/5
|
91%
|
Le Fond de l'air est rouge (A Grin Without a Cat) (The Base of the Air Is Red) (1977) |
"
A work of extraordinary journalism, but it is also a work of deft and subtle poetry."
—
New York Times
Posted May 1, 2002
|
|
4/5
|
67%
|
30 Years to Life (2002) |
"
A light, engaging, well-carpentered film, with a quick wit and a sense of character just deep enough to lend some weight to the laugh lines."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 4, 2002
|
|
4/5
|
58%
|
Wendigo (2002) |
"
For those in search of something different, Wendigo is a genuinely bone-chilling tale."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 14, 2002
|
|
4/5
|
83%
|
Cool & Crazy (2001) |
"
Consistently offbeat and entertaining."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 19, 2001
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
Iron Monkey (2001) |
"
The story is fairly generic, but plot has as little to do with the pleasures of kung fu movies as story lines do in musicals."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 12, 2001
|
|
4/5
|
69%
|
Thomas in Love (Thomas est amoureux) (2000) |
"
The film is full of ingenious details and effective character sketches (Thomas has a mother who would give Woody Allen the willies) that go a long way toward covering up its conventionalities."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 3, 2001
|
|
|
19%
|
Red Sonja (1985) |
"
The dialogue passages don't exactly play like Noel Coward, but this is a movie that succeeds rousingly well on its own humble, Saturday-night terms."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Jul 9, 2010
|
|
|
100%
|
Le Beau Mariage (A Good Marriage) (1982) |
"
A comedy in the classic sense."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 7, 2010
|
|
|
——
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San Pietro (The Battle of San Pietro) (1945) |
"
A great film, and certainly among Huston's best work."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 6, 2010
|
|
|
100%
|
The Barefoot Contessa (1954) |
"
An imperfect film, but its excesses are as suggestive as its subtleties."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 23, 2010
|
|
|
100%
|
Black Narcissus (1947) |
"
Powell's equally extravagant visual style transforms it into a landscape of the mind -- grand and terrible in its thorough abstraction."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 23, 2010
|
|
|
89%
|
Bananas (1971) |
"
It is a funny picture - not too consistently, and certainly not too coherently, but when it hits, it hits."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 18, 2010
|
|
|
100%
|
The Prowler (Cost of Living ) (1951) |
"
This hallucinatory film noir is still, for me, Joseph Losey's best film."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 16, 2010
|
|
|
100%
|
Scarface (1932) |
"
Howard Hawks's 1932 masterpiece is a dark, brutal, exhilaratingly violent film, blending comedy and horror in a manner that suggests Chico Marx let loose with a live machine gun."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 2, 2010
|
|
|
100%
|
Narayama bushiko (Ballad of Narayama) (1984) |
"
Imamura's rough sexual humor is still in evidence, but now it has taken on a dark tone: to make love is to flirt with death."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 8, 2010
|
|
|
100%
|
Ballad of a Soldier (1959) |
"
One of those "universal" tales that are so often vague and sticky, but the simplicity and restraint of director Grigori Chukhrai lift it above the run."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 8, 2010
|
|
|
98%
|
Badlands (1974) |
"
Days of Heaven put Terrence Malick's intuitions into cogent form, but this is where his art begins."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 8, 2010
|
|
|
95%
|
The Bad and the Beautiful (1953) |
"
Under Minnelli's direction it becomes a fascinating study of a man destroyed by the 50s success ethic, left broke, alone, and slightly insane in the end."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 5, 2010
|
|
|
83%
|
À nos amours (To Our Loves) (Suzanne) (1983) |
"
His unorthodox dramatic construction rejects the symmetry of classical plotting, and the narrative has a quirky, self-propelling quality that allows for some astonishing things to happen."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Jan 26, 2010
|
|
|
89%
|
Horror of Dracula (1958) |
"
This Grand Guignol treatment bowled people over in the 50s, and it still yields some potent shocks."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Oct 19, 2009
|
|
|
87%
|
Day of the Triffids (1963) |
"
A sci-fi thriller (1963) that sticks in the mind, thanks to deft pacing and a vividly paranoid premise."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted May 29, 2009
|
|
|
90%
|
Saturday Night Fever (1977) |
"
A small, solid film, made with craft if not resonance."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 27, 2009
|
|
|
100%
|
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) |
"
Perhaps the greatest and most revolutionary of Bresson's films, Balthazar is a difficult but transcendently rewarding experience, never to be missed."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 27, 2009
|
|
|
100%
|
White Heat (1949) |
"
Raoul Walsh's heroes had a knack for going too far, but none went further than James Cagney in this roaring 1949 gangster piece."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 27, 2009
|
|
|
100%
|
Der Letzte Mann (The Last Laugh) (1925) |
"
The 1924 film in which F.W. Murnau freed his camera from its stationary tripod and took it on a flight of imagination and expression that changed the way movies were made."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 27, 2009
|
|
|
96%
|
Gun Crazy (Deadly Is the Female) (1950) |
"
One of the most distinguished works of art to emerge from the B movie swamp."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 27, 2009
|
|
|
100%
|
The Grapes of Wrath (1940) |
"
Ford's admirers have rightly tended to play this down in favor of his later and more personal westerns, but there's much to admire here in Gregg Toland's sun-beaten photography and Henry Fonda's meticulous performance."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 27, 2009
|
|
|
100%
|
Shadow of a Doubt (1943) |
"
Alfred Hitchcock's first indisputable masterpiece."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 24, 2009
|
|
|
97%
|
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) |
"
A great film, rich in thought and feeling, composed in rhythms that vary from the elegiac to the spontaneous."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 24, 2009
|
|
|
100%
|
Cool Hand Luke (1967) |
"
Stuart Rosenberg's direction is a horror, but the cast teems with so many familiar faces that this 1967 film can't help but entertain."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 23, 2009
|
67%
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98%
