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98.
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
USA 2004 DIR Quentin Tarantino
97.
Waltz With Bashir
Israel/Germany/France/USA/Finland/Switzerland/ Belgium/Australia 2008 DIR Ari Folman
96. The Science Of Sleep
France/UK/Italy 2006 DIR Michel Gondry
95.
I'm Not There
USA/Germany 2007 DIR Todd Haynes
94.
The
Piano Teacher
Austria/France/Germany 2001 DIR Michael Haneke
The second volume begins with a depiction of the
events leading up to the wedding chapel massacre. The Bride is at her
wedding rehearsal, along with her groom-to-be, Tommy Plympton (Chris Nelson).
'Quentin Tarantino's deliciously perverse semisequel is the most voluptuous comic-book movie ever made.' Elvis Mitchell
The film follows Stéphane Miroux (Gael García
Bernal) a man whose vivid dreams and imagination often interfere with his
ability to interact with reality.
'Michel Gondry's beguiling new film is so profoundly idiosyncratic, and so confident in its oddity, that any attempt to describe it is bound to be misleading.' A.O. Scott
Six actors depict different facets of Dylan's
life and public persona.
A caption reads: "Inspired by the music and the many lives of Bob Dylan."
'A powerfully reverent exercise in remystification, an attempt to waft some of the clouds of glory back around the great man, clouds that might have dispersed in recent years.' Peter Bradshaw
Erika Kohut (Isabelle Huppert) is a piano
professor at a Vienna music conservatory. She meets Walter Klemmer (Benoît
Magimel), a charming 17-year-old engineering student from a bourgeois background
and they begin to obsess one another.
A dark, intelligent, and thought-provoking examination of female repression. Sandi Chaitram
Wikus van de Merwe, an Afrikaner bureaucrat is
assigned to relocate a race of extraterrestrial creatures unexpectedly stranded
on Earth, from District 9, a military-guarded slum in Johannesburg.
'Intriguing, inventive and energetic, Blomkamp's feature debut is a thoroughly tasty prawn cocktail.' Film 4
Set in ancient China during the Warring States
period, the film stars
Jet Li as the nameless
protagonist, and is based on the story of
Jing Ke's assassination
attempt on the
King of Qin
in 227 BC.
'Demonstrates how the martial arts genre transcends action and violence and moves into poetry, ballet and philosophy.' Roger Ebert
Casino Royale is set at the beginning of Bond's
career as Agent 007, just as he is earning his licence to kill. Bond falls for
Vesper Lynd, a treasury agent, while trying to foil a high stakes poker game.
'Casino Royale has the answers to all my complaints about the 45-year-old James Bond series, and some I hadn't even thought of.' Roger Ebert
The film depicts the breakdown of society
following the accidental release of a highly contagious "rage" virus and focuses
upon the struggle of four survivors.
'A tough, smart, ingenious movie that leads its characters into situations where everything depends on their (and our) understanding of human nature.' Roger Ebert
Irréversible contains thirteen scenes presented
in reverse chronological order. Butcher the protagonist of Noé's previous film,
I Stand Alone, reveals that he was arrested for having sex with his daughter.
'The scenes play out in long, uninterrupted takes -- a feat of impressive technical and astonishing acting prowess.' Nev Pierce
The film takes place in 1805, during the
Napoleonic Wars. Captain Aubrey of HM Frigate Surprise is ordered to pursue the
French privateer Acheron and "burn, sink, or take her a prize."
'Masterful direction and commanding performances make this epic voyage highly see-worthy.' Michael Rechtshaffen
The film's protagonists are three American
brothers: Francis, Peter, and Jack Whitman, who haven't seen each other for a
year until they meet each other in a train that travels through
India.
'A better film [than Life Aquatic], warmer, more engaging, funnier and very surrounded by India, that nation of perplexing charm.' Roger Ebert
The Film follows members of the EOD unit on a
tour of duty as they contend with defusing bombs, the threat of insurgency, and
the tension that develops among them.
'For, in short, in its gutsy, bare-bones beauty, The Hurt Locker is not simply a war movie. It is war poetry.' Kevin Maher
The film tells the story of an elderly woman who
goes on a quest to rescue her grandson.
'A truly out-there piece of comic animation, the most outlandishly visual film of the year, this 80-minute French treat takes us into a world that can barely be described, a world unlike any we've seen before.' Kenneth Turan
The film features Viggo Mortensen as the owner of
a diner who is thrust into the spotlight after killing two robbers in
self-defence. He is then visited by gangsters who allege he is also a gangster.
'A gripping, incendiary, casually subversive piece of work that marries pulp watchability with larger concerns without skipping a beat.' Kenneth Turan
The film tells of a gigantic island-dwelling
gorilla-like creature called Kong who forms an attachment to an actress and ends
up in New York.
'This is spectacle filmmaking at its best, where a director is in tune with the story's underlying emotions and his own boyish love for adventure fantasy.' Kirk Honeycutt
Young Sophie Hatter is a responsible and
beautiful girl who runs her late father's hat shop. On her way to the bakery to
visit her sister, Lettie, she encounters by chance the mysterious wizard Howl.
'A stunning example of a pure, disorienting dream logic that cinema provides all too rarely.' Joshua Rothkopf
In the late 19th century, Ben Evans a Civil War
veteran has his barn torched by men working for Glen Hollander, whom he owes
money.
'Mangold has brought welcome intensity to the project, giving 3:10 to Yuma a visceral, immediate quality that makes it realistic and mythic all at the same time.' Kenneth Turan
Set during Sierra Leone Civil War in 1996-1999,
the film shows a country torn apart by the struggle between government soldiers
and rebel forces.
'Blood Diamond is very much aware that these are problems beyond easy and convenient resolution, and it is hard not to appreciate any film that understands that.' Kenneth Turan
The film depicts Ari Folman in search of his lost
memories from the 1982 Lebanon War where he witnessed the aftermath of a
massacre.
'The animated documentary Waltz With Bashir is a memoir, a history lesson, a combat picture, a piece of investigative journalism and an altogether amazing film.' A.O. Scott
Simon Pegg plays Shaun, a man attempting to get
some kind of focus in his life as well as coping with an apocalyptic uprising of
zombies.
'By treating the genre as a joke, this satire, whose title plays off George A. Romero's 1979 golden oldie, Dawn of the Dead, yields ironic dramatic dividends.' Stephen Holden
99.
Blood Diamond
USA/Germany 2006 DIR Edward Zwick
100.
Shaun Of The Dead
UK/France 2004 DIR Edgar Wright |
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