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182. Indian director Anand Gandhi's debut film “Ship of Theseus” (2012): A...
The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned from Crete had 30 oars, and was preserved by the Athenians, for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger...
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183. Russian director Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky’s US film “Runaway Train”...
Lady Anne: “No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity” King Richard: “But I know none, therefore am no beast.” --a conversation from Shakespeare’s Richard III,...
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184. US director Bennett Miller’s “Foxcatcher” (2014): Transcending the sport...
Foxcatcher is an amazing work of cinema from USA that recalls the quality of evolved filmmaking that one associate with Coppola’s The Conversation (1974), Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941)or Ridley Scott’s...
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185. Soviet/Russian maestro Sergei Eisenstein’s “Ivan the Terrible, Part II:...
The early works of Sergei Eisenstein such as TheBattleship Potemkin (1925) and October: Ten Days that Shook the World (1928) were indisputably testaments of the visual power of montage, crowd scenes...
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186. US directors Frank Perry’s and Sydney Pollack’s “The Swimmer” (1968):...
Short stories have made interesting feature films. In the UK, short-story writer Alan Sillitoe adapted his short story The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner into a film screenplay to make a film...
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187. French director Marcel Carné’s “Les Enfants du Paradis” (The Children of...
Mimes and circus clowns are sad personae who are loved by their audiences. Marcel Carné’s The Children of Paradise, if you have had the patience to view it for 3 hours and 10 minutes, will most likely...
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188. Italian director Paolo Sorrentino’s second English film “Youth” (2015):...
Youth is the most rewarding film of 2015. It is not just humorous; beyond the laughs, it has a depth that any inattentive viewer is likely to miss. It has deservedly won the Best Film, the Best...
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189. Colombian director César Augusto Acevedo’s debut film “La tierra y la...
For a debut film, César Augusto Acevedo’s Land and Shade is amazing in its simplicity and quiet power. Land and Shade is powerful because it deals with two things that mean a lot to most people--home...
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190. French director Stéphane Brizé’s “La loi du marché” (The Measure of a...
Economic stress can do strange things to an upright individual. Stéphane Brizé’s French film The Measure of a Man does not merely look at individuals who scramble for jobs to make a living, the film is...
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191. Japanese director Naomi Kawase’s “An” (Sweet Bean/Sweet Red Bean Paste)...
Globally, Naomi Kawase is not as well known as are Japanese filmmakers Akira Kurosawa, Yasijiro Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Masaki Kobayashi, Nagisa Oshima, Hiroshi Teshigahara and Shohei Imamura. Ms Kawase...
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192. Chilean director Patricio Guzmán’s spellbinding documentary feature film...
The Pearl Button is one of the most thought-provoking and visually stunning documentaries ever made. The incredible narration of the film, which deservedly won Patricio Guzmán the Silver Bear for the...
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193. Icelandic director Grímur Hákonarson’s film “Hrútar” (Rams) (2015),...
Rams is an unusual tale, remarkably told. Rams are male sheep and the entire film is appropriately about two dour male, hairy, unshaven Icelandic brothers. The two male characters, Gummi and Kiddi, are...
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194. Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s Farsi/Persian language film “Taxi”...
The difficult Kafkaesque conditions for the intellectuals and the financially insecure in Iran discussed in Taxi are indeed very real. I have visited Iran several times and therefore I have seen it all...
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195. Colombian director Ciro Guerra’s “El abrazo de la serpiente” (Embrace of...
Both posters above are predominantly in black and white, while colour is utilized sparingly and effectively, as in the film“The display I witnessed in those enchanted hours was such that I find it...
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196. Russian director-duo Grigory Kozintsev’s and Leonid Trauberg’s silent...
The exaggeration of the film's actors......is fundamental to the filmThe New Babylon is a Russian silent film, made in 1929, centred on the events related to the rise and brutal suppression of the 1871...
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197. US director Terrence Malick’s “Knight of Cups” (2016) (USA): A personal...
Not many films would end with the enigmatic word “Begin.” Knight of Cups ends that way. That gives one a clue of the feature film.Terrence Malick is amazingly well read and spiritual. He expects his...
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198. Italian maestro Luchino Visconti’s “Gruppo di famiglia in un interno”...
Conversation Piece-- the penultimate feature film of Luchino Visconti--is a complex, often confusing and yet ultimately a very rewarding film. It is so complex with a variety of distractions that could...
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199. Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky’s Russian film “Ray” (Paradise)...
“ A real director is not a director that makes films but who understands people. Or, in any case, tries to understand them because understanding people is, of course, impossible”–Andrei Konchalovsky...
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200. British director Ken Loach’s film “I, Daniel Blake” (2016) (UK):...
Several directors in Europe have in recent years made outstanding award-winning films on the subject of working class bread-winners losing their jobs and trying their best to claw back to a life of...
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201. Iranian director Reza Mirkarimi’s Farsi language film “Dokhtar”...
The year 2016 saw the release of two very interesting award-winning films from two countries from two continents. Both films deal with the father-daughter protective relationship under different...
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