http://www.imdb.com/list/3c0ojdPrr7Q/ Sun, 16 Sep 2012 08:13:56 GMT Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:21:13 GMT Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:30 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2132324/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2132324/ aka WHITE ELEPHANT, a powerful well made film with a strong secular fundamentalist message. <br/>Two Catholic priests must contend with drug lords, corrupt cops and their own demons as they seek to care for the residents of a Buenos Aires slum in this gripping drama from acclaimed Argentinian director Pablo Trapero (Carancho). Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:30 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2184227/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2184227/ Italian master Marco Bellocchio (Fists in the Pocket, Good Morning, Night, Vincere) offers a multi-faceted exploration of the thorny issue of euthanasia in this response to Italy's famous Eluana Englaro controversy. Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:30 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2106476/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2106476/ Mads Mikkelsen won the Best Actor prize at Cannes for his performance as an innocent man accused of child molestation in this ferociously powerful new film by Thomas Vinterberg (The Celebration). Steve Gordon's all time favorite film. I think Mads' performance deserves Oscar consideration. Certain to be one of the year's defining and most controversial films, The Hunt is an intelligent and disturbing dissection of Danish society<br/>Thomas Vinterberg was born in Copenhagen. He made his feature debut with The Biggest Heroes (96). His second feature, The Celebration (98), won numerous awards worldwide, including the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. His other features are It's All About Love (03), Dear Wendy (05), When a Man Comes Home (07), Submarino (10) and The Hunt (12). Strongly associated with Dogme 95 film construction. Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:30 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1854236/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1854236/ Danish director Susanne Bier made her international reputation with a series of stirring, powerful dramas, from Open Hearts to Brothers to the Academy Award®–winning In a Better World. But this remarkably accomplished filmmaker has always had a lighter side as well, as evidenced by her breakthrough film The One and Only, which initiated Bier's long collaboration with her frequent star Paprika Steen. Steen returns alongside Trine Dyrholm and Pierce Brosnan in Love Is All You Need, a sparkling romantic comedy that revives the spirit of Bier's earlier work. Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:30 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1674772/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1674772/ Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:30 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1674773/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1674773/ Those us who are Jewish may have a problem with this seriously probing film. However if you can be objective, you may see that Hannah does have a point. Barbara Sukowa ABSOLUTELY deserves Oscar consideration, but will not get it due to this being a German film.<br/><br/>Margarethe von Trotta's impressive oeuvre attests to her fascination with great women of all kinds, from twelfth-century Christian mystic Hildegard von Bingen to Marxist firebrand Rosa Luxemburg. With her new film about the German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt (1906–75), von Trotta undertook a particularly difficult challenge. While Arendt's life was hardly lacking in drama — a harrowing escape from Nazi Germany, friendships and affairs with giants of the intellectual world, and involvement in some of the great political controversies of the day — her renown rested less on actions than on her influential body of thought, perhaps not the most innately cinematic of subjects. But beyond its historical and human drama, Hannah Arendt is an attempt, in von Trotta's words, to transform &quot;thought into a film.&quot; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:30 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0787442/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0787442/ Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:30 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1964624/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1964624/ Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:30 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1829012/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1829012/ Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:30 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1491044/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1491044/ Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:30 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1931533/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1931533/ Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:30 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2259360/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2259360/ Chen Kaige, from China, another elegant production on a very relevant contemporary subject, the misuse of the internet. Insignificant innocent behaviour transmitted to millions can create negative unwanted reactions. His work is masterful in every sense of the word. An example of cyber bulling and online voyeurism.<br/><br/>Chen Kaige was born in Beijing. His feature films Together (02) and To Each His Own Cinema (07). His other features include Yellow Earth (84), Farewell My Concubine (93), which earned him the FIPRESCI Prize and Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Temptress Moon (96), Killing Me Softly (02), The Promise (05), Forever Enthralled (08), Sacrifice (10 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:30 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1951166/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1951166/ Costa-Gavras has created another work of genius. His &quot;Z&quot; is one of my all time favorites. With CAPITAL he has tackled an issue of the moment, again not fearing controversy. His dissection of the current capitalist system holds nothing back. Since the 2008 bailouts bank scandals are still here and Gavras presents this scathing drama. the production values are of the highest order. The world locations alone are worth the price of your time and money.<br/> Costa-Gavras was born in Greece. He studied at France’s Institut des hautes études cinématographiques and worked as an assistant director before directing his first feature, The Sleeping Car Murders (65). His other features include Z (69), The Confession (70), State of Siege (72), Missing (82), Music Box (89), Mad City (97), Amen. (02) Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:30 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2115295/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2115295/ Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:30 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1595656/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1595656/ Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck, Javier Bardem and Olga Kurylenko star in the new film from Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life), about a man who reconnects with a woman from his hometown after his marriage to a European woman falls apart. Malick to me is the best filmmaker working today, and if you did not like my favorite film last year, TREE OF LIFE, then skip this one. This is the shortest period of time between films for Malick, sometimes up to 20 years.<br/><br/>&quot;Malick studied philosophy at Harvard, and at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar; before he became a filmmaker, he translated Martin Heidegger. For all its visual poetry, his work shows a passionate interest in ideas. Where The New World and The Tree of Life open themselves to analysis of spirituality and ethics, To the Wonder continues that intellectual investigation into the realm of politics and faith. It is also, like The Tree of Life, gloriously engaged with cinematic form itself.&quot; TRANSCENDENTAL VISUAL POETRY by a true film making master.<br/>Terrence Malick is an award-winning director-writer-producer whose prolific career has spanned over four decades. His feature film Days of Heaven (78) earned him the Best Director award at Cannes and The Tree of Life (11) won last year's Palme d’Or. His other features are Badlands (73), The Thin Red Line (98), The New World (05 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:30 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1850419/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1850419/ Acclaimed Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi (A Time for Drunken Horses) directs Monica Bellucci and Iranian superstar Behrouz Vossoughi in this haunting, dreamlike love story that spans three decades. Monica Bellucci has never been better, and be it not for Kurdish language should be considered for an Oscar. An absolutely beautiful film that is probably the best unrequited film ever made. A haunting love story that spans three decades, Rhino Season is based on the tragic story of a Kurdish poet and family friend of Ghobadi’s who was unjustly incarcerated during Iran’s Islamic Revolution. The victim of a personal vendetta, Sahel (Iranian superstar Behrouz Vossoughi) is thrown into prison along with his devoted wife Mina.<br/>Bahman Ghobadi was born in Baneh, Iran, and studied filmmaking in Tehran. His feature film debut A Time for Drunken Horses (00) won the Caméra d’Or at Cannes. His other features are Marooned in Iraq (02), Turtles Can Fly (04), Half Moon (06), No One Knows About Persian Cats (09). DRUNKEN HORSES & TURTLES are classics that should be seen by my cinephiles. Netflix has them. Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:30 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2258281/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2258281/ Winner of the most prestigious film award is slow, but brilliant. Another insightful study of women on the verge of a nervous breakdown from Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, Beyond the Hills exhibits the same remarkable formal control as his Palme d’Or–winning 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. Like that film, Beyond the Hills is a story about women living under an authoritarian regime: a remote Orthodox monastery in the Moldavian wilderness, where archaic beliefs still regulate the life of the community. Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:31 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1602620/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1602620/ Bring at least 1 box of Kleenex to this not to be missed film, especially if you are over 50. Both protagonists deserve the best of Oscar.<br/><br/>Precision, calculation, and refinement are the words that spring to mind when describing the work of Michael Haneke. But if his past work has been described by his critics as cool and clinical, Amour, which won Haneke his second Palme d’Or at Cannes, will surely put those feelings to rest. Never has this modern master been in such superb control as in this examination of a couple struggling with mortality — a subject that, in the hands of another filmmaker, could have veered toward sentimentality, cliché and bathos. Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:31 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2299842/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2299842/ In the new film by controversial Korean auteur Kim Ki-duk, a brutal man in the employ of a loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle when a mysterious woman appears claiming to be his long-lost mother. But, as his attachment to her grows, he begins to discover the gruesome and tragic secret that made her seek him out. He is far and away the best Korean filmmaker, as his The Isle (00), Address Unknown (01), Bad Guy (02), Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring 03, are all outstanding films.<br/>&quot;Kim’s intense, violent images — eels sliding down a staircase in the throes of imminent death, trails of blood on an empty street at dawn — hold primal significance, searing the retinas and generating a disturbing awe. The frightening beauty of Kim’s extreme storytelling colours each impeccably composed frame.&quot; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:31 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2358514/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2358514/ aka 4SOME a stupid rename for PSIFF???? Czech Jan Hrebejk, who brought us the amazing DIVIDED WE FALL now brings us a light hearted couples comedy. it is fun, and most of you will be entertained, some will find the themes perhaps a little unnerving.<br/><br/>Marital fidelity can wear you down, and Ondra (Hynek Čermák) and Vitek (Jiří Langmajer) are certainly suffering from a case of serious fatigue. Working side by side and living next door to each other, it doesn’t take long before these two long-married middle-aged pals start comparing sex notes, and it’s plain to see their latest scores have fallen far below what they would have hoped. Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:31 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2139903/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2139903/ Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:31 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2208272/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2208272/ Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:31 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2043616/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2043616/ Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:31 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2071441/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2071441/ Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:31 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276419/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276419/ This sumptuous historical drama from writer-director Nikolaj Arcel (screenwriter of the original version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) chronicles the scandalous love triangle between a queen (Alicia Vikander), her German doctor (Mads Mikkelsen), and the mad King of Denmark (Mikkel Følsgaard). Mikkelsen and Vikander are electrifying as the ill-starred lovers, and their palpable chemistry, combined with Arcel’s assured direction and the film’s fine art direction and costume design, create both a sweepingly romantic and subtly nuanced portrait of this infamous episode in Denmark’s history. At once intimate and epic, A Royal Affair is one of the finest, most well-crafted period dramas in recent memory. A grand period drama with a lusty, beating heart, A Royal Affair displays all the talents and charms of its star, Mads Mikkelsen. Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:31 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2380247/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2380247/ Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:31 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1754546/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1754546/ Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:31 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1638353/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1638353/ aka THE PATIENCE STONE, If those idiots burning and bombing American embassies over a trailer of a USA film saw this film from Afghanistan, they would go bananas. This was a very unflattering view of the Muslim world, yet they know nothing of it, so rallies of protest occur over something from the free world yet ignore their own films MAKES NO SENSE TO ME! <br/>A woman in an unnamed, war-torn Middle Eastern country delivers an engrossing, emotional monologue to her comatose husband, in novelist and filmmaker Atiq Rahimi's poetic and politically charged allegory based on his award-winning novel.<br/>With this beguiling work, Rahimi has given all faceless and speechless Muslim women an opportunity to share what is going on behind their veils and in their minds. Unable to respond, the woman’s husband has no opportunity to talk back and reassert his dominance. He must listen — listen as we do, intently, fascinated by this release of long-repressed emotion. The Patience Stone is a magnificent corrective to years of silence. Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:31 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2098628/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2098628/ Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:31 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1989712/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1989712/ Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:31 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2219514/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2219514/ Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:11:31 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1654829/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1654829/ Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:58:33 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1560747/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1560747/ This is an unpleasant film to watch, however its craftsmanship is of the highest order. If you are looking for a joyful cinematic experience, then skip this one. Even though I appreciate another genius effort from Paul Thomas Anderson (MAGNOLIA, BOOGIE NIGHTS, HARD EIGHT...) as well as Oscar performances from Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix the prolonged PSYCHOBABBLE almost sent me to the exit.<br/>Ken Turan: &quot;The Master&quot; takes some getting used to. This is a superbly crafted film that's at times intentionally opaque, as if its creator didn't want us to see all the way into its heart of darkness.<br/>It's a film bristling with vivid moments and unbeatable acting, but its interest is not in tidy narrative satisfactions but rather the excesses and extremes of human behavior, the interplay of troubled souls desperate to find their footing. Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:58:33 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276104/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276104/