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Top 25 Films of the 1990s
25. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Lynch, USA, 1992) 24. Bitter Moon (Polanski, France/UK, 1992) 23. Audition (Miike, Japan, 1999) 22. The Thin Red Line (Malick, USA/Australia, 1998) 21. Ravenous...
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Top 100 Films of the Decade (2000-2009)
This list represents the culmination of a decade’s worth of avid movie watching – and at least a full year of watching and re-watching hundreds of movies specifically for the purpose of making this...
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CIFF 2011 – Twenty Two Most Wanted!
With the start of the Chicago International Film Festival only six weeks away, it’s time for my annual wish list of films I’d most like to see turn up there. This is a combination of movies that have...
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A Hong Kong Cinema Primer, pt. 2
A continuation of my list of essential Hong Kong movies. This part of the list includes titles released between 1986 and the present. A Better Tomorrow (Woo, 1986) With this 1986 action movie...
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A Blu-ray With Principle
Life Without Principle, the new film from Hong Kong genre specialist Johnnie To, received its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival last fall. Shortly thereafter, U.S. distribution rights were...
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CIFF 2012: Twenty Most Wanted!
It’s time for my annual wish list of movies that I hope will turn up at the Chicago International Film Festival in October. Even if you’re not a Chicagoan, I hope you will find this to be a handy guide...
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CIFF ’13: 13 Most Wanted
Here are a baker’s dozen of the titles I’d most like to see turn up at the Chicago International Film Festival in October. I actually compiled this list before the release a couple weeks ago of CIFF’s...
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Top 100 Films of the Decade, pt. 4 (#25 – #1): A Contest
Here is the entire list of my 100 favorite movies of the past five years. I have provided not only images but also capsule reviews for the top 25, some of which I wrote exclusively for this post. Don’t...
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The 50 Best Living Film Directors
Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Abbas Kiarostami and Juliette Binoche I recently put together a highly subjective list of what I consider to be the 50 best living film directors. Below you will find my top ten (with...
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The Organization of Space in The Conjuring 2, Three and Green Room
It’s a bit too long and I never again want to see a horror movie that climaxes with “demonologists” wielding crucifixes and reciting bible verses in Latin but I still enjoyed the hell out of The...
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Johnnie To’s THE MISSION at Doc Films
I reviewed Johnnie To’s The Mission Cine-File Chicago. It screens Doc Films on 35mm this Tuesday. Johnnie To’s THE MISSION (Hong Kong Revival)Doc Films (University of Chicago) — Tuesday, 7pm Hong...
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My Top 100 Films of the Decade
Below is a list of my 100 favorite feature films of the decade. I’ve linked to my original reviews where applicable and added some new commentary not available elsewhere. The top 25 are presented in...
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