L' Enfer (2005)

L' Enfer (Danis Tanovic, 2005) English Title: Hell Krzysztof Kieslowski's premature death gave us a treasure trove of great films ( ...

Lights in the Dusk (2006)

Lights in the Dusk (Aki Kaurismäki, 2006) Finnish Title: Laitakaupungin valot It's a tired plot; similar to the stories so often told in...

TMNT (2007)

TMNT (Kevin Munroe, 2007) When the fast food restaurants peddling Colonel Sander's finger lickin' good fried chicken changed their n...

Bridge to Terabithia (2007)

Bridge to Terabithia (Gabor Csupo, 2007) Gabor Csupo's first venture to live action entertainment turns out to be quite a successful gam...

Forgotten Silver (1995)

Forgotten Silver (Costa Botes & Peter Jackson, 1995) If we are to believe Costa Botes, Peter Jackson and their 1995 Forgotten Silver , m...

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F. W. Murnau, 1927) 1927 is the year wherein great filmmakers made landmark films: Fritz Lang released Metrop...

Bad Lieutenant (1992)

Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara, 1992) Director Abel Ferrara doesn't afford Harvey Keitel's character a name. He is merely called the l...

Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors (2000)

Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors (Hong Sang-soo, 2000) Korean Title: Oh! Soo-jung I remember my first time, my metaphorical devirginiza...

Compound (2006)

Compound (Will Fredo, 2006) Loosely connecting the sequences are seveal chemical compounds. By the end of the film, we learn that these comp...

Feathers in the Wind (2004)

Feathers in the Wind (Song Il-gon, 2004) Korean Title: Git It all started with a promise similar to the one made in the end of Richard Linkl...

Flower Island (2001)

Flower Island (Song Il-gon, 2001) Korean Title: Ggot seom Other than Yu-jin (Lim Yu-jin), who we first meet narrating how she got punished b...

The Good Shepherd (2006)

The Good Shepherd (Robert De Niro, 2006) Robert de Niro's The Good Shepherd is indulgently long. Clocking at over two hours and a half,...

300 (2007)

300 (Zack Snyder, 2007) My first exposure to violent art is a painting done by Juan Luna called Spoliarium . It's a painting that is sho...

Painted Skin (1993)

Painted Skin (King Hu, 1993) Mandarin Title: Hua pi zhi yinyang fawang King Hu has made great films in his lifetime; these films defined the...

Dreamgirls (2006)

Dreamgirls (Bill Condon, 2006) I've heard the complaints, that there's barely anything cinematic or worthwhile with the film adaptat...

Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)

Letters From Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood, 2006) I was quite surprised to have immensely liked Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima . I...