Walk the Line (2005)

RecommendedUSA/GermanyFeature FilmDirector: James MangoldWriters: Gill Dennis, James Mangold, Johnny CashCinematographer: Phedon PapamichaelComposer: T-Bone BurnettCast: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Patrick, Shelby Lynne, Dallas Roberts, Dan John Miller, Larry BagbyBeautifully paced, exquisitely photographed, and featuring a pair of convincing and affecting performances, Mangold’s handsome film charts the rise and...

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Beeswax (2009)

RecommendedUSAFeature FilmWriter/Director: Andrew BujalskiCinematographer: Matthias GrunskyCast: Tilly Hatcher, Maggie Hatcher, Alex Karpovsky, Anne Dodge, Katy O'Connor, Christy Moore, Janet Pierson, D.J. Taitelbaum, Bob ByingtonBujalski’s beautifully observed third feature – more mature, but less charming than his previous efforts – paints a portrait of the lives of a pair of twin sisters, over a period of several days, fascinatingly examining...

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CFB's Greatest Movies by Country, Chapter 25: Israel / Palestine

Walk on Water (2004) Paradise Now (2005) Late Marriage (2001) Waltz with Bashir (2008) Blaumilch Canal (1969) Sallah (1964) Jellyfish (2007) Lemon Tree (2008) Beyond the Walls (1984) Sacred (1999) Divine Intervention (2002) The Band's Visit (2007) Summer of Aviya (1988) James' Journey to Jerusalem (2003) Operation Thunderbolt (1977) $9.99 (2008) For...

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My Father My Lord (2007)

RecommendedIsraelFeature FilmOriginal Title: חופשת קיץ‎Writer/ Director: David VolachCinematographer: Boaz Yehonatan YaacovComposers: Michael Hope, Martin TillmanCast: Assi Dayan, Ilan Griff, Sharon Hacohen-BarVolach’s affecting, sensual, and very promising debut contrasts the innate curiosity and pragmatism of a nine-year-old boy with the irrational, unnatural religious piety of his father, a contrast that eventually leads to tragedy, in this low...

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Delta (2008)

RecommendedHungary/GermanyFeature FilmDirector: Mundruczó KornélWriters: Bíró Yvette, Mundruczó KornélCinematographer: Erdély MátyásComposer: Lajkó FélixCast: Lajkó Félix, Tóth Orsolya, Monori Lili, Gáspár SándorMundruczó’s intensely sensual and often quite beautiful yet decidedly abstruse film follows the progress of Mihail, a bearded young man with an adolescent like face-covering hairstyle, as he returns to his family home after a long time away,...

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Extract (2009)

RecommendedUSAFeature FilmWriter/Director: Mike JudgeCinematographer: Tim SuhrstedtComposer: George S. ClintonCast: Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis, Kristen Wiig, Ben Affleck, J.K. Simmons, Clifton Collins Jr., Dustin Milligan, David Koechner, Beth Grant, T.J. Miller, Javier Gutiérrez, Lidia Porto, Gene SimmonsWhilst looking to sell his food extract business, which is being sued by one of its employees, who lost a testicle in a workplace accident, Joel...

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Katyń (2007)

RecommendedPolandFeature FilmDirector: Andrzej WajdaWriters: Przemyslaw Nowakowski, Wladyslaw Pasikowski, Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej MularczykCinematographer: Pawel EdelmanComposer: Krzysztof PendereckiCast: Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski, Danuta Stenka, Jan Englert, Magdalena Cielecka, Agnieszka Glinska, Pawel Malaszynski, Maja Komorowska, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Antoni Pawlicki, Agnieszka Kawiorska, Sergey GarmashWajda’s unsparing, upsetting,...

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Wonder Boys (2000)

RecommendedUSA/Germany/Japan/UKFeature FilmDirector: Curtis HansonWriters: Steve Kloves, Michael ChabonCinematographer: Dante SpinottiComposer: Christopher YoungCast: Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Robert Downey Jr., Katie Holmes, Rip Torn, Richard Knox, Jane Adams, Michael Cavadias, Richard ThomasAfter his wife leaves him, Grady Tripp, a perma-stoned middle-aged English professor, learns that his married girlfriend is pregnant,...

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Baarìa (2009)

Cautiously RecommendedItaly/FranceFeature FilmWriter/Director: Giuseppe TornatoreCinematographer: Enrico LucidiComposer: Ennio MorriconeCast: Francesco Scianna, Margareth Madè, Nicole Grimaudo, Ángela Molina, Lina Sastri, Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone, Enrico Lo Verso, Michele PlacidoThough generally well-made and reasonably diverting, Tornatore’s epic account of a Sicilian boy’s life, from his impoverished childhood in Mussolini’s fascist...

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Bleeder (1999)

Highly RecommendedDenmarkFeature FilmWriter/ Director: Nicolas Winding RefnCinematographer: Morten SøborgComposer: Peter PeterCast: Kim Bodnia, Mads Mikkelsen, Zlatko Buric, Liv Corfixen, Levino Jensen, Rikke Louise AnderssonRefn’s painfully visceral yet thought-provoking and well observed examination of male insecurities and anxieties – taking in violence, racism, cinephilia, and familial responsibility – vividly paints a portrait of the intertwining...

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Slither (2006)

RecommendedUSA/CanadaFeature FilmWriter/Director: James GunnCinematographer: Gregory MiddletonComposer: Tyler BatesCast: Elizabeth Banks, Nathan Fillion, Michael Rooker, Gregg Henry, Tania Saulnier, Jenna Fischer, Brenda James, Don Thompson, Patrick McAreavyWhen a group of parasitic extra-terrestrial slugs invade a small town, turning its residents into a pack of flesh eating zombies, the town’s chief of police, an attractive high school teacher,...

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Frozen River (2008)

RecommendedUSAFeature FilmWriter/Director: Courtney HuntCinematographer: Reed Dawson MoranoComposers: Peter Golub, Shahzad Ali IsmailyCast: Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott, Michael O'Keefe, Mark Boone Junior, James Reilly, Jay Klaitz When her husband disappears with the money to pay for their new double width trailer, Ray, a long suffering mother of two, desperate to provide for her children as Christmas rapidly approaches, stumbles into...

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Encounters at the End of the World (2007)

RecommendedUSAFeature DocumentaryWriter/Director: Werner HerzogCinematographer: Peter ZeitlingerComposers: Henry Kaiser, David Lindley In this idiosyncratic documentary, Werner Herzog travels to Antarctica to photograph the strange creatures that live there – not the least of which being the scientists, adventurers, and dreamers who make a home of such an inhospitable environment – combining analytical voiceover, interview footage, and dreamy, beautifully...

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Johnny Mad Dog (2008)

RecommendedFranceFeature FilmDirector: Jean-Stéphane SauvaireWriters: Jacques Fieschi, Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, Emmanuel DongalaCinematographer: Marc KoninckxComposer: Jackson Tennesse FourgeaudCast: Christopher Minie, Daisy Victoria Vandy, Dagbeh Tweh, Barry Chernoh, Mohammed Sesay, Joseph Duo Sauvaire’s disturbing and distinctly upsetting look at the use of child soldiers in an unnamed African civil war (implicitly Liberia) follows the bloody progress...

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Our Friends in the North (1996)

Highly RecommendedUKTelevision Mini-SeriesDirectors: Simon Cellan Jones, Pedr James, Stuart UrbanWriter: Peter FlanneryCinematographers: John Daly, John Kenway, Simon KossoffComposer: Colin TownsCast: Christopher Eccleston, Gina McKee, Mark Strong, Daniel Craig, Peter Vaughan, David Bradley, Freda Dowie, Alun Armstrong, Malcolm McDowell Set over a period of 31 years, Peter Flannery’s masterful, almost unbearably moving mini-series charts the progress...

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Behind the Sun (2001)

RecommendedBrazil/FranceFeature FilmOriginal Title: Abril DespedaçadoDirector: Walter SallesWriters: Karim Ainouz, Sérgio Machado, Walter Salles, João Moreira Salles, Daniela Thomas, Ismail KadareCinematographer: Walter CarvalhoComposers: Ed Cortês, Antonio Pinto, Beto VillaresCast: Rodrigo Santoro, Ravi Ramos Lacerda, José Dumont, Rita Assemany, Flavia Marco Antonio, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Everaldo De Souza Pontes, Caio Junqueira, Servílio de...

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A Way of Life (2004)

RecommendedUKFeature FilmWriter/Director: Amma AsanteCinematographer: Ian WilsonComposer: David GrayCast: Stephanie James, Gary Sheppeard, Nathan Jones, Dean Wong, Sara Gregory, Oliver Haden, Brenda Blethyn A single, teenaged mother, who lives alone with her unhealthy baby, struggling to get by on insufficient benefits, becomes paranoid about her Turkish neighbour, when she witnesses several conversations between him and her social worker, eventually...

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King Kong (2005)

Best AvoidedUSA/Germany/New ZealandFeature FilmDirector: Peter JacksonWriters: Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Merian C. Cooper, Edgar WallaceCinematographer: Andrew LesnieComposer: James Newton HowardCast: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks, Andy Serkis, Evan Parke, Jamie Bell Occasional exhilarating sequences punctuate many more interminably long and dull ones, in Jackson’s bloated, action heavy remake...

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Blackboards (2000)

RecommendedIran/Italy/JapanFeature FilmOriginal Title: تخته سیاهDirector: Samira MakhmalbafWriters: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Samira MakhmalbafCinematographer: Ebrahim GhaforiComposer: Mohammad Reza DarvishiCast: Said Mohamadi, Behnaz Jafari, Bahman Ghobadi, Mohamad Karim Rahmati, Rafat Moradi, Mayas Rostami In Makhmalbaf’s gripping, gently funny parable, a pair of teachers, with blackboards strapped to their backs, whose school has just been bombed out,...

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Before Sunset (2004)

Highly RecommendedUSAFeature FilmDirector: Richard LinklaterWriters: Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater, Kim KrizanCinematographer: Lee DanielCast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy In this affecting, beautifully observed sequel, the romantic, optimistic young protagonists of Linklater’s Before Sunrise (1995) meet up again after nine years – thinner and more pragmatic, cynical, and political – and discuss their fears, regrets, and few remaining hopes,...

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Before Sunrise (1995)

Highly RecommendedUSA/AustriaFeature FilmDirector: Richard LinklaterWriters: Kim Krizan, Richard LinklaterCinematographer: Lee DanielComposer: Fred FrithCast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy On his last day in Europe, an American in his early twenties meets a beautiful French girl on a train, and convinces her to spend the night wandering the streets of Vienna with him before his early morning flight home, talking about everything and nothing, in Linklater’s...

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V for Vendetta (2005)

Not RecommendedUSA/UK/GermanyFeature FilmDirector: James McTeigueWriters: The Wachowski Brothers, David LloydCinematographer: Adrian BiddleComposer: Dario MarianelliCast: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, John Hurt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Rupert Graves, Roger Allam, Ben Miles Living in a fascistic, repressive Britain of the near future, a lone vigilante with a Guy Fawkes fetish attempts to spark a revolution using bombs, murder,...

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Karlovy Vary, 2010

Grand Prix – Crystal GlobeThe Mosquito Net (2010) Special Jury PrizeKooky (2010) Best DirectorRajko Grlić, Just Between Us (2010) Best ActressAnaïs Demoustier, Sweet Evil (2009) Best ActorMateusz Kościukiewicz & Filip Garbacz, Mother Teresa of Cats (2010) Special MentionAnother Sky (2010)There Are Things You Don’t Know (2010) In Competition Another Sky (2010) Brother & Sister (2009) Diago (2010) Hitler in Hollywood (2010) Just Between Us (2010) Kooky (2010) The Mosquito Net (2010) Mother Teresa of Cats (2010) Mourning for...

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Shanghai Dreams (2005)

RecommendedChinaFeature FilmOriginal Title: 青红Writer/Director: Wang XiaoshuaiCinematographer: Wu DiCast: Gao Yuanyuan, Yao Anlian, Tang Yang, Li Bin, Wang Xueyang, Dai Wenyan, Lin Yuan, Qin Hao, Wang Xiaofen, You Fangming Qinghong, the teenaged daughter of a Guizhou factory worker, who dreams of one day returning to his native Shanghai, struggles to find her own identity under the watch of her domineering father, in Wang’s heartfelt, understated,...

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Winter in Wartime (2008)

Cautiously RecommendedThe Netherlands/BelgiumFeature FilmOriginal Title: OorlogswinterDirector: Martin KoolhovenWriters: Mieke de Jong, Martin Koolhoven, Paul Jan Nelissen, Jan TerlouwCinematographer: Guido van GennepComposer: Pino DonaggioCast: Martijn Lakemeier, Yorick van Wageningen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Raymond Thiry, Melody Klaver In Koolhoven’s well crafted and generally affecting though vaguely sentimental coming of age drama cum Boy’s Own...

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Tony (2009)

RecommendedUKFeature FilmWriter/Director: Gerard JohnsonCinematographer: David HiggsComposers: The TheCast: Peter Ferdinando Gerard Johnson presents a strangely compassionate, gently blackly comic, and utterly convincing portrait of Tony, a London tower block dwelling perma-unemployed man with a bowl cut hairstyle, large glasses, and a ‘70s ‘tache, who spends his time watching rubbish ‘80s action films, haggling with eastern European prostitutes,...

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XXY (2007)

RecommendedArgentina/France/SpainFeature FilmDirector: Lucía PuenzoWriters: Lucía Puenzo, Sergio BizzioCinematographer: Natasha BraierComposers: Andrés Goldstein, Daniel TarrabCast: Inés Efron, Martín Piroyansky, Ricardo Darín, Valeria Bertuccelli, Germán Palacios, Carolina Pelleritti, Luciano Nóbile Whilst her parents discuss her future with an Argentinian surgeon, Alex, an intersex fifteen-year-old from rural Uruguay, raised as a girl, who has...

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Lion's Den (2008)

Highly RecommendedArgentina/Brazil/Spain/South KoreaFeature FilmOriginal Title: LeoneraDirector: Pablo TraperoWriters: Alejandro Fadel, Martín Mauregui, Santiago Mitre, Pablo TraperoCinematographer: Guillermo NietoCast: Martina Gusman, Elli Medeiros, Rodrigo Santoro, Laura García, Tomás Plotinsky, Leonardo Sauma Trapero’s beautifully human and righteously (though subtly) angry film gently paints a portrait of a twenty-something student, accused of...

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Birth (2004)

Highly RecommendedUSA/UK/CanadaFeature FilmDirector: Jonathan GlazerWriters: Milo Addica, Jean-Claude Carrière, Jonathan GlazerCinematographer: Harris SavidesComposer: Alexandre DesplatCast: Nicole Kidman, Cameron Bright, Danny Huston, Lauren Bacall, Alison Elliott, Arliss Howard, Michael Desautels, Anne Heche, Peter Stormare, Ted Levine, Cara Seymour In Glazer’s stylish, thought provoking, and beautifully acted psychological thriller-cum-existential...

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American Movie (1999)

RecommendedUSAFeature DocumentaryDirector: Chris SmithCinematographers: Chris Smith, Sarah PriceComposer: Mike SchankFeaturing: Mark Borchardt, Mike Schank, Monica Borchardt, Bill Borchardt Following him for a period of three years, Smith provides a fascinating, non-judgmental portrait of a Milwaukee based independent film-maker, detailing his attempts to find funding and willing participants for two of his productions, Coven and Northwestern, and...

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Cherrybomb (2009)

Not RecommendedUK/IrelandFeature FilmDirectors: Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn LeyburnWriter: Daragh CarvilleCinematographer: Damien ElliottComposer: Stephen HiltonCast: Rupert Grint, Robert Sheehan, Kimberley Nixon, James Nesbitt, Lalor Roddy Two 16-year-old friends vie for the attentions of a beautiful girl, who has just returned from her mother’s London home to live her lecherous father, by out bad-boying each other with drug-fuelled acts of violence,...

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Shutter Island (2010)

RecommendedUSAFeature FilmDirector: Martin ScorseseWriters: Laeta Kalogridis, Dennis LehaneCinematographer: Robert RichardsonCast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow, Michelle Williams, Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Jackie Earle Haley, Ted Levine, John Carroll Lynch, Elias KoteasDiCaprio is painfully convincing in the central role of a U.S. Marshall sent to Shutter Island – a maximum security prison hospital, housing...

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The Silence (2010)

RecommendedUKTelevision Mini-SeriesDirector: Dearbhla WalshWriter: Fiona SeresCinematographer: Owen McPolinComposer: John LunnCast: Genevieve Barr, Douglas Henshall, Dervla Kirwan, Harry Ferrier, Gina McKee, Hugh Bonneville, Rod Hallett, Mark Stobbart, Richie Campbell, Rebecca Oldfield, Del Synnott, Nick Nevern, Tom Kane, David WestheadAn eighteen-year-old girl, who has recently had a cochlear implant, witnesses the murder of a police officer whilst...

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The Counterfeiters (2007)

RecommendedAustria/GermanyFeature FilmOriginal Title: Die FälscherDirector: Stefan RuzowitzkyWriters: Stefan Ruzowitzky, Adolf BurgerCinematographer: Benedict NeuenfelsComposer: Marius RuhlandCast: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach, August Zirner, Veit Stübner, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Andreas Schmidt, Tilo PrücknerRuzowitzky’s painfully human adaptation of Adolf Burger’s autobiographical book, featuring an affectingly nuanced...

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Is Anybody There? (2008)

Cautiously RecommendedUK/USAFeature FilmDirector: John CrowleyWriter: Peter HarnessCinematographer: Rob HardyComposer: Joby TalbotCast: Michael Caine, Bill Milner, Anne-Marie Duff, David Morrissey, Linzey CockerA friendless soon-to-be-eleven-year-old boy with an obsessive interest in the supernatural forms an unlikely friendship with a suicidal retired magician, who lives in his parents’ nursing home, in this mildly diverting '80s-set film, which...

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Chuck & Buck (2000)

RecommendedUSAFeature FilmDirector: Miguel ArtetaWriter: Mike WhiteCinematographer: Chuy ChávezComposers: Smokey Hormel, Tony Maxwell, Joey WaronkerCast: Mike White, Chris Weitz, Lupe Ontiveros, Beth Colt, Paul Weitz, Maya RudolphAfter his mother dies, leaving him all alone, Buck, a child-like twenty-something from the sticks, moves to Los Angeles and begins to stalk his childhood best friend – now a successful music executive – and, when his advances...

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Coraline (2009)

RecommendedUSAAnimated Feature FilmDirector: Henry SelickWriters: Henry Selick, Neil GaimanCinematographer: Pete KozachikComposer: Bruno CoulaisCast: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Keith David, John Hodgman, Robert Bailey Jr., Ian McShaneIn Selick’s transporting, visually arresting, and surprisingly scary adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s book, a young girl with blue hair, who has just moved into a new country home with her...

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Youth in Revolt (2009)

RecommendedUSAFeature FilmDirector: Miguel ArtetaWriters: Gustin Nash, C.D. PayneCinematographers: Chuy ChávezComposer: John SwihartCast: Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Jean Smart, Zach Galifianakis, Erik Knudsen, Adhir Kalyan, Steve Buscemi, Fred Willard, Ari Graynor, Ray Liotta, Justin Long, Rooney Mara, Jade Fusco, M. Emmet Walsh, Mary Kay Place, Jonathan Bradford WrightArteta’s thoroughly unpredictable and generally very funny if occasionally...

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Unmade Beds (2009)

Highly RecommendedUKFeature FilmDirector: Alexis Dos SantosWriters: Alexis Dos Santos, Marianela MaldonadoCinematographer: Jakob IhreCast: Déborah François, Fernando Tielve, Michiel Huisman, Iddo Goldberg, Richard Lintern, Katia Winter, Alexis Dos SantosWith its must-have soundtrack, touching performances, and striking photography, Dos Santos’s beautiful, sensual second feature delicately paints a portrait of two twenty-something Europeans living...

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Play (1970)

Cautiously RecommendedUKShort FilmDirector: Sally PotterComposer: Sally Potter (2009)Capturing a group of children playing in the street, as they run, jump, and hop from one screen to the next, Potter’s playful double screen short film uses two adjacently placed cameras, one loaded with colour film and showing a balanced frame, and the other with black and white, capturing a slightly skew-whiff image. Iain.St...

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Inland Empire (2006)

Cautiously RecommendedFrance/Poland/USAFeature FilmWriter/Director: David LynchCinematographer: David LynchCast: Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Justin Theroux, Karolina Gruszka, Jan Hencz, Krzysztof Majchrzak, Grace Zabriskie, Harry Dean StantonLynch’s three-hour long shot-on-digital-video curio – an episodic work with scenes and sequences ranging from the bland to the confounding to the downright brilliant (and everything in-between) – details (I think,...

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Brief Crossing (2001)

RecommendedFranceFeature FilmOriginal Title: Brève traverséeWriter/Director: Catherine BreillatCinematographer: Eric GautierComposer: Marc FilipiCast: Sarah Pratt, Gilles GuillainOn an overnight cross-channel ferry ride, a thirtyish English woman and a 16-year-old French boy, both travelling alone, strike up a conversation in the ship’s cafeteria, which leads – as most of her films eventually do – to the bedroom, where the unlikely couple talk at...

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Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940)

RecommendedUKFeature FilmDirector: Walter FordeWriters: Marriott Edgar, J.O.C. Orton, Ralph Smart, Brandon ThomasCinematographer: Arthur CrabtreeComposer: Louis LevyCast: Arthur Askey, Richard (Stinker) Murdoch, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott, J.H. Roberts, Felix Aylmer, Wally Patch, Phyllis Calvert, Jeanne de CasalisArthur, Stinker, and Albert, facing being sent down from Oxford after a series of drunken crimes and misdemeanours, concoct a plan...

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Breaking Bad: Season 3 (2010)

USATelevision SeriesCreator: Vince GilliganCast: Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul, Dean Norris, RJ Mitte, Betsy Brandt, Bob Odenkirk, Giancarlo Esposito, Steven Michael Quezada, Jonathan BanksWhilst his cancer may be in remission, Walt, the high school chemistry teacher turned crystal methamphetamine manufacturer, now in business with the decidedly clinical Gus, finds his health threatened by vicious Mexican gangsters intent upon vengeance,...

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Talk to Her (2002)

Highly RecommendedSpainFeature FilmOriginal Title: Hable con ellaWriter/Director: Pedro AlmodóvarCinematographer: Javier AguirresarobeComposer: Alberto IglesiasCast: Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Rosario Flores, Mariola Fuentes, Geraldine Chaplin, Fele Martínez, Paz VegaWhilst visiting his comatose bullfighter girlfriend, a decidedly sensitive Argentinian travel writer forms an unlikely friendship with a male nurse, which continues...

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Dive (2010)

Highly RecommendedUKTelevision FilmDirector: Dominic SavageWriters: Dominic Savage, Simon StephensCinematographer: Danny CohenCast: Aisling Loftus, Jack O'Connell, Gina McKee, Ewen Bremner, Eddie Marsan, Kate Dickie, Joseph Mawle, Chanel CresswellSavage’s lyrical, sensual, and deeply affecting two-part drama portrays a budding romance between a pair of 15-year-olds in a perma-grey-skyed Skegness – one an Olympic diving hopeful with big dreams, and...

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Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)

Essential ViewingJapanFeature FilmOriginal Title: 雨月物語Director: Mizoguchi KenjiWriters: Yoda Yoshikata, Kawaguchi Matsutarō, Tsuji Kyūchi, Ueda AkinariCinematographer: Miyagawa KazuoComposers: Hayasaka Fumio, Mochizuki Tamekichi, Saitō IchirōCast: Mori Masayuki, Kyō Machiko, Tanaka Kinuyo, Ozawa Sakae, Sawamura Ikio, Mito Mitsuko, Mōri KikueIn Mizoguchi’s beautifully photographed and disquietingly scored supernatural tale, set in 16th century feudal...

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Autobus (1991)

RecommendedFranceFeature FilmOriginal Title: Aux yeux du mondeWriter/Director: Eric RochantCinematographer: Pierre NovionComposer: Gérard TorikianCast: Yvan Attal, Kristin Scott Thomas, Marc Berman, Charlotte GainsbourgIn Rochant’s strangely, melancholically charming picaresque tale, an unemployed 22-year-old provincial male, hopelessly in love with an apprentice hairdresser who lives a few hundred miles away, hijacks a bus full of school children...

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CFB's Top 20 Obscure Films of 1994 (2010)

Vive l’Amour (1994) Faust (1994) Lamerica (1994) Sátántangó (1994) 71 Fragments of a Chronology Of Chance (1994) End (1994) Jeanne la Pucelle: The Prisons (1994) In the Heat of the Sun (1994) Rampo (1994) Widow’s Peak (1994) Ladybird Ladybird (1994) Jeanne la Pucelle: The Battles (1994) That’s Entertainment! III (1994) The Monk and the Fish (1994) Bandit Queen (1994) The Corridor (1994) Trevor (1994) The Rice...

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