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Best (and worst) of 2011

10 films Edit list

Keith Uhlich, Staff Film writer

1. Certified Copy Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami has created his fair share of masterpieces, but…

  • Evil Does Not Exist
  • The Beast
  • In a Violent Nature
  • Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
  • Last Summer

Done/Undone: Ten for 2024

10 films Edit list

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A Ten, not The Ten

1. Evil Does Not Exist (Aku wa sonzai shinai) 2. The…

  • 4:44 Last Day on Earth
  • Carnage
  • Goodbye First Love
  • The Kid with a Bike
  • The Loneliest Planet

NYFF 2011

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4:44: Last Day on Earth It’s a Manhattan kind of apocalypse in Abel Ferrara’s low-rent last-day-on-earth melodrama. Lower East-siders Cisco…

  • Wild Grass
  • The Ghost Writer
  • Step Up 3D
  • Boxing Gym
  • Shutter Island

Best (and worst) of 2010

11 films Edit list

Keith Uhlich, film writer

THE BEST

1. Wild Grass Alain Resnais’s stalker romance brilliantly confounds at every turn. The wry…

  • The New World
  • Inland Empire
  • Miami Vice
  • Youth Without Youth
  • Memoria

Sight & Sound: The Greatest Films of All Time

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[Published on (All (Parentheses))]

I was invited to contribute to Sight & Sound’s “The Greatest Films of All Time” poll earlier…

  • A Tale of Winter
  • The Green Ray
  • The Bakery Girl of Monceau
  • Suzanne’s Career
  • La Collectionneuse

He's got the touch

9 films Edit list

Lincoln Center’s tribute to nouvelle vague director Eric Rohmer surveys a master of words (and images). By Keith Uhlich

Imagine…

  • Like You Know It All
  • Persecution

Best of "Film Comment Selects"

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Like You Know It All Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo’s latest follows a movie director (of course) as he gets into…

  • The Limits of Control
  • Night and Day
  • California Dreamin'
  • Two Lovers
  • My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

The best (and worst) of 2009

11 films Edit list

THE BEST

Keith Uhlich, film writer

1 The Limits of Control Jim Jarmusch sends a mystery man on a leisurely…

  • What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
  • It's Not Just You, Murray!
  • Who's That Knocking at My Door
  • The Big Shave
  • Street Scenes 1970

Complete: Martin Scorsese

51 films Edit list

[Published 03/02/2021, (All (Parentheses))]

Last Bastion

It took me until middle age to love Scorsese. He was so excessively marketed…

  • Silent Running
  • Magnum Force
  • Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
  • The Deer Hunter
  • Heaven's Gate

Complete: Michael Cimino

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[Published on (All (Parentheses)), 03/02/2021]

Queer Duck

You’re lucky to make one great movie. Michael Cimino has made two. Three,…

  • Rebels of the Neon God
  • Vive L'Amour
  • The River
  • The Hole
  • What Time Is It There?

Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan's art-house auteur

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Immerse yourself in the films of a master. By Keith Uhlich

The cinema of Malaysia-born, Taiwan-based director Tsai Ming-liang can…

  • Malmkrog
  • Atarrabi & Mikelats

New Pollution #3: NYFF Guys Finish Last

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[Also published on (All (Parentheses)) and The Completist]

More on the mostly-virtual, now-concluded New York Film Festival, Ed. 58, focus…