This list is alphabetical by title. Three of the films are included in my list of the 100 greatest films; these are double asterisked. Eight others are included in other 100-best lists of mine (100 Greatest Films from Germany & Scandinavia, 100 Greatest English-Language Films, 100 Greatest Asian Films, and the 100 Best French list […]
Daily Archives: October 7, 2007
Beautifully written (along with Shadmehr Rastin), directed and edited by Jafar Panahi, Offside is a very funny sports comedy that builds to a heart-walloping finish, one of cinema’s most brilliant moments of liberation and robust freedom: young women, who had been prevented from viewing the game in the Tehran stadium, participating in a street celebration […]
British writer-director Michael J. Bassett’s creepy, inflated Deathwatch gives the heart a few real jumps before dissolving into its foggy resolution. It follows a fearful, stressed-out World War I British company on the western front as an unseen enemy, possibly a supernatural force, takes it down soldier by soldier, even turning them murderously against one […]
Dennis Grunes 