“Approximately and exactly.”
— Parabatial Kanhaiyalal ‘P.K.’ Dubey (Vijay Raaz) from Monsoon Wedding (2001)

Great Television Shows

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If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (dir. Mary Bronstein)
Sound of Falling (In die Sonne Schauen) (dir. Mascha Schilinski)
A Little Prayer (dir. Angus MacLachlan)
Die My Love (dir. Lynne Ramsay)
Sharp Corner (dir. Jason Buxton)
Bring Her Back (dir. Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou)
The Love That Remains (Ástin Sem Eftir Er) (dir. Hlynur Pálmason)
One Battle After Another (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Ugly Stepsister (Den Stygge Stesøsteren) (dir. Emilie Blichfeldt)
The Plague (dir. Charlie Polinger)

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HONOURABLE SELECTION (+3)

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Weapons (dir. Zach Cregger)
Reflection in a Dead Diamond (Reflet dans un Diamant Mort)
(dir. Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet)
Black Bag / Presence (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
Sentimental Value (Affeksjonsverdi) (dir. Joachim Trier)
Caught by the Tides (Feng Liu Yi Dai) (dir. Jia Zhang-ke)
Dangerous Animals (dir. Sean Byrne)
The Shrouds (dir. David Cronenberg)
Henry Johnson (dir. David Mamet)
Roofman (dir. Derek Cianfrance)
Eddington (dir. Ari Aster)

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The Secret Agent (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Caught Stealing (dir. Darren Aronofsky)
The Rule of Jenny Pen (dir. James Ashcroft)
Lurker (dir. Alex Russell)
The Ice Tower (La Tour de Glace) (dir. Lucile Hadžihalilović)
Honey Bunch (dir. Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer)
No Other Choice (Eojjeolsuga Eobsda) (dir. Park Chan-wook)
A Private Life (Vie Privée) (dir. Rebecca Zlotowski)
Bugonia (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)
That They May Face The Rising Sun (dir. Pat Collins)

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MORE MOVIES (35-54)

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THE SUBSTANCE (dir. Coralie Fargeat)
What Remains: The Confession of a Serial Killer (dir. Ran Huang)
Armand (dir. Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel)
Club Zero (dir. Jessica Hausner)
Snack Shack (dir. Adam Rehmeier)
Mars Express (dir. Jérémie Périn)
The Coffee Table (dir. Caye Casas)
Janet Planet (dir. Annie Baker)
Music (dir. Angela Schanelec)
The Apprentice (dir. Ali Abbasi)

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HONOURABLE SELECTIONS (+7)

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Strange Darling – A Thriller in 6 Chapters (dir. J.T. Mollner)
Memoirs of a Snail (dir. Adam Elliot)
Eephus (dir. Carson Lund)
Small Things Like These (dir. Tim Mielants)
The Brutalist (In VistaVision 70mm) (dir. Brady Corbet)
His Three Daughters (dir. Azazel Jacobs)
Oddity (dir. Damian Mc Carthy)
Hard Truths (dir. Mike Leigh)
Better Man (dir. Michael Gracey)
Daddio (dir. Christy Hall)
CONTINUE READING ►

The Elegance and Dread of an Equation

Nawal Marwan is dead. She is survived by her twin children Jeanne and Simon, both in their late twenties and living in Montreal. They sit before the notary Jean Lebel (Rémy Girard) who had employed Nawal (Lubna Azabal) as his secretary for years. He has always considered them all to be a part of his family. The room is still and unbearably quiet. As he reads Nawal’s final will and testament aloud, Jeanne (Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin) and Simon (Maxim Gaudette) are disturbed by their mother’s final request. She wants to be buried naked facing the ground without a headstone to identify her. Where did this self-loathing come from? Jeanne keeps her composure and listens. Simon goes berserk over how cold and insane their mother was. He will not respect her wishes.

Professionally bound to secrecy about Nawal’s mysterious past, Jean emphasizes how grave this situation is: “Childhood is a knife stuck in the back of your throat. It cannot be easily removed.” Nawal will only accept a dignified burial on the condition that Jeanne and Simon accomplish a mission to redeem her. Two sealed letters lie on the notary’s desk. One is addressed to their estranged father whom they’ve thought was dead. The other one is news, a long-lost brother who was named “Nihad of May”. Their task is to find and then deliver their letters to them. Simon refuses to participate. After some soul-searching, Jeanne sets off to discover what regrets her mother had kept silent.

We cross back and forth between the divide of Jeanne’s daunting search and Nawal’s past. It is striking how much the two women resemble one another. Their determination and resolve is matched by their ethereal, solemn beauty. Their paths are separated only by decades as Jeanne follows her mother’s footprints in Lebanon from the North to the horrors in the South. For every startling chapter that closes on Nawal’s life, Jeanne comes much closer to solving the mystery. The question of ever figuring it out turns into another one supplemented by a great reluctance akin to rolling over a rock to expose the maggots underneath.

CONTINUE READING ►

Moon (dir. Duncan Jones)
Goodbye Solo (dir. Ramin Bahrani)
(500) Days of Summer (dir. Marc Webb)
Nightwatching (dir. Peter Greenaway)
The Hurt Locker (dir. Kathryn Bigelow)

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Coraline (dir. Henry Selick)
Gomorrah (dir. Matteo Garrone)
Polytechnique (dir. Denis Villeneuve)
Revanche (dir. Götz Spielmann)
Up (dir. Pete Docter and Bob Peterson)

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Tokyo Sonata (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Knowing (dir. Alex Proyas)
O’ Horten (dir. Bent Hamer)
Lymelife (As Seen at the TIFF 2008, dir. Derick Martini)
Drag Me To Hell (dir. Sam Raimi)

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American Psycho (dir. Mary Harron)
You Can Count On Me (dir. Kenneth Lonergan)
Werckmeister Harmonies (dir. Béla Tarr)
Panic (dir. Henry Bromell)
The Terrorist (dir. Santosh Sivan)
Yi Yi (dir. Edward Yang)
Shadow of the Vampire (dir. E. Elias Merhige)
Quills (dir. Philip Kaufman)
Girl on the Bridge (dir. Patrice Leconte)
Requiem for a Dream (dir. Darren Aronofsky)
Almost Famous (dir. Cameron Crowe)
Traffic (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
Sexy Beast (dir. Jonathan Glazer)
George Washington (dir. David Gordon Green)
Wonder Boys (dir. Curtis Hanson)
Code Unknown (dir. Michael Haneke)
Memento (dir. Christopher Nolan)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (dir. Ang Lee)
Unbreakable (dir. M. Night Shyamalan)
Chicken Run (dir. Nick Park)
Dinner Rush (dir. Bob Giraldi)
The Claim (dir. Michael Winterbottom)
My Dog Skip (dir. Jay Russell)
Amores Perros (dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Diamond Men (dir. Dan Cohen)
The Gleaners & I (dir. Agnès Varda)
Maelström (dir. Denis Villeneuve)
Dancer in the Dark (dir. Lars von Trier)
The Cell (dir. Tarsem)
Under the Sand (dir. François Ozon)
High Fidelity (dir. Stephen Frears)
The Contender (dir. Rob Lurie)
Best in Show (dir. Christopher Guest)
Pollock (dir. Ed Harris)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (dir. Joel Coen)
Faithless (dir. Liv Ullmann)
In the Mood for Love (dir. Kar Wai Wong)
The Emperor’s New Groove (dir. Mark Dindal)
The Dish (dir. Rob Sitch)
The Widow of Saint-Pierre (dir. Patrice Leconte)
Ginger Snaps (dir. John Fawcett)
The Crimson Rivers (dir. Mathieu Kassovitz)
Everything Put Together (dir. Marc Forster)
Tigerland (dir. Joel Schumacher)
The Isle (dir. Ki-duk Kim)
Cast Away (dir. Robert Zemeckis)
Space Cowboys (dir. Clint Eastwood)
Dr. T & the Women (dir. Robert Altman)
Gladiator (dir. Ridley Scott)
Chuck & Buck (dir. Miguel Arteta)

A

Alfredson, Tomas
Let the Right One In (2008)

Anderson, Wes
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

Aronofsky, Darren
The Wrestler (2008)

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B

Burstein, Nanette
American Teen (2008)

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C

Castle, William
House on Haunted Hill (1959)

Coen, Joel and Ethan
Burn After Reading (2008)

Craven, Wes
The Deadly Friend (1986)

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D

Daniels, Lee
Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire (2009)

Dante, Joe
Matinee (1993)

Durkin, Sean
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)

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F

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G

Greenaway, Peter
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1990)

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H

Haigh, Andrew
Weekend (2011)

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I

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J

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K

Kaufman, Charlie
Synecdoche, New York (2008)

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L

Leigh, Mike
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)

Linklater, Richard
Bernie (2012)

Lumet, Sidney
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007)

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M

Malone, William
House on Haunted Hill (1999)

Marsh, James
Man on Wire (2008)

McDonagh, John
In Bruges (2008)

Melnick, Huck
Hardly Bear to Look at You (2009)

Moore, Michael
Slacker Uprising (2008)

Morris, Errol
Standard Operating Procedure (2008)

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N

Nolan, Christopher
The Dark Knight (2008)

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O

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P

Puenzo, Lucía
XXY (2008)

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R

Reichardt, Kelly
Wendy and Lucy (2008)

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S

Scherfig, Lone
An Education (2009)

Selick, Henry
Coraline (2009)

Shyamalan, M. Night
The Happening (2008)

Singh, Tarsem
The Fall (2008)

Soderbergh, Steven
The Informant! (2009)

Spielberg, Steven
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

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U

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V

Van Sant, Gus
Milk (2008)

Villeneuve, Denis
Incendies (2010)

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W

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X

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Y

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Z

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