tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152836662024-03-15T01:36:20.948-07:00The End of CinemaSean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.comBlogger1053125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15283666.post-43763124566961901382015-10-27T16:51:00.000-07:002015-10-27T16:51:22.924-07:00Changing Places<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've made some mention of this on social media, but if you haven't noticed, after more than ten years here at blogger I'm moving <a href="http://theendofcinema.net/">The End of Cinema over to wordpress</a>. After working on <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/">Seattle Screen Scene</a> for most of this year on that platform, I've just found it to look prettier and be a lot more fun and easier to use. Along with that, I went ahead and bought my own domain name, theendofcinema.net, which sounds a lot nicer than the ungainly blogspot.com address.<br />
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All of the content from here, such as it is, can now be found at that address. All the links at the new site direct back here to blogger, most of them can be redirected to the new site by replacing the "blogspot.com" part of the address with ".net", but the paragraph breaks don't seem to be converted particularly well, which can make the new posts look pretty squished. It's going to take awhile for me to go through and update and reformat whatever I can. But already there are some changes I'm pretty happy with (the year-by-year rankings are now <a href="http://theendofcinema.net/1909/12/31/rankings-1900-1909/">organized by decade</a> and <a href="http://theendofcinema.net/rankings-awards/">share an index</a> with the <a href="http://theendofcinema.net/2014/08/27/2002-endy-awards/">Endy Awards</a>, for example).<br />
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All the old stuff will remain here indefinitely, as there doesn't appear to be any kind of time limit for how long blogger allows these things to exist. I mean, our <a href="http://metroclassics.blogspot.com/">Metro Classics</a> site is still there and we haven't touched it for four years. But from now on, all my stuff will be on the new site and the various indices and lists here will no longer be updated.Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15283666.post-21723959085760881482015-10-14T17:14:00.002-07:002015-10-14T17:14:51.494-07:00This Week in Rankings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's been almost two months since the last rankings update. In that time I posted my annual <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2015/09/a-top-100-films-of-all-time.html">Top 100 Films of All-Time</a> list and covered the <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2015/09/viff-2015-index.html">2015 Vancouver International Film Festival</a>. On <a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.com/">The George Sanders Show</a> we did our annual <a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.com/2015/09/episode-68-top-ten-films-of-all-time.html">Top Tens episode</a>, covered the release of <a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.com/2015/09/episode-69-office-and-police-adjective.html">Johnnie To's <i>Office</i></a> on location and recorded <a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.com/2015/09/episode-70-viff-report-1.html">two podcasts</a> <a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.com/2015/10/episode-71-viff-report-2.html">in Canada</a>. At <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/">Seattle Screen Scene</a> we had extensive coverage of the festival as well, and before that I wrote about the Jackie Chan/John Cusack film <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/09/17/dragon-blade-daniel-lee-2015/" style="font-style: italic;">Dragon Blade</a>, M. Night Shyamalan's welcome return <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/09/09/the-visit-m-night-shyamalan-2015/" style="font-style: italic;">The Visit</a>, the bittersweet Chinese film <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/09/03/go-away-mr-tumor-han-yan-2015/" style="font-style: italic;">Go Away, Mr. Tumor</a>, Joe Swanberg's mediocre <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/08/31/digging-for-fire-joe-swanberg-2015/" style="font-style: italic;">Digging for Fire</a>, Korean action film <i><a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/08/28/memories-of-the-sword-park-heung-shik-2015/">Memories of the Sword</a></i> and <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/08/27/two-screwball-comedies-mistress-america-and-shes-funny-that-way/">two terrific American romantic comedies</a>, Noah Baumbach's <i>Mistress America</i> and Peter Bogdanovich's <i>She's Funny That Way</i>.<br />
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These are the movies I've watched and rewatched over the last few weeks and where they place on <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2005/09/movies-of-year-big-list-2-1976-20.html">my year-by-year rankings</a>. Short comments or capsule reviews for them can be found over <a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/">at letterboxd</a>.<br />
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The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming) - 8, 1939<br />
Voyage in Italy (Roberto Rossellini) - 3, 1954<br />
The Lion in Winter (Anthony Harvey) - 3, 1968<br />
Trouble in Mind (Alan Rudolph) - 10, 1985<br />
The Civil War (Ken Burns) - 9, 1990<br />
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The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese) - 1, 1993<br />
The Mirror (Jafar Panahi) - 7, 1997<br />
The Soong Sisters (Mabel Cheung) - 16, 1997<br />
The Transporter (Corey Yuen) - 33, 2002<br />
Transporter 2 (Louis Leterrier) - 57, 2005<br />
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Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu) - 15, 2009<br />
Weekend (Andrew Haigh) - 35, 2011<br />
A Matter of Interpretation (Lee Kwangkuk) - 11, 2014<br />
She's Funny That Way (Peter Bogdanovich) - 19, 2014<br />
Regarding Susan Sontag (Nancy D. Kates) - 77, 2014<br />
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Exodus: Gods and Kings (Ridley Scott) - 87, 2014<br />
The Dream of Shahrazad (Francois Verster) - 98, 2014<br />
Love is All (Kim Longinotto) - 108, 2014<br />
The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien) - 1, 2015<br />
The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin) - 3, 2015<br />
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88:88 (Isiah Medina) - 6, 2015<br />
Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke) - 9, 2015<br />
Arabian Nights Volume 2: The Desolate One (Miguel Gomes) - 10, 2015<br />
The Thoughts That Once We Had (Thom Andersen) - 11, 2015<br />
Li Wen at East Lake (Luo Li) - 12, 2015<br />
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Office (Johnnie To) - 13, 2015<br />
Kaili Blues (Bi Gan) - 14, 2015<br />
Taxi (Jafar Panahi) - 15, 2015<br />
Murmur of the Hearts (Sylvia Chang) - 16, 2015<br />
Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sangsoo) - 17, 2015<br />
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Port of Call (Philip Yung) - 19, 2015<br />
The Visit (M. Night Shyamalan) - 20, 2015<br />
Queen of Earth (Alex Ross Perry) - 21, 2015<br />
A Tale of Three Cities (Mabel Cheung) - 22, 2015<br />
45 Years (Andrew Haigh) - 23, 2015<br />
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Go Away, Mr. Tumor (Han Yan) - 24, 2015<br />
My Golden Days (Arnaud Desplechin) - 26, 2015<br />
The Pearl Button (Patricio Guzmán) - 27, 2015<br />
Topophilia (Peter Bo Rappmund) - 29, 2015<br />
Arabian Nights Volume 3: The Enchanted One (Miguel Gomes) - 32, 2015<br />
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The Treasure (Corneliu Porumboiu) - 33, 2015<br />
Greed; Ghost Light (Kim Nakyung) - 34, 2015<br />
The Exquisite Corpus (Peter Tscherkassky) - 35, 2015<br />
Dead Slow Ahead (Mauro Herce) - 39, 2015<br />
Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven) - 44, 2015<br />
Wondrous Boccaccio (The Taviani Brothers) - 45, 2015<br />
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Paradise (Sina Ataeian Dena) - 49, 2015<br />
Digging for Fire (Joe Swanberg) - 50, 2015<br />
Magicarena (Andrea Prandstraller & Niccolò Bruna) - 51, 2015<br />
Memories of the Sword (Park Heung-shik) - 52, 2015<br />
What Happened in Past Dragon Year (Sun Xun) - 53, 2015<br />
It's Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong (Emily Ting) - 57, 2015<br />
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Alice in Earnestland (Ahn Gooc-jin) - 58, 2015<br />
Dragon Blade (Daniel Lee) - 59, 2015<br />
Tandem (King Palisoc) - 61, 2015<br />
The Transporter Refueled (Camille Delamarre) - 62, 2015<br />
Argentina (Carlos Saura) - 63, 2015<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">I've been home from Vancouver for almost a week now, still suffering from the cold I catch there every year (something unhealthy about not eating properly, drinking copious amounts of caffeine and sharing breathing space with hundreds of other people ten hours a day for a week). Since my report on a few films from the </span><a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2015/09/viff-2015-first-four-days.html" style="text-align: center;">First Four Days</a><span style="text-align: center;"> of the festival, we covered a number of movies on a second episode of </span><a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.ca/2015/10/episode-71-viff-report-2.html" style="text-align: center;">The George Sanders Show</a><span style="text-align: center;">, namely </span><i style="text-align: center;">Right Now Wrong Then, The Assassin, Taxi, A Matter of Interpretation, Landfill Harmonic, The Dream of Shahrazad</i><span style="text-align: center;"> and </span><i style="text-align: center;">Arabian Nights</i><span style="text-align: center;">. Of the 29 features and 4 shorts I saw during my nine days in Vancouver, there are a few more standouts I want to mention.</span><br />
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Jia Zhangke's <i><b>Mountains May Depart</b></i> is one of the more polarizing films of the year. It marks a radical shift in Jia's formal technique, abandoning the long-shot/long-take aesthetic that has made him one of the preeminent examples of 21st Century Asian Minimalism. Instead, working with his longtime cinematographer, the artist Yu Lik-wai, Jia films in a conventional mainstream style: the camera moves, he edits within a scene and we get close-ups of the actors. This is in keeping with the broad melodrama of the story's construction. A schematic story of a love triangle told in three different time periods, <i>Mountains</i> is the most baldly emotional movie Jia has yet made. His first use of close-ups reveals what we long-suspected but that the old long shots tended to obscure, namely that Zhao Tao is one of the great actors of her generation. Her performance here is nothing less than phenomenal. In the first story, set in 1999, she's the pivot point of a love triangle with two men, one a poor coal miner, the other an aspiring capitalist. She ultimately chooses the rich man, which leads to the shattering heartbreaks of the second chapter, set in 2014, a story itself split in two halves, first about the miner (and his wife), then about Zhao and her now-estranged son, who is sent home to attend his grandfather's funeral. The third story, set in 2025, follows the son, now emigrated to Australia where he has forgotten his Chinese past, the language, and even his mother. He connects with another Chinese immigrant, his much older teacher (played by Sylvia Chang), and the Oedipal nature of their relationship is no less subtle than the boy's name (he was aspirationally christened "Dollar" by his ludicrous father).<br />
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This third section has come under fire (usually under the vaguely racist rubric of "Jia can't direct in English") for its obvious schematicism and the artificiality of Dong Zijian's performance as Dollar. I suspect this is largely a category error, that we're used to Jia making withdrawn, somewhat obscure films like <i><a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.com/2014/04/episode-33-magnificent-ambersons-and.html">Platform</a> </i>and <i>Still Life</i>, films whose equally schematic melodrama is hidden behind long takes and a lack of emotionally direct dialogue. The issues Jia is addresses are not new, no one has more obsessively followed the dislocations and disruptions of the Chinese family in the wake of the imperatives of modern capitalism than he has over the past 20 years. But as with his previous film, <i>A Touch of Sin</i>, a series of violent short stories loosely related to the Chinese action film tradition (though not really wuxia in particular), he's now addressing those issues in a more conventionally generic mode. The mix of reality and surreality has long been a part of Jia's work, from the flash animation and theme park environment of <i>The World </i>to the alien craft and bridge light romanticism of <i>Still Life</i>, resting uneasily alongside documentary footage of China's changing landscapes (see also his actual documentaries <i>24 City</i> and <i>I Wish I Knew</i>, which audaciously mix actorly performances into their real life accounts), it's only now that the surrealism has overtaken an entire narrative. And there is no filmic form more surreal than the classical melodrama. And, if you're paying attention to the world today and where it's headed, it only seems logical that the absurd is the only true way to capture it. This is Jia's lunatic masterpiece.<br />
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Sylvia Chang is terrific, as usual in <i>Mountains May Depart</i>, even better than she is in Johnnie To's <i><a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.ca/2015/09/episode-69-office-and-police-adjective.html">Office</a></i>, which she co-adapted from her own play. But that's not all she's had for us in 2015, she also directed <i><b>Murmur of the Hearts</b></i>, like <i>Mountains </i>a family melodrama taking place across multiple time periods. It stars Isabella Leong, making a long-awaited return to the screen after several years in retirement following her marriage in 2008 (don't miss her in Pang Ho-Cheung's <i><a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2014/08/running-out-of-karma-edmund-pang-ho.html">Isabella</a></i> from 2006). She plays a young woman dating an aspiring boxer. The boxer has vision problems, and Isabella, an artist, is haunted by memories of her parents, who split up when she was a child, which also separated her from her brother. We also meet the brother, now a tour guide on the small island off the coast of Taiwan where they grew up. Chang deftly weaves together the characters' present lives and memories of their parents with a splash of magic realism in the form of a mermaid and a quite fashionable ghost/bartender. It's a more conventional art house movie than <i>Mountains</i>, in that it's the kind of Taiwanese film that seems rather inexplicable for the first 40 minutes or so and, as everything becomes clear and all the various connections are resolved, becomes deeply moving as the story comes together with a satisfying click. It isn't as meta-cinematic as the other Chang-directed films I've seen (the very good <i><a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/tempting-heart/">Tempting Heart</a></i> and <i>20 30 40</i>), but it's warm and sweet and quite lovely, a nice flipside to the acidic <i>Office.</i><br />
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Yet another Chinese film blurring the boundaries between past and present is <i><b>Kaili Blues</b></i>, from first-time director Bi Gan. A middle aged man, a doctor, helps watch over his nephew while his brother, the boy's father, gambles and gets himself in trouble. When he learns that his brother may have sold the boy in another town, he heads out to bring him home. But what he finds there is an inexplicable kind of temporal loop, chronicled in a breath-taking 40+ minute single-shot, as the man, his driver, the driver's girlfriend, a local band, and various other characters wander around a river spanning village. The doctor's past, and that of his fellow doctor, now an elderly woman, seemingly come to life in the village, along with his nephew's future. There's no apparent rationale for the loop, it's simply a world where the past, present and future exist together, an endless cycle repeating itself, or the infinite possibilities of an unknowable universe. It was the most satisfyingly confounding film of the festival and an audacious debut, one that in past years would have earned its director a Dragons & Tigers award.<br />
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Moving away from China but sticking with the experimental, I lastly want to mention a trio of films. Portuguese director Lois Patiño's <i><b>Night Without Distance</b></i> is a semi-narrative short about smugglers waiting in the Galician borderland while cops lie in wait for them. Patiño films the whole thing in negative, but not black and white, rather mind-blowingly colored. Purples and yellows dominate the inverted landscape, with gorgeous drops of rain bursting from a stream, while the people stand still, haunting the otherworldly spaces. It's a documentary vision of our Earth as filmed from the land of ghosts. I've never seen anything like it. Paired with it was <i><b>Topophilia</b></i>, by director Peter Bo Rappmund. Painstakingly assembled out of thousands of still images covering the length of the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline, it's a fascinating rumination of the effect of technology on environment, and the way the two seem to meld together. With an eerily assaultive soundtrack largely built out of the sounds of the pipeline itself, the impact of the machinery on the natural world is undeniable, and yet, the natural world goes on all around it, taking no notice. Mauro Herce's <i><b>Dead Slow Ahead</b></i> is another film about machinery, chronicling the life of a massive transport ship as it traverses the Mediterranean. Here gives us the kind of otherworldly closeups familiar from <i>Leviathan</i>, while putting more emphasis on the ways the ship technology dwarfs the humans that work within it. A long final section echoes with recordings of the workers as they call home, leaving messages, talking to distant wives, mothers, children, living ghosts in the machine.Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15283666.post-88991927512630601312015-10-09T09:12:00.001-07:002015-10-16T07:48:14.296-07:00VIFF 2015: Hou Hsiao-hsien's The Assassin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If you wanted to design to film perfectly and specifically for me, it would probably be something like <i>The Assassin</i>. A film by my favorite contemporary filmmaker, one from whom I spent months earlier this year studying and <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/tag/hou-hsiao-hsien/">writing about in detail</a> for a theatrical retrospective, working in one of my favorite film genres, the one I’ve spent the better part of <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2013/11/running-out-of-karma-index.html">the last three years exploring</a>. There was simply no way this wasn’t going to be a movie I liked. But since whether a critic likes a film or not is easily the least interesting aspect of any decent review, thankfully that task is quickly disposed with and we can proceed to more interesting concerns, the what and why of the film. Hou Hsiao-hsien’s latest, his first film since 2007’s <i>Flight of the Red Balloon</i>, is set in the late Tang Dynasty period, starring Shu Qi as a young woman who returns home after ten years as a killer-in-training to wreak vengeance on the local ruler. The film follows a typical wuxia plot structure, with motivations gradually revealed and complicated, schemes exposed, punctuated by regularly occurring fight sequence set-pieces. But Hou has adapted that structure to his own unique rhythm, presenting a languid, patient narrative of long takes exploring lush sets and landscapes. It’s the stillest action movie there’s ever been.<br />
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In tone the closest analogue in Hou’s previous work might be <i><a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/03/27/millennium-mambo-hou-hsiao-hsien-2001/">Millennium Mambo</a></i>, a hypnotic film that could seemingly spin on forever. Right up until the director’s credit came on screen, I kept expecting another hour of narrative. I had no idea how much time was passing, or what the shape of the story was, until it ended. This is one of the distinct pleasures of some of Hou’s best work, from <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/03/21/the-time-to-live-the-time-to-die-hou-hsiao-hsien-1985/"><i>The Time to Live, The Time to Die</i></a> to <i>Goodbye South Goodbye</i> to <i><a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2012/08/flights-of-red-balloons.html">Flight of the Red Balloon</a></i>. Looked at in total, however, the plot could easily be that of a late 70s Chor Yuen film (but not at all a Chang Cheh film, for a number of reasons, the gender of the protagonist and the ultimate optimism of the work first among them). It’s just that Hou refuses to match the pace of the film to the complexity of the story. He teases out exposition in long dialogue scenes, but shoots those scenes with such intricate beauty that it’s hard to pay attention to the words being spoken when the pictures are so fascinating. An example: a long, central scene between Chang Chen’s governor (the target of the assassination plot) and his favorite concubine explains much of the Shu Qi character’s past and the volatile tangle of competing interests that lead to his family breaking off Chang’s engagement with Shu in favor of another woman, a humiliation which lead to Shu’s exile. It also demonstrates the bond between Chang and the concubine, which motivates a further complication in the plot, as Chang’s wife has a murderous scheme of her own. But rather than the actors, who form a loving triangle in the center middle distance of the frame and remain mostly still, our eye is drawn to the edges of the frame. The left is dominated by a line of three flames, reflections of candle lights that appear to have no on-screen referent; the right by a curtain that billows in and out throughout the scene, blown by a similarly unsourced wind, shrouding the actors in gauze when it blows in, revealing them in crystal clarity when it blows out. You get so lost in the image, it’s easy to miss the thread of the plot.<br />
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But plot there is (this is not, as <a href="https://twitter.com/NigelBahadur/status/651103791782100992">my pal Neil</a> so tweeted, a film "about a bunch of veils and curtains”). Hou’s films, from <i><a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/03/20/the-boys-from-fengkuei-hou-hsiao-hsien-1983/">The Boys from Fengkuei</a></i> on, have a distinctly languid place, regardless of how much actually occurs in the narrative. <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/03/24/flowers-of-shanghai-hou-hsiao-hsien-1998/"><i>Flowers of Shanghai</i></a> is an opium dream of a film, one in which there’s almost no dramatic action, a fair amount in dialogue and a torrent of emotional churning under the surface. <i>A City of Sadness</i> is a multi-layered, multi-character historical epic. <i>Millennium Mambo</i> and <i>The Puppetmaster</i> are narrated tales, one about the entropic life of a club girl in modern Taipei, the other a 50 year biopic about a man caught up in the sweep of history. In mood and pace the films are the same, with long single take scenes of apparently mundane and occasionally inexplicable behavior drawing us into the feel of the protagonists' world, an effect amplified by the highly subjective nature of the narration. That subjectivity is the essential element in all of Hou’s films, as he is ever seeking to capture an individual’s experience of the world, and to inspire a deep empathy in the audience. His films eliminate any sense of moral judgment: whatever bad or dumb things his heroes may do, he doesn’t allow us any distance from them. We are inside them, left to understand their lives as they do. <i>The Assassin</i> is no different in this respect. Its dense plot of maneuvering factions in the present inspired by the secret schemes of the past is revealed slowly, like <i>Flowers</i> almost entirely in dialogue. Our identification with Shu Qi’s hero is established in a new way, however. Rather than linger over lengthy shots of Shu at work or in repose, as in <i>Mambo</i>, we instead observe things as she is observing them. Not strictly from her point of view, but often Hou will show us a long scene of character interaction only to cut at the end to Shu observing silently from some hiding spot (invisibly ninja-style in the rafters, for example). Her motivations remain opaque through the length of the film, right up until the very end we don’t really know what she wants or how she plans to go about achieving it. Of course, when that “Directed By” credit does appear on-screen, everything makes perfect sense.<br />
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What she ends up achieving is a bold rejection of the traditional wuxia narrative, the first major development in the genre in decades. This century’s art house wuxia films have all taken the form of homage, usually to King Hu. A mix of spectacular and (more importantly perhaps) spectacularly shot action with a bit of Buddhism and above all a devotion to a code of honor that demands personal unhappiness, films like <i>Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon</i>, <i>House of Flying Daggers</i> and <i>The Grandmaster</i> follow the strictly established rules of the genre, which itself is as old as cinema and reaches back through centuries of Chinese literature. For all their technical facility, they remain merely highly polished variations on Hu’s work from the 1970s, while lacking the sense of experimentation that makes films like <i><a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.com/2013/08/episode-ten-grandmaster-and-touch-of-zen.html">A Touch of Zen</a></i> or <i><a href="http://theyshotpictures.com/they-shot-pictures-ep34-king-hu/">Legend of the Mountain</a></i> so unfathomable to this day. There hasn’t really been anything new in the genre since Hu’s titanic pair of of <i>Legend of the Mountain</i> and <i>Raining in the Mountain</i> in 1979. That is, until now (unless you count Tsui Hark's various variations on the genre, which add to the traditional form outlandish special effects, breath-taking speed and an anarchic wit. At their core, though, they're still traditional narratives). Obviously in adapting his highly idiosyncratic style to the genre, Hou was bound to come up with something interesting. But I’m surprised at how much he actually bent his career-long aesthetic. In <i>The Assassin</i>, Hou cuts within a scene, he uses different film stocks and aspect ratios (it's all in the archaic 1.33 ratio (which emphasizes the verticality of traditional Chinese painting, the influence of which is felt strongly in the landscape scenes, aided immeasurably by the natural beauty of China's landscapes and fortuitous fogs rolling in to mimic the vast negative spaces so distinctive in that art form), like last year's <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2014/10/eight-more-films-from-viff-2014.html"><i>Horse Money</i> and <i>Jauja</i></a>, but for two flashback shots, on slightly grainier film stock, which are 1.85, <a href="http://moviemezzanine.com/cannes-review-the-assassin/">possibly to accommodate</a> the shape of a long musical instrument), he has insert shots, and the camera moves into the frame, all techniques he’d abandoned 30 years ago when he moved from mainstream romantic comedies into art house minimalism. But as the demands of wuxia changed Hou, so did Hou change wuxia. There are fight scenes in <i>The Assassin</i>, but they are quick. Elegant and brief, they are over before the heroes of a <a href="http://theyshotpictures.com/they-shot-pictures-ep32-lau-kar-leung/">Lau Kar-leung</a> film would be even a little bit warmed-up. The de-emphasis on action is vital: Shu Qi is an assassin who rejects assassination, a wuxia knight-errant who rejects the world of violence, the jianghu. She rejects everything that defines a wuxia hero: the whole Confucian edifice of blind obedience to ones master, of defining honor as the strict following of a code that has little to do with morality or even common sense, the reification of abstract concepts over basic human happiness (the film also enacts a recurring opposition in Hou's work, that of the country and city, as Shu leaves the lushly ornate interiors of imperial life for the rough open skies of the country and an itinerant village existence). The fact that she’s a woman isn’t especially unusual, there have been female warriors in wuxia stories for centuries, and they’ve been consistently represented on-screen. But usually they behave exactly the same as the male characters, while occasionally falling victim to romantic desires as well. Shu avoids the tragic fate of a Zhang Ziyi character by doing something Zhang never could, despite the obvious evils or inhumanity of her various masters. Shu, in explicitly rejecting everything the wuxia ethos stands for, turns the wuxia hero from a tragic figure into a truly inspirational one. She’s the first one I’ve ever seen that actually succeeds in reinventing the world, in making it a more perfect place.Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15283666.post-81390571569654791672015-09-29T17:22:00.002-07:002015-10-02T10:53:23.543-07:00VIFF 2015: The First Four Days<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Things at the <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.ca/2015/09/viff-2015-index.html">Vancouver International Film Festival</a> have gotten off to a leg-numbing pace, as there's been hardly a moment since I was freed from Customs on Friday afternoon when I've had enough time to write in combination with a working internet connection. Here it is Tuesday already and I've seen eighteen movies and I haven't written more than a tweet about a single one of them. Mike's been writing a bunch over at <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/tag/viff-2015/">Seattle Screen Scene</a>, you should definitely check out his stuff over there. We've also got a few reviews from local critic Neil Bahadur and Melissa will be adding some stuff sometime as well. We also managed to record an episode of <a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.ca/2015/09/episode-70-viff-report-1.html">The George Sanders Show</a> last night wherein we discussed several of the films we’ve been watching, including Guy Maddin’s <i>The Forbidden Room</i>, Miguel Gomes’s <i>Arabian Nights</i>, Thom Andersen’s <i>The Thoughts That Once We Had</i>, Luo Li’s <i>Li Wen at East Lake</i>, Lee Kwangkuk’s <i>A Matter of Interpretation</i> and Philip Yung’s <i>Port of Call</i>. I might write about some of those here as well, but for now I’m just going to attempt to cover some of the films we didn’t get to on the show.<br />
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Unbelievably, despite having just finished watching it a mere 90 minutes before we began recording, both of us neglected to talk about Hong Sangsoo’s latest release, one of our most-anticipated films of the festival. The Hong film is a perennial highlight of every VIFF (I’ve seen <i>Like You Know it All, <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.ca/2013/05/on-okis-movie.html">Oki’s Movie</a>, Hahaha, <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2012/10/viff-2012-in-another-country.html">In Another Country</a>, Our Sunhi</i> and <i><a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.ca/2014/10/four-romantic-comedies-from-viff-2014.html">Hill of Freedom</a></i> here over the years) and <i><b>Right Now, Wrong Then</b></i> is no disappointment. It’s a very good film, while lacking the formal experimentation that distinguishes his best work (<i>Oki’s Movie, The Day He Arrives</i>) or the sheer giddy pleasure of his funniest movies (<i>Hill of Freedom, In Another Country</i>), it has a precision and focus that assures that, despite a certain conventionality, it will become one of his more popular features. Split evenly in two halves, it follows a film director, in town for a festival showing and Q & A, as he wanders about a tourist site where he meets a young woman. They talk, drink soju, make awkward approaches at romance and ultimately split when the director is proven to be a dishonest, womanizing lout. Then the film resets, complete with a new title card (the first half is “<i>Right Then, Wrong Now</i>”, the second “<i>Right Now, Wrong Then</i>”) and we replay the same day but with significant differences. The director in this version is honest and open (perhaps to a fault, as when a drunken overheating compels him to strip naked in front of his companions). Hong significantly varies his camera setups in the second section, creating more balanced compositions where in the first half the setups tended to privilege the director’s perspective (including a Hong rarity: an actual POV shot). It’s a mature film, relaxed and confident with a simple truth to tell. But underlying it all is a palpable loneliness. It’s played as sadness, as tragedy in the first half, where the director’s faults lead to failure and angry isolation, and as wistful melancholy in the second, where people can find happiness in connecting with an other, with the full knowledge that any such connection is necessarily temporary. It’s a quiet and sweet film, a warm room on a cold night, and vice versa.<br />
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We talked a bit about <i><b>Port of Call</b></i> on the podcast, but I didn’t mention one idea I had about the film, which is that it’s a kind of update/companion to Peter Chan’s 1996 masterpiece <i><a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.ca/2014/01/running-out-of-karma-peter-chans.html">Comrades, Almost a Love Story</a></i>. In that film, Maggie Cheung plays a woman who immigrates from the Mainland to Hong Kong, works a number of jobs to survive (including at a local McDonald’s), has a deep connection with a character played by a major pop star (Leon Lai) with whom she bonds over a shared love of another pop star, Teresa Teng, and falls in with a big guy, a man of violence who loves her and takes care of her. In <i>Port of Call</i>, Jessie Li plays a woman who immigrates from the Mainland to Hong Kong, works a variety of jobs to survive (including at a local McDonald’s), has a deep connection with a character played by a major pop star (Aaron Kwok – though the two characters never meet, of course, their relationship, or rather, his with her, is the defining element of the film), and is obsessed with another pop star (Sammi Cheng). She too falls in with a bad crowd, and her relationship with a large man capable of violence leads to her doom. Chan’s film is one of nostalgia, with Hong Kong as an aspirational place of freedom and opportunity, where one can move, work hard and eventually make it big (and then, prior to the Handover, make it to America). Its characters look backwards to their home villages, with Teng’s music as the aching symbol of the world they left behind. Yung’s is a film of horror, based on true events that occurred in the 2008-2010 period, the Hong Kong it finds is no longer one of hope, but of desperation, with the poor set upon each other in twisted games of manipulation and violence, where even a glimmer of a true connection (facilitated by an internet chat) can lead to disaster. Cheng’s music is the aspiration, it’s what Li and her sister listened to when they were trying to learn Cantonese, it’s the music of hope amid failure. Yung set the film in the recent past, as much because that’s the time when the actual events occurred as because given the pace of change in China, the situation has already shifted dramatically. In his Q & A, he suggested that economic conditions have balanced so much between Hong Kong and the Mainland’s urban centers, that such aspirational immigration is far less common (in fact, he points out that even in 2008, the dream of moving to Hong Kong was Li’s mother’s dream, the younger generation doesn’t look at the former colony in the same way). But there’s nothing particularly unique about the idealization of Hong Kong. If the Mainland is catching up with or even surpassing it in the realm of fantasy-creation, there will always be a disconnection between that dream, say the candy-colored consumer paradise of <i><a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/09/03/go-away-mr-tumor-han-yan-2015/">Go Away Mr. Tumor</a></i>, and the gruesome reality of the poor folks who fall into nightmare.<br />
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Emily Ting’s <i><b>It’s Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong</b></i> is a different kind of fantasy, one of ex-patriates in Hong Kong and, more distressingly, of indie filmmakers weaned on <i>Before Sunrise</i>. Jamie Chung plays an American from Los Angeles (her grandparents emigrated from Hong Kong) lost in the city who runs into a fellow American named Josh. He’s the Joshiest Josh in film history, working in finance but really, an aspiring novelist. Actor Bryan Greenberg looks like the child of Michael Rappaport and John Krasczinski, but with even worse hair than that implies. He shows her around, lets slip way too late in the evening that he has a girlfriend and the couple splits. . . only to reunite a year later for another walk (once again hitting places best seen in Wong Kar-wai and Johnnie To films) and faux-naturalistic conversation (and a trip to a bar to see a Hong Kong knock-off of Arcade Fire, which is exactly as appalling as that sounds). After a century of Parisian dominance, it’s clear to me that Hong Kong is the most cinematic city in the world, and it certainly doesn’t let Ting down. The film is gorgeous, the bright lights of Hong Kong providing enough inherent pleasure that one is able to overlook the constructed obviousness of the script and the bland nothingness that is Greenberg’s performance. Chung fares better, her lines are just as generic but she sells them with big eyes and a world-saving smile. Pretty as the city is, it’s a problem when during the romantic climax of your film, the most interesting thing on screen is the multi-layered play of lights on a taxi cab window. Not even a cameo from the great Richard Ng can bring it to life.<br />
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A vastly more successful Hong Kong romance comes from the team of Mabel Cheung and Alex Law (she directs, he produces, they both write). Based on the life of Jackie Chan’s parents (though the story ends long before he was born) <i><b>A Tale of Three Cities</b></i> stars Tang Wei and Lau Ching-wan (weirdly billed as “Sean Lau”, which I haven’t seen him marketed as in years, a sign perhaps that the film is trying for a North American release) as a couple kept desperately apart by war (first against the Japanese, then against the Communists). In a Brady Bunch-like set-up, Tang has two young daughters and a husband she didn’t care for who gets killed by a clock during an air raid, while Lau has two sons and a wife dying of some unknown disease. They meet when, in the course of his duty as a Nationalist soldier, he catches her smuggling opium and lets her go. It turns out she’s his wife’s cousin and they meet up again when the war forces them from Shanghai to the smaller town of Anhui. He’s loud, illiterate and usually drunk, she’s quiet, refined and very smart. Of course they fall in love, but first the war (Lau is captured by the Japanese) and then family keep them apart (Tang’s mother doesn’t think he’s classy enough for her girl). The performances of the two leads are exceptional, Lau playing a typical role for him: a hard man with soft eyes. Tang though, is proving herself to simply be one of the best actors in the world right now. Last year at VIFF she carried Ann Hui’s biopic <i>The Golden Era</i> (set during the same period, but much more experimental in style and tone) with a finely modulating performance as a psychologically unstable writer. Already in 2015 she’s been brilliant in a nearly a wordless performance in Michael Mann’s <i>Blackhat</i> and as the emotionally explosive center of Johnnie To’s musical <i>Office</i>. Her performance here is halfway between those two, with simple eye movements and precise gestures, she is curiosity and determination in the interior scenes, and in the many scenes of disaster she is broad and heart-wrenching, an expressive anguish that goes beyond melodrama. The film is a series of brief unions and long separations, as the two find themselves apart from each other and their children for increasingly long periods of time, mirroring the coming together and tearing apart of the nation itself. Cheung expertly keeps things focused, despite the leaps in time and location, and the film is a masterpiece of classical storytelling, the kind of lush historical romantic epic that Hollywood hasn’t managed to make in almost 20 years (<i>Titanic</i> is the last good one I can think of). Along with another such epic, 2014’s <i>The Crossing Part One</i>, directed by John Woo, it’s clear that these veterans of the Hong Kong film industry have once again bested Hollywood at its own game.<br />
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Every year before heading over to the festival, I try to familiarize myself with some of the directors whose films are playing there that I haven't yet seen. Last year I watched films by Pedro Costa, Lisandro Alonso, Imtiaz Ali and Heiward Mak, all of which I liked a lot and all of whom had films at VIFF I ended up enjoying a great deal. This year I haven't been able to see as much as I would have liked. There was the discussion of Corneliu Porumboiu's <i>Police, Adjective</i> on <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2015/09/viff-2015-preview-part-one-office.html">The George Sanders Show</a> I linked to a couple of days ago, but other than that there's just these two movies, Jafar Panahi's <i>The Mirror</i> and Andrew Haigh's <i>Weekend</i>.<br />
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Panahi is mostly famous these days for continuing to smuggle films out of Iran despite having been officially banned from doing so in 2010. His <i>This is Not a Film</i> won wide-spread acclaim the following year, and his <i>Closed Curtain</i> was a film I was hoping to see at VIFF 2013 but for scheduling reasons didn't make it. (I have hard luck with Iranian films in general at the festival, a number of interesting ones have played there over the years, but other than the two Abbas Kiarostami films <i>Certified Copy</i> and <i><a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2013/01/viff-2012-like-someone-in-love.html">Like Someone in Love</a></i>, I haven't managed to get to a single one.) His new film is called <i>Taxi</i> (well, it's called been retitled <i>Jafar Panahi's Taxi </i>for North American release, apparently so people don't confuse it with the 2004 Jimmy Fallon-Queen Latifah movie). My experience with Iranian cinema in general is woefully inadequate, I only caught up with Asghar Farhadi and <i><a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.com/2015/02/episode-54-alphaville-and-separation.html">A Separation</a></i> earlier this year, for example, so rather than simply go with Panahi's recent work, I decided to watch one of his earliest films, the 1997 feature <i>The Mirror</i>, which won the Locarno Film Festival that year.<br />
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It's an idea for a film so simple in its provocation that I'd be surprised if it'd never been done before. There's something elemental about it, like an idea that's always been there in cinema but never quite been expressed so well or so effectively before (John Cage's <i>4'33"</i> came to mind). A young girl, six or seven years old, has to make her way home from school after her mom fails to pick her up on time. She doesn't quite know the way, and maneuvers in and out of buses, cabs and crosswalks with the mostly ineffectual help of strangers. Along the way we see a cross-section of the city in its particular time and place (Teheran in the mid-90s), a kind of neo-realist city-symphony. But then, after 40 minutes, the girl looks at the camera and decides she doesn't want to be in the movie anymore and storms off. The film stock abruptly shifts and we see Panahi and his crew debating what to do next, a pseudo-documentary of a film production in a panicked moment. They let her go, while leaving her microphone on and follow her home, surreptitiously filming the girl's journey now in reverse as she in "real" life must accomplish the same tasks her character did in fiction.<br />
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It's a nifty gimmick and anchored beautifully by the performance of Mina Mohammad Khani as the girl. But that's just a MacGuffin for the film's true interest, which is the portrait of Teheran in all its cacophony and chaos. A dozen little stories spin around the girl (the young couple separated by the enforced gender divide on the public bus; the man who just wants his poor relations to dress nicely at his daughter's wedding) but mostly in the first half, the constructed narrative section. The people in the second half are more incoherent, their plotlines less clear, their characters not so cleanly delineated with cinematic shorthand. Some characters recur, including an old woman that throws a monkey wrench into even that distinction. We heard her talking in the narrative section, complaining about the lack of respect she gets from her children. When the girl meets her again in the second, she explains that she wasn't acting in the earlier scenes, they just paid her to show up and she made up her lines out of her own life. Fiction, reality: it's all the same. The important thing is to invest in traffic lights and make your kids memorize their home addresses.<br />
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From an inauspicious beginning as an assistant editor on <i>Gladiator</i>, British director Andrew Haigh burst on the scene with his 2011 romantic drama <i>Weekend</i>, about a brief but intense relationship between two men in Nottingham. Played by Tom Cullen and Chris New, the two bond over long naturalistic conversations about life, family, friends, sexual histories and the difficulties of being gay in a predominantly straight world. It's firmly in the tradition of the romantic drama, with shades of <i>Brief Encounter, Before Sunrise, Waterloo Bridge, Morocco</i> and <i>Lost in Translation </i>(among others), a talky film about two people trying to figure out their place in the world and if that place has room for anyone else. As such it's expertly done, but Haigh brings to it something special with a unique contrast of styles. The interiors, the dialogue and party scenes, are shot intimately, with a fuzzy off-handedness that is the signal for realism in contemporary cinema. We skip forward in time catching only glimpses of much longer conversations, many of which are mumbled or lost in a cacophony background (this is entirely realistic: I loved how in the party and bar scenes I couldn't understand any of what anyone was saying, just like I can't in such real-life situations).<br />
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This isn't in itself remarkable, but what separates those scenes is. All the exterior shots are carefully framed, with long straight lines forming sharp corners and diagonals. These usually (but not always) function as pillow shots, popularized by Yasujiro Ozu as the institial spaces for contemplation between scenes of plot. As in Ozu, Haigh's are precisely framed, but where in Ozu's films they are brightly scored with jaunty music that often belies the serious dramatics at work in his characters lives, in <i>Weekend</i> the shots are oppressive and constricting, a constructed world of boundaries imposing public limits on the expression of the relationship possibilities that thrive behind apartment tower windows. My favorite are the three shots with the setup pictured above. In each shot, Cullen watches New walk away from his apartment. In each shot New is wearing a different colored jacket (yellow, black, red: the three colors are unified in the outfit New wears in his final scene). Each time, New hesitates a bit as he walks away, his motion, and Cullen's shadow, depicting the emotional course of their relationship in minute gestures. If the film depicted of just these three shots, that would be enough to make it something special. Like with <i>The Mirror</i>, <i>Weekend</i> is at its heart a fairly simple cinematic and thematic idea, but one that is likewise all the more powerful for the purity of its expression. Haigh's new film <i>45 Years</i> won wide acclaim at the just-concluded Toronto Film Festival, I can't wait to see it at VIFF.Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15283666.post-34440368966467499582015-09-22T17:40:00.001-07:002015-09-22T18:04:26.161-07:00VIFF 2015 Preview Part Two: A Big List of VIFF MoviesI went to my first Vancouver International Film Festival in 2008 and have attended <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2010/01/film-festival-index.html">every year since</a> but one (2011, when a kid was born two weeks before the festival started). As I look forward to <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2015/09/viff-2015-index.html">this year's edition</a>, I thought it might be nice to take a look back at some of my favorite films from previous festivals. Here are my Top 50 VIFF Movies, which given the current exchange rate, yields 66 titles.<br />
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1. Oki's Movie (Hong Sangsoo, 2010)</div>
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2. Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley, 2008)</div>
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4. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)</div>
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5. Sparrow (Johnnie To, 2008)</div>
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6. La última película (Raya Martin & Mark Peranson, 2013)</div>
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7. The Midnight After (Fruit Chan, 2014)</div>
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8. The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh, 2013)</div>
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9. Hill of Freedom (Hong Sangsoo, 2014)</div>
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10. Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami, 2012)</div>
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11. Night Across the Street (Raúl Ruiz, 2012)</div>
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12. Jauja (Lisandro Alonso, 2014)</div>
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13. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)</div>
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14. Wolf Children (Mamoru Hosada, 2012)</div>
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15. National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman, 2014)</div>
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16. Horse Money (Pedro Costa, 2014)</div>
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17. A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke, 2013)</div>
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18. Romance Joe (Lee Kwangkuk, 2012)</div>
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19. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang, 2013)</div>
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20. Carlos (Olivier Assayas, 2010)</div>
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21. In Another Country (Hong Sangsoo, 2011)</div>
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22. Tabu (Miguel Gomes, 2012)</div>
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23. Mekong Hotel (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2012)</div>
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24. Thomas Mao (Zhu Wen, 2010)</div>
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25. Written By (Wai Ka-fai, 2009)</div>
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26. Our Sunhi (Hong Sangsoo, 2012)</div>
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27. A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (Ben Rivers & Ben Russell, 2013)</div>
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28. The Last Time I Saw Macao (João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata, 2012)</div>
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29. When Night Falls (Ying Liang, 2012)</div>
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30. Hahaha (Hong Sangsoo, 2010)</div>
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31. 607 (Liu Jiayin, 2010)</div>
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32. Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl (Manoel de Oliveira, 2009)</div>
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33. Yumen (JP Sniadecki, Xu Ruotao & Xiang Huang, 2013)</div>
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34. Adieu au langage (Jean-Luc Godard. 2014)</div>
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35. La Sapienza (Eugène Green, 2014)</div>
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36. Memories Look at Me (Song Fang, 2012)</div>
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37. Three Sisters (Wang Bing, 2012)</div>
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38. Bluebeard (Catherine Breillat, 2009)</div>
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39. Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh, 2008)</div>
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40. Hard to Say (Lee Kwangkuk, 2011)</div>
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41. Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2014)</div>
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42. Walker (Tsai Ming-liang, 2012)</div>
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43. Four Ways to Die in My Hometown (Chai Chunya, 2012)</div>
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44. Heaven Knows What (Josh & Benny Safdie, 2014)</div>
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45. Ballet 422 (Jody Lee Lipes, 2014)</div>
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46. People's Park (JP Sniadecki & Libbie Cohn, 2012)</div>
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47. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme, 2008)</div>
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48. Highway (Imtiaz Ali, 2014)</div>
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49. Like You Know it All (Hong Sangsoo, 2009)</div>
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50. The Great Passage (Yûya Ishii, 2013)</div>
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51. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, 2008)</div>
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52. Something in the Air (Olivier Assayas, 2012)</div>
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53. Emperor Visits the Hell (Luo Li, 2012)</div>
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54. I Wish I Knew (Jia Zhangke, 2010)</div>
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55. The Golden Era (Ann Hui, 2014)</div>
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56. Mahjong (João Rui Guerra da Mata, 2013)</div>
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57. Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2012)</div>
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58. Thursday Till Sunday (Dominga Sotomayor, 2012)</div>
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59. Uncertain Relationships Society (Heiward Mak, 2014)</div>
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60. The Sleeping Beauty (Catherine Breillat, 2010)</div>
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61. Trap Street (Vivian Qu, 2013)</div>
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62. Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008)</div>
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65. Welcome to New York (Abel Ferrara, 2014)</div>
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Leading up to the <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2015/09/viff-2015-index.html">2015 Vancouver International Film Festival</a>, I'm hoping to catch up with and review some films from directors who have films featured at this years festival, directors who are reasonably new to me. This is the first installment.<br />
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Johnnie To's latest film is, unfortunately, not playing at this year's festival, continuing a worrying trend from 2014 wherein the To film (<i><a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2014/11/running-out-of-karma-dont-go-breaking.html">Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2</a></i>) only played at the Toronto Film Festival before receiving a very limited North American theatrical release targeted solely at the diasporic film market. <i>Office </i>is written and produced by Sylvia Chang, who also stars. It's an adaptation of her play <i>Design for Living</i> and marks a reunion of the actress with To, who directed her and Chow Yun-fat in the 1989 film <i>All About Ah-Long</i>, a family melodrama (also based on a screenplay by Chang, co-written with Chow) and one of the biggest hits of To's career. In addition to being an accomplished actress, writer and pop singer, Chang has also directed a number of excellent films, the latest being <i>Murmur of the Hearts</i>, which will be playing at this year's VIFF.</div>
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Also at VIFF this year is Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu's <i>The Treasure</i>. A leading member of the New Romanian Cinema that has found international prominence over the last decade or so, we of The George Sanders Show had yet to see any of his work. So for this week's episode, we took a look at his 2009 black comedy <i>Police, Adjective</i>. We also discuss <i>Office</i>, the films of Johnnie To and discuss several of the less well-known films we're looking forward to seeing at this year's festival.</div>
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Mabel Cheung's <i><a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f11645-a-tale-of-three-cities">A Tale of Three Cities</a></i>, based on the life of Jackie Chan's parents and starring the intriguing pair of Lau Ching-wan and Tang Wei, is playing at this year's festival. The only other one of Cheung's films I've seen was 1987's <i>An Autumn's Tale</i>, with Chow Yun-Fat, so I decided to take a look at her 1997 historical epic about three sisters. </div>
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The oldest (Michelle Yeoh) marries one of the richest men in China, a direct descendant of Confucius. The second (Maggie Cheung) marries Sun Yat-sen while he's in the midst of overthrowing the Qing Dynasty and establishing his Republic. The youngest (Vivian Wu) marries Chiang Kai-shek while he's in the midst of turning Sun's Republic into a military dictatorship more concerned with killing Communists than fighting the Japanese that happen to be invading the country. Director Mabel Cheung introduces it as a fairy tale, three princesses getting the things they want (money, prestige and power, respectively) at the expense of the family bond. The second marriage estranges Maggie from her father (played by Jiang Wen), the third estranges Vivian and Maggie, and all the while Michelle tries to hold the family together, more for the control over the nation that their unity gives them as for any feeling of familial piety. The allegories are obvious (a nation split apart, first with Western influence (the girls are sent away to America as children) then with internal disputes (finally the three settle in three different Chinas: Hong Kong, Taiwan and the PRC itself). The film has the gorgeous sweep and cliched dramatics of Zhang Yimou's films from the same period, but with a harder edge, a radical sting lying just under the surface. The women are vibrant, dynamic and highly intelligent. Their men are buffoonish, pompous, and ineffectual. The men are limited, the women capable of anything.</div>
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One of our favorite films from this year's Seattle International Film Festival was the latest from Korean director Lee Kwangkuk. The follow-up to <i>Romance Joe</i>, which I saw and loved at the 2012 VIFF, and which remains one of the great undistributed-in-the-US films of recent years, Lee's films are somewhat reminiscent if his mentor Hong Sangsoo, but with important and interesting differences. I'm looking forward to watching <i>A Matter of Interpretation </i>again at VIFF, as I was only able to watch a mediocre screener at SIFF. Like the previous film, it's a romantic comedy lost amid a swirl of narrative experimentation. Rather than the nested flashbacks and films within films (or rather, ideas for films within films) of his first film, Lee here layers his story as a series of dreams (as in his 2013 short <i>Hard to Say</i>, which also played at VIFF), related by the various characters to each other as they attempt to puzzle them out. A grumpy actress, her lost ex-boyfriend, a friendly detective and his damaged sister form the web of enchanted melancholy, with the help of a little soju. Mike reviewed it for us in more detail at <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/05/21/siff-2015-a-matter-of-interpretation-lee-kwangkuk-2014/">Seattle Screen Scene</a>.</div>
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This is an index of my coverage of the 2015 Vancouver International Film Festival. Also be sure to check out the coverage we did over at <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/tag/viff-2015/">Seattle Screen Scene.</a><br />
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Previews:<br />
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<a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2015/09/viff-2015-introduction-and-proposed.html">Introduction and Proposed Schedule</a> - Sept. 04, 2015<br />
<a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2015/09/viff-2015-preview-part-one-office.html">Preview #1: <i>Office, Police Adjective, The Soong Sisters</i> and </a><i><a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2015/09/viff-2015-preview-part-one-office.html">A Matter of Interpretation</a> </i>- Sept. 21, 2015<br />
<a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2015/09/viff-2015-preview-part-two-big-list-of.html">Preview #2: A Big List of VIFF Movies</a> - Sept. 22, 2015<br />
<a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.ca/2015/09/viff-2015-preview-part-three-mirror-and.html">Preview #3: <i>The Mirror</i> and <i>Weekend</i></a> - Sept. 23, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.ca/2015/09/episode-70-viff-report-1.html">The George Sanders Show #70: VIFF Report #1</a> - Sept. 28, 2015<br />
<a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.ca/2015/09/viff-2015-first-four-days.html">VIFF 2015: The First Four Days</a> - Sept. 29, 2015<br />
<a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.ca/2015/10/episode-71-viff-report-2.html">The George Sanders Show #71: VIFF Report #2</a> - Oct. 3, 2015<br />
<i><a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2015/10/viff-2015-hou-hsiao-hsiens-assassin.html">The Assassin</a></i> (Hou, 15) - Oct. 9, 2015<br />
<a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2015/10/viff-2015-last-five-days.html">VIFF 2015: The Last Five Days</a> - Oct. 11, 2015<br />
<a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.com/2015/10/episode-72-je-tu-il-elle-le-bonheur-and.html">The George Sanders Show #72: VIFF Wrapup</a> - Oct 19, 2015<br />
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1. The Assassin<br />
2. The Forbidden Room<br />
3. Mountains May Depart<br />
4. Arabian Nights Part 2<br />
5. The Thoughts That Once We Had<br />
6. Li Wen at East Lake<br />
7. Kaili Blues<br />
8. A Matter of Interpretation<br />
9. Taxi<br />
10. Murmur of the Hearts<br />
11. Night Without Distance<br />
12. Right Now, Wrong Then<br />
13. Port of Call<br />
14. A Tale of Three Cities<br />
15. 45 Years<br />
16. My Golden Days<br />
17. The Pearl Button<br />
18. Topophilia<br />
19. Arabian Nights Part 3<br />
20. The Treasure<br />
21. Greed; Ghost Light<br />
22. The Exquisite Corpus<br />
23. Dead Slow Ahead<br />
24. Mustang<br />
25. Wonderous Boccaccio<br />
26. Magicarena<br />
27. Paradise<br />
28. What Happened in Past Dragon Year<br />
29. It's Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong<br />
30. The Dream of Shahrazad<br />
31. Alice in Earnestland<br />
32. Tandem<br />
33. Argentina<br />
34. Love is All<br />
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<br />Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15283666.post-75263047482989963502015-09-06T09:04:00.003-07:002015-09-06T09:04:58.012-07:00A Top 100 Films of All-TimeIt is time once again for a <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2013/03/top-films-of-all-time-index.html">Top 100 Films of All-Time</a> list. As I've done for the last few years, the first ten spots on the list comprise a hypothetical <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2012/08/last-notes-on-sight-sound-poll.html">Sight & Sound-style</a> ballot. We'll be discussing them on this week's episode of <a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.com/">The George Sanders Show</a>. This top ten is presented here in chronological order. The remaining 90 films were randomly selected from a consideration set of 902 films, which excluded films that made my Top Tens in <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-top-100-films-of-all-time-list.html">2012</a>, <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-top-100-list-for-2013.html">2013</a> and <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2014/09/a-top-100-films-of-all-time.html">2014</a>.<br />
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5. Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1954)</div>
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6. The Lion in Winter (Anthony Harvey, 1968)</div>
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7. A Touch of Zen (King Hu, 1971)</div>
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8. The Killer (John Woo, 1989)</div>
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9. The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese, 1993)</div>
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10. Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley, 2008)</div>
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11. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1943)</div>
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12. Lady Snowblood (Toshiya Fujita, 1973)</div>
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13. Fat Choi Spirit (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai, 2002)</div>
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14. The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1991)</div>
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15. Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Resnais, 2006)</div>
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16. Ivan the Terrible Part 2 (Sergei Eisenstein, 1958)</div>
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17. American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973)</div>
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18. The Midnight After (Fruit Chan, 2014)</div>
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19. The Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)</div>
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20. Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2007)<br />
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21. Eight Men Out (John Sayles, 1988)<br />
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22. Damsels in Distress (Whit Stillman, 2011)<br />
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23. Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977)<br />
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24. Wee Willie Winkie (John Ford, 1937)<br />
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25. The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973)<br />
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26. The Fate of Lee Khan (King Hu, 1973)<br />
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27. Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)<br />
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28. I'm Not There (Todd Haynes, 2007)<br />
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29. Dream of the Red Chamber (Li Han-hsiang, 1977)<br />
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30. Last Hurrah for Chivalry (John Woo, 1979)<br />
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31. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962)<br />
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32. Dune (David Lynch, 1984)<br />
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33. Starman (John Carpenter, 1984)<br />
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34. Wolf Children (Mamoru Hosada, 2012)<br />
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35. Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (Tsui Hark, 1983)<br />
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36. Applause (Rouben Mamoulian, 1929)<br />
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37. Cabaret (Bob Fosse, 1972)<br />
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38. One from the Heart (Francis Ford Coppola, 1981)<br />
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39. Fort Apache (John Ford, 1948)<br />
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40. Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973)<br />
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41. Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage, 1959)<br />
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42. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)<br />
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43. Mekong Hotel (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2012)<br />
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44. Run of the Arrow (Samuel Fuller, 1957)<br />
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45. The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock, 1938)<br />
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46. New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara, 1998)<br />
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47. Dodsworth (William Wyler, 1936)<br />
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48. Man on Fire (Tony Scott, 2004)<br />
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49. The Age of the Medici (Roberto Rossellini, 1972)<br />
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50. Bambi (David Hand, 1942)<br />
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51. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)<br />
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52. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodóvar, 1988)<br />
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53. 7 Women (John Ford, 1966)<br />
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54. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)<br />
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55. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005)<br />
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56. I am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964)<br />
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57. I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Turner, 1943)<br />
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58. Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa, 1965)<br />
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59. Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan (Chor Yuen, 1972)<br />
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60. Midnight (Mitchell Leisen, 1939)<br />
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61. They Live (John Carpenter, 1988)<br />
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62. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)<br />
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63. The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann, 1992)<br />
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64. Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2013)<br />
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65. What Price Glory (Raoul Walsh, 1926)<br />
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66. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)<br />
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67. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)<br />
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68. Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1996)<br />
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69. Pom Poko (Isao Takahata, 1994)<br />
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70. Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk, 1954)<br />
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71. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (John Lounsbery & Wolfgang Reitherman, 1977)<br />
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72. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)<br />
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73. The Sun Also Rises (Jiang Wen, 2007)<br />
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74. Dark Star (John Carpenter, 1974)<br />
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75. Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011)<br />
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76. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955)<br />
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77. Romance Joe (Lee Kwangkuk, 2011)<br />
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78. The French Connection (William Friedkin, 1971)<br />
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79. The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray, 1959)<br />
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80. The Royal Road (Jenni Olson, 2015)<br />
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81. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)<br />
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82. Louisiana Story (Robert Flaherty, 1948)<br />
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83. Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964)<br />
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84. The Thin Man (WS Van Dyke, 1934)<br />
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85. Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)<br />
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86. Golden Swallow (Chang Cheh, 1968)<br />
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87. Moonrise (Frank Borzage, 1948)<br />
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88. Porco Rosso (Hayao Miyazaki, 1992)<br />
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89. Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)<br />
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90. Godzilla (Ishirô Honda, 1954)<br />
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91. Two Rode Together (John Ford, 1961)<br />
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92. Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)<br />
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93. They Live By Night (Nicholas Ray, 1948)<br />
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94. Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012)<br />
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95. An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli, 1951)<br />
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96. Madame de. . . (Max Ophuls, 1953)<br />
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97. Thieves' Highway (Jules Dassin, 1949)<br />
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98. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)<br />
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99. The Wold Shadow (Stan Brakhage, 1972)<br />
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It is time once again for the <a href="http://www.viff.org/festival">Vancouver International Film Festival</a>. This will be my seventh year making the trip, <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2010/01/film-festival-index.html">every year since 2008</a> with the exception of 2011. Here at The End, I'll be reviewing as many movies as I can for as long as I can, probably in the same digest format I used <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2014/09/viff-2014-index.html">last year</a>. In a somewhat exciting development this year, the entire cast of <a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.com/">The George Sanders Show</a> will be attending the festival, and we plan on doing some on-the-spot recording while we're there as well (we also have a preview episode planned for the weekend before the festival begins). We'll have coverage of the festival over at <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/">Seattle Screen Scene</a> as well, even though Vancouver is obviously not Seattle (except in <i>In the Line of Duty 4 </i>and <i>Paycheck</i>, of course), because it's a reasonably short train ride and VIFF is better than <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2015/07/siff-2015-index.html">SIFF</a>.<br />
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Once again there's a great selection at VIFF, with several films from international festival circuit along with more obscure titles from the Dragons & Tigers series highlighting Asian cinema, the largest such program outside of Asia. Again the loss of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragons_and_Tigers_Award">Dragons & Tigers Award</a> is sadly felt, and last year's consolation award for New Directors is missing as well. It looks like the festival is simply repositioning itself as a forum for local film and television production, with an emphasis on the VIFF Industry sidebar conference, and away from the kind of festival that would seek out and fly-in directors from around the world, like former award-winners Hong Sangsoo, Jia Zhangke, Liu Jiayin, Kore-eda Hirokazu, and so on.<br />
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Because I'm only able to be there for 10 of the festival's 16 days, there are a handful of anticipated titles I won't be able to see. These include: <i>Arabian Nights, In the Shadow of Women, Son of Saul, Francofonia, Our Little Sister, Aferim! </i>and <i>Cemetery of Splendor</i>, as well as <i>The Royal Road</i>, which I saw at SIFF earlier this year and was hoping to see again. Fortunately I should be able to catch up with most of these at a later date, but missing out on the Miguel Gomes and Apichatpong Weerasethakul films in Vancouver is especially heart-breaking.<br />
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In addition to the podcast coming up in a couple of weeks, I'll be doing some pre-festival viewing again, trying to catch up on previous works by directors I'm hoping to see this year. Those titles are to-be-determined, but I'm certain Sylvia Chang will be involved.<br />
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This is a rough draft of the schedule I'm looking to follow at the 2015 festival. Showings that conflict with each other are listed without a space in-between, with the film I'm leaning toward attending listed first. There are a lot more conflicted time slots this year than in years past, which is either because there are fewer films I'm really excited about or more films I'm somewhat excited about, or both.<br />
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<b>Friday, September 25:</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f17035-paradise">Paradise</a> (Sina Ataeian Dena)<br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f15810-li-wen-at-east-lake">Li Wen at East Lake</a> (Luo Li)<br />
<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f15934-the-thoughts-that-once-we-had">The Thoughts that Once We Had</a> (Thom Andersen)<br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f15344-the-pearl-button">The Pearl Button</a> (Patricio Guzmán)<br />
<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f11645-a-tale-of-three-cities">A Tale of Three Cities</a> (Mabel Cheung)<br />
<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f15055-the-visit-an-alien-encounter">The Visit (An Alien Encounter)</a> (Michael Madsen)<br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f15700-a-matter-of-interpretation">A Matter of Interpretation</a> (Lee Kwangkuk)<br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f18844-the-sky-trembles-and-the-earth-is-afraid-and-the-two-eyes-are-not-brothers">The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers</a> (Ben Rivers)<br />
<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f15934-the-thoughts-that-once-we-had">The Thoughts that Once We Had</a> (Thom Andersen)<br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f19160-alice-in-earnestland">Alice in Earnestland</a> (Ahn Goocjin)<br />
<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f15342-the-club">The Club</a> (Pablo Larraín)<br />
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<b>Sunday, September 27:</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f17049-dead-slow-ahead">Dead Slow Ahead</a> (Mauro Herce)<br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f11645-a-tale-of-three-cities">A Tale of Three Cities</a> (Mabel Cheung)<br />
<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f15080-drunk-stoned-brilliant-dead-the-story-of-the-national-lampoon">Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead</a> (Douglas Tirola)<br />
<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f14905-entertainment">Entertainment</a> (Rick Alverson)<br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f14890-beeba-boys">Beeba Boys</a> (Deepa Mehta)<br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f14884-the-forbidden-room">The Forbidden Room</a> (Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson)<br />
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<b>Monday, September 28:</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f15912-port-of-call">Port of Call</a> (Philip Yung)<br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f17903-its-already-tomorrow-in-hong-kong">It's Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong</a> (Emily Ting)<br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f18684-right-now-wrong-then">Right Now, Wrong Then</a> (Hong Sangsoo)<br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f15360-erbarme-dich--matth%C3%A4us-passion-stories">Erbarme dich - Matthäus Passion Stories</a> (Ramón Gieling)<br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f19167-gonin-saga">Gonin Saga</a> (Ishii Takashi)<br />
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<b>Tuesday, September 29:</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f15872-love-is-all-100-years-of-love-courtship">Love is All/Exquisite Corpus</a> (Kim Longinotto/Peter Tscherkassky)<br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f17641-from-scotland-with-love">From Scotland with Love</a> (Virginia Heath)<br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f17031-topophilia">Topophilia</a> (Peter Bo Rappmund)<br />
<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f17049-dead-slow-ahead">Dead Slow Ahead</a> (Mauro Herce)<br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f19099-tharlo">Tharlo</a> (Pema Tseden)<br />
<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f18470-31st-october">31st October</a> (Shivaji Lotan Patil)<br />
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<b>Wednesday, September 30:</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f15055-the-visit-an-alien-encounter">The Visit (An Alien Encounter)</a> (Michael Madsen)<br />
<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f19183-lost-and-beautiful">Lost and Beautiful</a> (Pietro Marcello)<br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f19107-mr-zhang-believes">Mr. Zhang Believes</a> (Qiu Jiongjiong)<br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f18608-kaili-blues">Kaili Blues</a> (Bi Gan)<br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f15157-the-assassin">The Assassin</a> (Hou Hsiao-hsien)<br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f19070-three-stories-of-love">Three Stories of Love</a> (Hashiguchi Ryosuke)<br />
<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f15217-the-lobster">The Lobster</a> (Yorgos Lanthimos)<br />
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<b>Thursday, October 1:</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f12160-wondrous-boccaccio">Wondrous Boccaccio</a> (Paolo & Vittorio Taviani)<br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f15290-jafar-panahis-taxi">Taxi</a> (Jafar Panahi)<br />
<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f10550-argentina">Argentina</a> (Carlos Saura)<br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f12018-magicarena">Magicarena</a> (Andrea Prandstraller & Niccolò Bruna)<br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f15148-the-dream-of-shahrazad">The Dream of Shahrazad</a> (François Verster)<br />
<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f16623-paulina">Paulina</a> (Santiago Mitre)<br />
<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f16630-embrace-of-the-serpent">Embrace of the Serpent</a> (Ciro Guerra)<br />
<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f16525-disorder">Disorder</a> (Alice Wincour)<br />
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<b>Friday, October 2:</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f15911-murmur-of-the-hearts">Murmur of the Hearts</a> (Sylvia Chang)<br />
<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f19070-three-stories-of-love">Three Stories of Love</a> (Hashiguchi Ryosuke)<br />
<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f14965-dheepan">Dheepan</a> (Jaques Audiard)<br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f16254-monty-python-the-meaning-of-live">Monty Python: The Meaning of Live</a> (Roger Graef & James Rogan)<br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f15155-my-golden-days">My Golden Days</a> (Arnaud Desplechin)<br />
<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f15211-louder-than-bombs">Louder than Bombs</a> (Joachim Trier)<br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f15215-high-rise">High-Rise</a> (Ben Wheatley)<br />
<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f17948-london-road">London Road</a> (Rufus Norris)<br />
<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f19069-100-yen-love">100 Yen Love</a> (Take Masaharu)<br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f19142-aaaaaaaah">AAAAAAAAH!</a> (Steve Oram)<br />
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<b>Saturday, October 3:</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f15171-45-years">45 Years</a> (Andrew Haigh)<br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f16332-into-the-forest">Into the Forest</a> (Patricia Rozema)<br />
<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f15290-jafar-panahis-taxi">Taxi</a> (Jafar Panahi)<br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f16537-the-treasure">The Treasure</a> (Corneliu Porumboiu)<br />
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<b>Sunday, October 4:</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f15032-the-summer-of-sangail%C3%A9">The Summer of Sangailé</a> (Alanté Kavaïté)<br />
<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f18827-chevalier">Chevalier</a> (Athina Rachel Tsangari)<br />
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<a href="http://www.viff.org/festival/films/f16427-mountains-may-depart">Mountains May Depart</a> (Jia Zhangke)<br />
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Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15283666.post-16508287343353374432015-08-24T17:09:00.001-07:002015-08-24T17:09:13.121-07:00This Week in Rankings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Since the last update we actually managed to put out a couple episode of <a href="http://theyshotpictures.com/">They Shot Pictures</a>. One on <a href="http://theyshotpictures.com/they-shot-pictures-ep37-preston-sturges/">Preston Sturges</a> and another on <a href="http://theyshotpictures.com/episode-38-john-woo/">John Woo</a>. I had reviews of Woo's <i><a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/08/20/princess-chang-ping-john-woo-1976/">Princess Chang Ping</a> </i>at <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/">Seattle Screen Scene</a> and Jackie Chan's <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2015/08/running-out-of-karma-jackie-chans.html"><i>Project A </i>films</a> here at The End. We've also had episodes of <a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.com/">The George Sanders Show</a> on <a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.com/2015/08/episode-66-look-of-silence-and-sound-of.html"><i>The Look of Silence</i> and <i>The Sound of Music</i></a> and <a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.com/2015/08/episode-67-man-of-aran-and-neo-tokyo.html"><i>Man of Aran</i> and <i>Neo Tokyo</i></a>.<br />
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These are the movies I've watched and rewatched over the last few weeks and where they place on my <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2006/07/movies-of-year-big-list-1-1915-1949.html">year-by-year rankings</a>. Short comments or capsule reviews for them can be found over at <a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/">letterboxd</a>.<br />
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Man of Aran (Robert Flaherty) - 3, 1934<br />
The Sound of Music (Robert Wise) - 31, 1965<br />
The Young Dragons (John Woo) - 17, 1974<br />
The Dragon Tamers (John Woo) - 22, 1975<br />
Princess Chang Ping (John Woo) - 16, 1976<br />
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Last Hurrah for Chivalry (John Woo) - 12, 1979<br />
Laughing Times (John Woo) - 32, 1980<br />
Neo Tokyo (Rintaro, Yoshiaki Kawajiri & Katsuhiro Ōtomo) - 16, 1987<br />
The Killer (John Woo) - 1, 1989<br />
Just Heroes (John Woo & Wu Ma) - 49, 1989<br />
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Bullet in the Head (John Woo) - 4, 1990<br />
Hard-Boiled (John Woo) - 3, 1992<br />
Hard Target (John Woo) - 46, 1993<br />
Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee) - 19, 1995<br />
Broken Arrow (John Woo) - 30, 1996<br />
Face/Off (John Woo) - 30, 1997<br />
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Windtalkers (John Woo) - 14, 2002<br />
Paycheck (John Woo) - 27, 2003<br />
Red Cliff (John Woo) - 6, 2008<br />
Oki's Movie (Hong Sangsoo) - 1, 2010<br />
Reign of Assassins (Su Chao-pin) - 48, 2010<br />
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The Crossing Part One (John Woo) - 11, 2014<br />
The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer) - 33, 2014<br />
Shaun the Sheep Movie (Mark Burton & Richard Starzak) - 16, 2015<br />
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (Christopher McQuarrie) - 20, 2015<br />
Ant-Man (Peyton Reed) - 23, 2015Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15283666.post-42509379323496269082015-08-02T13:08:00.002-07:002015-08-02T13:10:00.722-07:00Running Out of Karma: Jackie Chan's Project A and Project A 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">Running Out of Karma is my on-going series on Johnnie To, Hong Kong and Chinese-language cinema. <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2013/11/running-out-of-karma-index.html" style="color: #11295f; text-decoration: none;">Here is an index</a>.</i><br />
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<i style="font-weight: bold;">Project A</i> (Jackie Chan, 1983)</div>
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Comparing <i>Project A</i> to Sammo Hung's <i><a href="http://theyshotpictures.com/they-shot-pictures-ep17-sammo-hung/">Wheels on Meals</a>,</i> released the next year in 1984, shows some stark differences between Sammo and Jackie Chan as directors. Both films are swashbuckling adventures with ridiculously athletic fights and stunts, slapstick comedy and a real obsession with beating the hell out of Jackie Chan. Both star Chan, Sammo and Yuen Biao. Sammo's film though tells a real story, about immigrants in Barcelona (granted, a Barcelona where everyone speaks Cantonese) that find themselves caught up in what we slowly realize is a fairy tale: three musketeers rescuing a princess from a castle. It isn't as socially conscious as Hung's <i><a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2013/06/summer-of-sammo-pedicab-driver.html">Pedicab Driver</a> </i>(a great film which is now available to stream on Warner Archive Instant), but that little bit of grounding makes the escalating fantasy even more effective. It's packed with purely visual humor (the split screen gag in the opening moments, Sammo's variety of hats and Yuen's entire wardrobe) and moments of sublime absurdity (Wu Ma's "guy who thinks he's a clock"). <i>Wheels on Meals</i> is a true ensemble film, with Yuen and Chan sharing the lead and Sammo in support, like he is in almost all of his films from this period.<br />
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<i>Project A</i>, however, is a Jackie Chan-starring vehicle all the way. There are long stretches of the film where the other two Little Fortunes are entirely absent (Yuen has a large role as a rival cop in the first half of the film, then mostly disappears, Sammo pops in and out for some scoundrelly awesomeness). Chan is the prime mover of the plot and the true hero of a very thin story about Hong Kong's Coast Guard fighting a gang of pirates at some very unspecific time in the past. The humor is even more broad and less inventive, wild overacting (even by Hong Kong standards) and literal pie-in-the-face jokes (well, spaghetti-in-the-face). The plot barely makes sense, little more than an excuse for fights, sketchy gags and chase sequences (and of course a contextually nonsensical but nonetheless kind of stirring patriotic dressing-down Chan gives his British superior). The actions scenes are, of course, amazing: the coordination of the fights with Chan and Sammo (side by side, for the moment) is unbelievably fast and intricate, and these are some of Chan's most famous and inventive chases, especially the central bicycle chase, with Chan's exasperation toward the useless female lead (another unfortunate Chan trope) and culminating in a Harold Lloyd homage. But even the finale becomes overcrowded with extras and effects. The climax of <i>Wheels on Meals</i> gives each hero a highlighted fight, we see the differences in their personalities reflected in their fighting styles: Sammo's silliness, Yuen's gracefulness and speed, Chan's masochism. In <i>Project A</i>, the climax is a series of mistaken identity gags (which are, to be fair, pretty funny) followed by an all-too-brief mass fight punctuated by the repeated use of hand grenades (some brilliant falling stunts by Sammo here). The three unite to gang up on the villain Dick Wei (terrific here, wish he had a bigger part), but even in this fight, it's technology that wins as much as anything else.<br />
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<i style="font-weight: bold;">Project A 2</i> (Jackie Chan, 1987)</div>
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The sequel is even more Chan-focused, as the other Little Fortunes are absent (they were off in the jungle making <i><a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2013/05/on-eastern-condors.html">Eastern Condors</a></i>) and Jackie is joined by a trio of women played by Maggie Cheung, Carina Lau and Rosamund Kwan, in an apparent nod to Tsui Hark's <i><a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2013/11/running-out-of-karma-tsui-harks-peking.html">Peking Opera Blues</a></i> and its trio of Brigitte Lin, Sally Yeh and Cherie Chung. The film picks up right at the end of the first one, with surviving members of the pirate gang vowing revenge on Chan. They end up poor and desperate in Hong Kong where they join the various factions trying to kill our hero. These include a corrupt cop with a penchant for inflating his reputation with fake arrests and a gambling den magnate/gang leader. The women are part of Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary group, and they try to get Chan to join up as well. As always, Chan refuses to take a political stand, rather than supporting one government or another he sticks to a personal ideology of honesty and righteousness. He's against corruption, aids the sick and helpless and protects the innocent. There's nothing wrong with any of those things, of course, but one can't help notice that this political vagueness also makes his films palatable for the widest possible audience, whereas more committed films like Tsui's, in which the female revolutionaries are the heroes and prime movers of the plot, make an unmistakeable political argument threatening to the powers that be.<br />
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Chan's political vagueness aside, I think this is actually even better than the first film. It expands and perfects his desire to pay homage to old Hollywood classics, with an extended sequence in Cheung's apartment that recalls <i>A Night at the Opera</i> (as well as a similar, but smaller-scale, sequence in Tsui's <i>Shanghai Blues</i>) and the finale ups the Harold Lloyd sequence from the first film by recreating Buster Keaton's most famous stunt (from <i>Steamboat Bill, Jr.</i>) The best sequence though is an extended chase with Chan and his rival cop handcuffed together and attacked by the ax-throwing pirate gang that starts in a restaurant and extends across the streets of the city. This is the pinnacle of Chan's slapstick kung fu style, avoiding the brutal masochism of <i>Police Story (</i>made between these two films in 1985), in which the light-hearted comic hero Jackie gradually comes undone at the abuse of his body perpetrated by the villains and his own choreographic imagination. The conclusion of that film is violent and cruel, as the hero resorts to a pure expression of murderous rage against his (captured and defenseless) enemy, part of a series of Hong Kong films in the 80s that seem to justify police vigilantism and brutality, also a popular trope in American cop films of the same era. As Chan's career went on, the cartoon of the <i>Project A</i> films became his default persona while the <i>Police Story</i> darkness, a natural outgrowth of the masochism of his early films, dissipated. But aside from a spark here and there, the films were rarely so good, becoming increasingly content to rest on audacity rather than ingenuity for his stunt sequences and awkward mugging for his comedy. And as his physical skills have declined with age, the hollowness of his work has become ever more apparent. Unlike <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2014/02/happy-birthday-tsui-hark.html">Tsui Hark</a>, or <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2014/06/lau-kar-leung.html">Lau Kar-leung</a>, he's been unable to extend his directorial career into old age with any kind of success. He never really had anything to say anyway.</div>
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Over the past month or so I wrote about <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2015/07/on-king-arthur.html"><i>King Arthur</i></a> here at The End and a bunch of movies over at <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/">Seattle Screen Scene</a>, including <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/07/08/christmas-in-july-preston-sturges-1940/"><i>Christmas in July</i></a>, <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/07/16/two-romantic-comedies-trainwreck-judd-apatow-2015-and-the-lady-eve-preston-sturges-1941/"><i>Trainwreck</i> and <i>The Lady Eve</i></a>, <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/07/23/a-hard-day-kim-seonghun-2014-unexpected-kris-swanberg-2015/"><i>A Hard Day </i>and <i>Unexpected</i></a>, and a quartet of <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2013/11/running-out-of-karma-index.html">Running Out of Karma</a> movies: <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/07/30/wild-city-ringo-lam-2015/"><i>Wild City</i></a>; <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/07/02/yes-madam-corey-yuen-1985/"><i>Yes, Madam!</i></a>; <i><a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/08/01/the-heroic-trio-johnnie-to-1993/">The Heroic Trio</a></i>, and <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/06/26/a-better-tomorrow-john-woo-1986/"><i>A Better Tomorrow</i></a>.<br />
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We discussed that last one as well on <a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.com/">The George Sanders Show</a>, <a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.com/2015/06/episode-63-blackhat-and-better-tomorrow.html">along with <i>Blackhat</i></a>. We also did shows on <a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.com/2015/07/episode-64-summer-interlude-and-songs.html"><i>Summer Interlude</i> and <i>Songs from the Second Floor</i></a> and <a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.com/2015/07/episode-65-green-ray-and-x-man-with-x.html"><i>The Green Ray</i> and <i>X: The Man with X-Ray Eyes</i></a>. We have a new episode of <a href="http://theyshotpictures.com/">They Shot Pictures</a> on Preston Sturges ready to go, it should be making it's way onto the internet any time now. And, following tradition, I made a bunch of <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-best-2015-movies-of-year-so-far.html">Best of the Year So Far</a> lists.<br />
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I also went on a bit of an Endy Awards kick, handing out fake cat statues to films from the years <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2015/07/1993-endy-awards.html">1993</a>, <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2015/07/1995-endy-awards.html">1995</a>, <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2015/07/1996-endy-awards.html">1996</a> and <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2015/07/1997-endy-awards.html">1997</a>. I also updated the years 1994 and 1998-2014, changing some nominees and winners based on new movies I've seen since the last revision in March. You can find all of those, as always, in the <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2009/01/endy-awards-index.html">Endy Awards Index</a>.<br />
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These are the movies I've watched and rewatched over the last few weeks and where they place on my <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2006/07/movies-of-year-big-list-1-1915-1949.html">year-by-year rankings</a>. Short comments or capsule reviews for them can be found over at <a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/">letterboxd</a>.<br />
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The Power and the Glory (William K. Howard) - 33, 1933<br />
The Good Fairy (William Wyler) - 11, 1935<br />
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz) - 2, 1938<br />
Christmas in July (Preston Sturges) - 4, 1940<br />
The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges) - 20, 1940<br />
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The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges) - 2, 1941<br />
Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges) - 11, 1941<br />
The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges) - 5, 1942<br />
Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges) - 8, 1944<br />
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges) - 12, 1944<br />
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Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges) - 5, 1948<br />
Summer Interlude (Ingmar Bergman) - 31, 1951<br />
X: The Man with X-Ray Eyes (Roger Corman) - 24, 1963<br />
Temple of the Red Lotus (Hsu Tsung-hung) - 27, 1965<br />
The Story of a Discharged Prisoner (Patrick Lung-kong) - 21, 1967<br />
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A Better Tomorrow (John Woo) - 1, 1986<br />
The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer) - 2, 1986<br />
Middlemarch (Anthony Page) - 40, 1994<br />
Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson) - 23, 2000<br />
Emma (Jim O'Hanlon) - 27, 2009<br />
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Blackhat (Michael Mann) - 3, 2015<br />
Wild City (Ringo Lam) - 12, 2015<br />
Trainwreck (Judd Apatow) - 13, 2015<br />
7 Days in Hell (Jake Szymanski) - 17, 2015Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15283666.post-26688830911248687772015-07-22T16:05:00.000-07:002015-07-22T16:05:06.652-07:001993 Endy Awards<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
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These are the 1993 Endy Awards, wherein I pretend to give out maneki-neko statues to the best in that year in film. Awards for many other years can be found in the <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2009/01/endy-awards-index.html">Endy Awards Index</a>. Eligibility is determined by imdb date and by whether or not I've seen the movie in question. Nominees are listed in alphabetical order and the winners are <b>bolded</b>. And the Endy goes to. . .<br />
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1. The Age of Innocence<br />
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2. <b>Richard Linklater, Dazed and Confused</b><br />
3. Jane Campion, The Piano<br />
4. Hou Hsiao-hsien, The Puppetmaster<br />
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Linklater's chronicle of the last day of school/first night of summer of a bygone era grows as it recedes in the memory. 20 years ago it was a goofy bit of comic nostalgia, an excuse to laugh at 70s fashions and the importance of Aerosmith. But the older I get, the better it gets.<br />
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1. Christina Ricci, Addams Family Values<br />
2. Winona Ryder, The Age of Innocence<br />
3. <b>Josephine Siao, Fong Sai-yuk</b><br />
4. Joey Wang, Green Snake<br />
5. Emma Thompson, Much Ado About Nothing<br />
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The Supporting Actress group this year is. . . less good. But Josephine Siao is a powerhouse. The best supporting performance in a kung fu comedy, ever.</div>
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1. <b>Richard Linlater, Dazed and Confused</b><br />
2. Danny Rubin & Harold Ramis, Groundhog Day<br />
3. Jane Campion, The Piano<br />
4. Chu Tien-wen & Wu Nien-jen, The Puppetmaster<br />
5. Krzysztof Kieślowski & Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Three Colors: Blue</div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">1. Jay Cocks & Martin Scorsese, The Age of Innocence</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">2. Lillian Lee & Tsui Hark, Green Snake</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">3. Steven Zaillian, Searching for Bobby Fischer</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">4. <b>John Guare, Six Degrees of Separation</b></span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">5. Robert Altman & Frank Barhydt, Short Cuts</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">1. Green Snake (Tsui Hark)</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">2. Iron Monkey (Yuen Woo-ping)</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">3. The Legend of Fong Sai-Yuk (Corey Yuen)</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">4. The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-hsien)</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">5. <b>Three Colors: Blue (</b></span><b>Krzysztof Kieślowski)</b><br />
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<i>Three Colors: Blue</i> was the first art film I ever saw that made me want to watch and rewatch it until I took it all it and felt I really understood what was happening and why. As such, it's probably overrated in my memory. I can't tell and I don't care: these are my fake movie awards.</div>
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1. Latcho Drom (Tony Gatlif)<br />
2. <b>The War Room (Chris Hegedus & D.A. Pennebaker)</b><br />
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1. <b>The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick)</b><br />
2. Ninja Scroll (Yoshiaki Kawajiri)</div>
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1. The Blue Kite (Tian Zhuangzhuang)<br />
2. Farewell My Concubine (Chen Kaige)<br />
3. Naked (Mike Leigh)<br />
4. Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano)<br />
5. <b>32 Short Films About Glenn Gould (François Girard)</b><br />
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Also receiving votes: <i>Stalingrad</i> (Joseph Vilsmaier), <i>Madadayo</i> (Akira Kurosawa), <i>Surviving Desire</i> (Hal Hartley), <i>The Scent of Green Papaya</i> (Tran Anh Hung), <i>Smoking/No Smoking</i> (Alain Resnais), <i>Car diarrio</i> (Nanni Moretti), <i>Blue</i> (Derek Jarman), <i>Fearless</i> (Peter Weir), and <i>M. Butterfly</i> (David Cronenberg).</div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">1. <b>The Age of Innocence</b></span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">2. Dazed and Confused</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">3. The Piano</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">4. The Puppetmaster</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">5. Three Colors: Blue</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Those dissolves.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">1. </span>The Age of Innocence<br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">2. Green Snake</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">3. The Piano</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">4. Schindler's List</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">5. <b>Three Colors: Blue</b></span></div>
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1. The Age of Innocence<br />
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Mant vs. Maggie Cheung. Mant wins.<br />
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1. <b>Army of Darkness</b><br />
2. The Bride with White Hair<br />
3. The Eagle Shooting Heroes<br />
4. Executioners<br />
5. Matinee<br />
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3. <b>Jurassic Park</b><br />
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Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15283666.post-64259770786657320392015-07-19T15:53:00.002-07:002015-07-19T15:54:24.421-07:001995 Endy Awards<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
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These are the 1995 Endy Awards, wherein I pretend to give out maneki-neko statues to the best in that year in film. Awards for many other years can be found in the <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2009/01/endy-awards-index.html">Endy Awards Index</a>. Eligibility is determined by imdb date and by whether or not I've seen the movie in question. Nominees are listed in alphabetical order and the winners are <b>bolded</b>. And the Endy goes to. . .<br />
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2. <b>Dead Man</b><br />
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1. <b>Jim Jarmusch, Dead Man</b><br />
2. Wong Kar-wai, Fallen Angels<br />
3. Hou Hsiao-hsien, Good Men, Good Women<br />
4. Tsui Hark, Love in the Time of Twilight<br />
5. Yoshifumi Kondō, Whisper of the Heart<br />
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Very close race for the top prize this year, as <i>Good Men, Good Women </i>might be Hou Hsiao-hsien's best movie. But <i>Dead Man </i>is simply one of my all-time favorite films. We discussed it way back on <a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.com/2013/07/episode-two-dead-man-and-ride-lonesome.html">Episode 2 of The George Sanders Show</a>.</div>
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1. Johnny Depp, Dead Man<br />
2. Takeshi Kaneshiro, Fallen Angels<br />
3. Robert deNiro, Heat<br />
4. <b>Colin Firth, Pride & Prejudice</b><br />
5. Morgan Freeman, Se7en<br />
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This is DeNiro's first Endy nomination, but I suspect it won't be his last. Depp previously won for 2003's <i>Pirates of the Caribbean</i>. Firth's performance is deservedly considered definitive. For those who say it a performance in a TV miniseries and not a film, I say "Pffffbbbbtt."<br />
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Also receiving votes: Ralph Fiennes (<i>Strange Days</i>), Leslie Cheung (<i>The Chinese Feast</i>), Denzel Washington (<i>Devil in a Blue Dress</i> and <i>Crimson Tide</i>), Ian McKellen (<i>Richard III</i>), Stephen Chow (<i>A Chinese Odyssey</i>), Chris Farley (<i>Tommy Boy</i>) and Lau Ching-wan (<i>Loving You</i>).<br />
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1. Alicia Silverstone, Clueless<br />
2. Annie Shizuka Inoh, Good Men, Good Women<br />
3. <b>Parker Posey, Party Girl</b><br />
4. Jennifer Ehle, Pride & Prejudice<br />
5. Nicole Kidman, To Die For<br />
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Also receiving votes: Julienne Moore (<i>Safe</i>), Charlie Yeung (<i>Love in the Time of Twilight</i>), Julie Delpy (<i>Before Sunrise</i>), Emma Thompson (<i>Sense and Sensibility</i>), Lili Taylor (<i>The Addiction</i>), Catherine Keener (<i>Living in Oblivion</i>), Jennifer Jason Leigh (<i>Georgia</i>), Susan Sarandon (<i>Dead Man Walking</i>) and Elizabeth Shue (<i>Leaving Las Vegas</i>).<br />
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1. Kenny Bee, The Chinese Feast<br />
2. Dominique Pinon, City of Lost Children<br />
3. <b>Gary Farmer, Dead Man</b><br />
4. Don Cheadle, Devil in a Blue Dress<br />
5. Chris Eigeman, Kicking and Screaming</div>
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1. Christine Taylor, The Brady Bunch Movie<br />
2. Charlie Yeung, Fallen Angels<br />
3. Chloë Sevigny, Kids<br />
4. <b>Mira Sorvino, Mighty Aphrodite</b><br />
5. Gina Gershon, Showgirls<br />
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Farmer is an obvious pick, of course. In Supporting Actress, this is one of the rare times when the Oscars and I agree on an acting winner. Sorvino really is quite wonderful, it's a shame she never got another role half this good again.</div>
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1. <b>Jim Jarmusch, Dead Man</b><br />
2. Wong Kar-wai, Fallen Angels<br />
3. Noah Baumbach, Kicking and Screaming<br />
4. Tsui Hark & Sharon Hui, Love in the Time of Twilight<br />
5. Daisy von Scherler Meyer & Harry Birckmeyer, Party Girl<br />
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">1. Amy Heckerling, Clueless</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">3. Andrew Davies, Pride & Prejudice</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">That's right: <i>three</i> Jane Austen adaptations. There's a fourth among my Unseen Film nominees as well. There was something in the air in 1995. But the Endy goes to Chu Tien-wen, who previously won in 1997 for <i>Flowers of Shanghai</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">2. Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-wai)</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">3. <b>Good Men, Good Women (Hou Hsiao-hsien)</b></span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">4. Love in the Time of Twilight (Tsui Hark)</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">5. Whisper of the Heart (</span>Yoshifumi Kondō)<br />
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1. <b>Ballet (Frederick Wiseman)</b><br />
2. The Celluloid Closet (Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman)<br />
3. Unzipped (Douglas Keeve)<br />
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This is Wiseman's second win and eighth nomination. He won in 2014 for <i>National Gallery</i>.<br />
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1. Ghost in the Shell (Mamoru Oshii)<br />
2. <b>Toy Story (John Lasseter)</b></div>
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1. La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol)<br />
2. Mabarosi (Koreeda Hirokazu)<br />
3. Persuasion (Roger Michell)<br />
4. <b>Underground (Emir Kusturica)</b><br />
5. The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi)<br />
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Also receiving votes: <i>Ulysses's Gaze</i> (Theo Angelopolous), <i>Love Letter</i> (Shunji Iwai), <i>La Haine</i> (Mathieu Kassovitz), <i>Cyclo</i> (Tran Anh Hung), <i>The Flower of My Secret</i> (Pedro Almodóvar), and <i>Village of the Damned</i> (John Carpenter).</div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">1. <b>The Blade</b></span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">2. Dead Man</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">3. Fallen Angels</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">4. Good Men, Good Women</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">5. Heat</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Tsui Hark reaches the apotheosis of the fast-cutting action movie, a full decade before Hollywood begins to (badly) imitate the style.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">1. The Blade</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">2. Casa de Lava</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">3. Dead Man</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">4. <b>Fallen Angels</b></span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">5. Good Men, Good Women</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">What can I say? I'm a sucker for fish-eyes.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Also receiving votes: <i>Seven, Dead Presidents, Strange Days, City of Lost Children, Heat, Nixon, Shanghai Triad, Ballet, Sense and Sensibility</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">1. The Blade</span><br />
2. Casino<br />
3. City of Lost Children<br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">4. <b>Dead Man</b></span><br />
5. Pride & Prejudice</div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">1. The Blade</span><br />
2. <b>Casino</b><br />
3. A Chinese Odyssey<br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">4. Dead Man</span><br />
5. Sense & Sensibility<br />
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Everything Sharon Stone wears.<br />
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">1. The Blade</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">2. Casino</span><br />
3. City of Lost Children<br />
4. <b>A Chinese Odyssey</b><br />
5. Species</div>
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1. City of Lost Children<br />
2. <b>Dead Man</b><br />
3. Friday<br />
4. Toy Story<br />
5. Whisper of the Heart</div>
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1. <b>Clueless</b><br />
2. Dead Presidents<br />
3. Devil in a Blue Dress<br />
4. Kicking and Screaming<br />
5. Kids<br />
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If it was "Adapted Song" this would easily go to <i>Whisper of the Heart</i>, as it is, "Country Roads" is almost enough to get it nominated in both categories.</div>
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1. Casino<br />
2. Dead Man<br />
3. <b>Good Men, Good Women</b><br />
4. Heat<br />
5. Seven<br />
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That telephone ringing.</div>
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This is an index of my coverage of the 2015 Seattle International Film Festival. The reviews are all at <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/tag/siff-2015/">Seattle Screen Scene</a>, the brief comments are on <a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/tag/siff2015/films/">letterboxd</a>.<br />
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<i><a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/05/14/siff-2015-temporary-family-cheuk-wan-chi-2014/">Temporary Family</a></i> (Cheuk Wan-chi, 2014) - May 14, 2015<br />
<i><a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/05/14/siff-2015-snow-on-the-blades-setsuro-wakamatsu-2014/">Snow on the Blades</a></i> (Setsurô Wakamatsu, 2014) - May 14, 2015<br />
<i><a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/05/18/siff-2015-report-1-results-back-to-the-soil-beyond-zero-1914-1918-natural-history/">Results</a> </i>(Andrew Bujalski, 2015) - May 18, 2015<br />
<i><a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/05/18/siff-2015-report-1-results-back-to-the-soil-beyond-zero-1914-1918-natural-history/">Back to the Soil</a> </i>(Bill Morrison, 2014) - May 18, 2015<br />
<i><a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/05/18/siff-2015-report-1-results-back-to-the-soil-beyond-zero-1914-1918-natural-history/">Beyond Zero 1914-1918</a> </i>(Bill Morrison, 2014) - May 18, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/05/22/siff-2015-report-2-the-coffin-in-the-mountain-haemoo-the-color-of-pomegranates-a-hard-day/"><i>The Coffin in the Mountain</i></a> (Xin Yukun, 2014) - May 22, 2015<br />
<a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/05/22/siff-2015-report-2-the-coffin-in-the-mountain-haemoo-the-color-of-pomegranates-a-hard-day/"><i>Haemoo</i></a> (Shim Sungbo, 2014) - May 22, 2015<br />
<a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/05/22/siff-2015-report-2-the-coffin-in-the-mountain-haemoo-the-color-of-pomegranates-a-hard-day/"><i>The Color of Pomegranates</i></a> (Segei Parajanov, 1968) - May 22, 2015<br />
<a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/05/22/siff-2015-report-2-the-coffin-in-the-mountain-haemoo-the-color-of-pomegranates-a-hard-day/"><i>A Hard Day</i></a> (Kim Seonghoon, 2014) - May 22, 2015<br />
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<i><a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/05/29/siff-2015-report-3-overheard-3-dreams-rewired-the-apu-trilogy-mistress-america-unexpected-a-matter-of-interpretation-dearest/">Overheard 3</a></i> (Alan Mak & Felix Chong, 2014) - May 29, 2015<br />
<i><a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/05/29/siff-2015-report-3-overheard-3-dreams-rewired-the-apu-trilogy-mistress-america-unexpected-a-matter-of-interpretation-dearest/">Dreams Rewired</a> </i>(Manu Luksch, Thomas Tode & Martin Reinhart) - May 29, 2015<br />
<a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/05/29/siff-2015-report-3-overheard-3-dreams-rewired-the-apu-trilogy-mistress-america-unexpected-a-matter-of-interpretation-dearest/">The Apu Trilogy</a><i> </i>(Satyajit Ray, 1955-59) - May 29, 2015<br />
<i><a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/05/29/siff-2015-report-3-overheard-3-dreams-rewired-the-apu-trilogy-mistress-america-unexpected-a-matter-of-interpretation-dearest/">Mistress America</a> </i>(Noah Baumbach, 2015) - May 29, 2015<br />
<i><a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/05/29/siff-2015-report-3-overheard-3-dreams-rewired-the-apu-trilogy-mistress-america-unexpected-a-matter-of-interpretation-dearest/">Unexpected</a></i> (Kris Swanberg, 2015) - May 29, 2015<br />
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<i><a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/05/29/siff-2015-report-3-overheard-3-dreams-rewired-the-apu-trilogy-mistress-america-unexpected-a-matter-of-interpretation-dearest/">A Matter of Interpretation</a></i> (Lee Kwangkuk, 2014) - May 29, 2015<br />
<i><a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/05/29/siff-2015-report-3-overheard-3-dreams-rewired-the-apu-trilogy-mistress-america-unexpected-a-matter-of-interpretation-dearest/">Dearest</a></i> (Peter Chan, 2014) - May 29, 2015<br />
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<i><a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/when-marnie-was-there/">When Marnie Was There</a></i> (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2014) - May 05, 2015<br />
<i><a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/virtuosity-2014/">Virtuosity</a></i> (Christopher Wilkinson, 2014) - May 10, 2015<br />
<i><a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/the-royal-road/">The Royal Road</a></i> (Jenni Olson, 2015) - May 30, 2015<br />
<i><a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/phoenix-2014/">Phoenix</a></i> (Christian Petzold, 2014) - May 31, 2015<br />
<i><a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/the-teachers-diary-2014/">The Teacher's Diary</a> </i>(Nithiwat Tharathorn, 2014) - Jun 01, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/gertie-the-dinosaur/">Saved from the Flames</a> (Compilation hosted by Serge Bromberg) - Jun 02, 2015<br />
<i><a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/cave-of-the-spider-women/">Cave of the Spider-Women</a></i> (Dan Duyu, 1927) - Jun 03, 2015<br />
<i><a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/cave-of-the-silken-web/">Cave of the Silken Web</a></i> (Ho Meng-hua, 1967) - Jun 03, 2015<br />
<i><a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/eden-2014-1/">Eden</a></i> (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2014) - Jun 04, 2015<br />
<i><a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/que-viva-mexico/">¡Que viva México!</a></i> (Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov, 1932) - Jun 07, 2015<br />
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1. Gina Gershon, Bound<br />
2. Maggie Cheung, Comrades, Almost a Love Story<br />
3. <b>Frances McDormand, Fargo</b><br />
4. Lili Taylor, I Shot Andy Warhol<br />
5. Maggie Cheung, Irma Vep<br />
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Disaster as Maggie Cheung becomes the first actor to be nominated twice in the same category in one year, only to split the vote and allow Frances McDormand to sneak away with the Endy.<br />
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1. Tony Shaloub, Big Night<br />
2. <b>Owen Wilson, Bottle Rocket</b><br />
3. Steve Buscemi, Fargo<br />
4. Vince Vaughn, Swingers<br />
5. Robert Carlyle, Trainspotting</div>
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1. <b>Natalie Portman, Beautiful Girls</b><br />
2. Jennifer Tilly, Bound<br />
3. Juliette Binoche, The English Patient<br />
4. Elizabeth Peña, Lone Star<br />
5. Sylvia Sidney, Mars Attacks!<br />
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Binoche will win Best Actress in 2007 (<i>Flight of the Red Balloon</i>) and 2010 (<i>Certified Copy</i>).</div>
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1. Stanley Tucci & Joseph Troppiano, Big Night<br />
2. Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson, Bottle Rocket<br />
3. <b>Ivy Ho, Comrades, Almost a Love Story</b><br />
4. Olivier Assayas, Irma Vep<br />
5. Kevin Williamson, Scream</div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">1. <b>Anthony Minghella, The English Patient</b></span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">2. Jonathan Gems, Mars Attacks!</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">3. David Koepp & Robert Towne, Mission: Impossible</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">4. Laura Jones, Portrait of a Lady</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">5. John Hodge, Trainspotting</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">1. La Comédie-Française (Frederick Wiseman)</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">2.<b> Comrades, Almost a Love Story (Peter Chan)</b></span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">3. The Day a Pig Fell into the Well (Hong Sangsoo)</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">4. Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-hsien)</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">5. Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)</span></div>
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1. La Comédie-Française (Frederick Wiseman)<br />
2. Get on the Bus (Spike Lee)<br />
3. Hype! (Doug Pray)<br />
4. The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera (Adam Simon)<br />
5. <b>When We Were Kings (Leon Gast)</b><br />
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The is the second year to feature a film about Samuel Fuller in the Best Documentary category, after 2013's <i>A Fuller Life</i>.<br />
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1. Beavis & Butthead Do America (Mike Judge)<br />
2. <b>The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise)</b></div>
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1. God of Cookery (Stephen Chow & Li Lik-chi)<br />
2. A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)<br />
3. The Pillow Book (Peter Greenaway)<br />
4. La Promesse (The Dardennes)<br />
5. <b>A Summer's Tale (Eric Rohmer)</b><br />
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Also receiving votes: <i>Breaking the Waves </i>(Lars von Trier), <i>Crash </i>(David Cronenberg), <i>Evita</i> (Alan Parker), <i>Forbidden City Cop</i> (Stephen Chow), <i>Kansas City</i> (Robert Altman), <i>Escape from LA</i> (John Carpenter), and <i>Gabbeh </i>(Mohsen Makhmalbaf).</div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">3. Irma Vep</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">4. Romeo + Juliet</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">5. <b>Trainspotting</b></span></div>
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1. Comrades, Almost a Love Story<br />
2. <b>The English Patient</b><br />
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These are the 1997 Endy Awards, wherein I pretend to give out maneki-neko statues to the best in that year in film. Awards for many other years can be found in the <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2009/01/endy-awards-index.html">Endy Awards Index</a>. Eligibility is determined by imdb date and by whether or not I've seen the movie in question. Nominees are listed in alphabetical order and the winners are <b>bolded</b>. And the Endy goes to. . .</div>
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1. <b>Boogie Nights</b><br />
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1. <b>Paul Thomas Anderson, Boogie Nights</b><br />
2. Quentin Tarantino, Jackie Brown<br />
3. David Lynch, Lost Highway<br />
4. Abbas Kiarostami, Taste of Cherry<br />
5. Wai Ka-fai, Too Many Ways To Be No. 1<br />
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Honestly I'm afraid to go back and rewatch <i>Boogie Nights</i>. It's been years since I've seen it, a film that defined the youthful exuberance and openness of the early stages of cinephilia for me in my younger days. I'd hate to go back and find it to be less than the thrill I got walking into the theatre right at the start of that opening tracking shot. Lynch will win Best Director in 2001 for <i>Mulholland Dr.</i>, Kiarostami will be nominated again in 2010 and 2012. Wai will win for co-directing <i>Running on Karma</i> in 2003. This is Tarantino's first nomination for directing, he will have been nominated for Original Screenplay in 2009.</div>
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1. <b>Leslie Cheung, Happy Together</b><br />
2. Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Happy Together<br />
3. Thomas Jay Ryan, Henry Fool<br />
4. Leonardo DiCaprio, Titanic<br />
5. Wang Hongwei, Xiao Wu<br />
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1. Joey Lauren Adams, Chasing Amy<br />
2. Jodie Foster, Contact<br />
3. <b>Pam Grier, Jackie Brown</b><br />
4. Patricia Arquette, Lost Highway<br />
5. Kate Winslet, Titanic<br />
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I'm arguing back and forth on whether this should go to Cheung or Leung, they're both so good. Giving it to Cheung knowing that both will have more chances at the Endy as we move backward in time. Leung will be nominated another four times between 1997 and 2004, winning in 2000 for <i>In the Mood for Love</i>.<br />
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1. John C. Reilly, Boogie Nights<br />
2. Chris Tucker, The Fifth Element<br />
3. Robert DeNiro, Jackie Brown<br />
4. <b>Robert Forster, Jackie Brown</b><br />
5. Russell Crowe, LA Confidential</div>
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1. <b>Julianne Moore, Boogie Nights</b><br />
2. Minnie Driver, Grosse Pointe Blank<br />
3. Parker Posey, Henry Fool<br />
4. Bridget Fonda, Jackie Brown<br />
5. Sarah Polley, The Sweet Hereafter<br />
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You could fill out two or three supporting actor categories with the cast of <i>Boogie Nights, Jackie Brown</i> and <i>LA Confidential</i>. 1997 was a great year for ensembles. Moore just missed a nomination for <i>The Big Lebowski</i> in 1998, so this might be a bit of a make-up award for her.</div>
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1. Paul Thomas Anderson, Boogie Nights<br />
2. <b>David Lynch & Barry Gifford, Lost Highway</b><br />
3. Abbas Kiarostami, Taste of Cherry<br />
4. Matt Chow, Szeto Kam-yuen & Wai Ka-fai, Too Many Ways To Be No. 1<br />
5. Jia Zhangke, Xiao Wu</div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">3. Brina Helgeland & Curtis Hanson, LA Confidential</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">4. Atom Egoyan, The Sweet Hereafter</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">5. George Toles, Twilight of the Ice Nymphs</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">2. Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai)</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">3. <b>Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)</b></span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">4. Too Many Ways To Be No. 1 (Wai Ka-fai)</span><br />
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1. End of Evangelion (Hideaki Anno & Kazuya Tsurumaki)<br />
2. Evangelion: Death and Rebirth (Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki & Masayuki)<br />
3. <b>Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon)</b><br />
4. Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)</div>
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1. Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)<br />
2. Destiny (Youssef Chahine)<br />
3. <b>Made in Hong Kong (Fruit Chan)</b><br />
4. The Mirror (Jafar Panahi)<br />
5. Same Old Song (Alain Resnais)</div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">1. <b>Boogie Nights</b></span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">2. Happy Together</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">3. Kundun</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">4. Lost Highway</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">5. Too Many Ways to Be No. 1</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">1. Boogie Nights</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">2. Happy Together</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">3. The River</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">4. <b>Titanic</b></span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">5. Too Many Ways to Be No. 1</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Really tempted to give the award to <i>Too Many Ways...</i> just because of the upside-down fight sequence. But this has to go to <i>Titanic</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">1. Boogie Nights</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">2. The Fifth Element</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">3. Starship Troopers</span><br />
4. <b>Titanic</b><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">5. Twilight of the Ice Nymphs</span></div>
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<b>Costume Design:</b></div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">1. <b>Boogie Nights</b></span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">2. The Fifth Element</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">3. The Ice Storm</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">4. Starship Troopers</span><br />
5. Titanic<br />
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Don Cheadle's King Tut outfit.<br />
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<b>Make-up:</b></div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">1. Boogie Nights</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">2. <b>The Fifth Element</b></span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">3. Kundun</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">4. Men in Black</span><br />
5. Titanic<br />
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Not only because of Milla Jovovich's hair. Other stuff too.</div>
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<b>Original Score:</b></div>
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1. Kundun<br />
2. LA Confidential<br />
3. Princess Mononoke<br />
4. Starship Troopers<br />
5. <b>Titanic</b><br />
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Score, not song. The song is terrible, the score is good.</div>
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<b>Adapted Score:</b></div>
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1. Boogie Nights<br />
2. Grosse Pointe Blank<br />
3. Happy Together<br />
4. The Ice Storm<br />
5. <b>Jackie Brown</b><br />
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The Delfonics in an upset!</div>
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<b>Sound:</b></div>
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1. Boogie Nights<br />
2. Lost Highway<br />
3. The River<br />
4. Starship Troopers<br />
5. <b>Xiao Wu</b><br />
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The sound design in Jia Zhangke's debut is extraordinary, the noises and chaos of the rapidly modernizing city intruding on and dominating every aspect of the young pickpocket's life.</div>
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<b>Sound Editing:</b></div>
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This 2004 film directed by Antoine Fuqua from a screenplay by David Franzoni is not just ahistorical in a run of the mill anachronistic or "hey things didn't happen like that" kind of way. That stuff is kind of annoying but it's mostly harmless. All histories, filmed or otherwise, are necessarily approximations of the truth. But this is antihistorical, it falsifies history in such a way as to not only make its audience dumber about the past, but in service of a nefarious agenda regarding the present.<br />
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Arthur is situated as the leader of a small band of Roman cavalry stationed at Hadrian's Wall in the late 5th century, at the time Rome pulled out from Britannia in the wake of Germanic and Gothic incursions throughout the Western Empire. His men, anachronistically called "knights" (knights won't actually become a thing for another 500 years or so, after the Norman conquest; this is an example of an acceptable anachronism, especially since the Arthurian legends, composed in the age of chivalry, have already imposed knighthood on the historical story (if there was one, more about that later)) are Sarmatians, drafted into Imperial service as part of a 3rd Century surrender agreement between their people and the Empire (not historical: the Sarmatians remained a power in the Ukraine and Balkan regions through the end of the Western Empire, though there is a theory that the Arthurian legends are influenced by or even sourced in, similar Sarmatian stories (notably one about a lady with a sword in a lake), the influence purported to have come from a community of Sarmatian veterans in Lancashire). Arthur himself is not Sarmation, but is half-British and half-Roman, having been raised by the renowned Christian theologian Pelagius (though probably of British or Irish origin, Pelagius nonetheless spent most of his life far south of where Arthur would have lived, also he died some 50 years before the events of the film take place and the film is wrong about almost every aspect of his life and beliefs).<br />
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Warring factions on the island include: the Romano-British, those native Celtic Britons that had been Romanized over three centuries of occupation; the Woads, led by the mysterious Merlin, these are non-Romanized Britons at war with the Empire, the name and their appearance recalls the Picts, the Celts who lived North of the Wall in Scotland (the Scoti likely were Irish Celts who migrated from Ulster to Western Scotland, at this time though the Picts were the dominant group in the area), though these Woads seem to operate freely on both sides of the Wall rather than be separated by it from the Empire, which was of course the main purpose of the Wall; the Saxons, Germanic invaders led by Cerdic and his son Cynric who land in Scotland and march South to take over the lands of the withdrawing Romans. This is inane geographically: the Saxons invade North of the Wall, which is not only ahistorical but incredibly dumb - rather than invade the South of England, they apparently travelled all the way north by boat simply to land on the opposite side of the most impressive defensive fortification in the Western Empire. The historical Saxons of course landed on the South and South-Eastern coasts of Britain, an area then known as the "Saxon Shore", Saxon raids on the Empire had been so frequent from the 3rd Century on that there was a whole Roman command dedicated to discouraging them, you can even still find Roman forts on the Saxon Shore today. And it's inane historically: Cerdic was an actual person, as was his son. They were the founders of the Kingdom of the West Saxons, known as Wessex (note: West Saxons, not "guys who invaded Scotland for no reason"). Their line of descendants, cut short in the film because, as the villains, they both get killed, is the line of the British monarchy, a more or less direct descent from Cerdic to Alfred the Great to William the Conquerer, Henry VIII, and the present Elizabeth II. So not only does this film put the West Saxons in the North, it kills off the entire history of English royalty.<br />
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So what have we got here other than a tangled mess of misremembered history? If we posit that no film can be a true depiction of history, and that the task of historical fiction is to use the past as raw material for the telling of a story, one that tells us as much, if not more, about our present than it does our past, in effect broadening our myopic modern concerns with the weight and perspective of lost time (whether fanciful or factual), then what does this nonsense film accomplish? For any act of historical fiction that deviates from historical fact, there must be a reason. Usually this amounts to story expediency, minor historical details are modified to make for a more compelling narrative, as is the case in, say, <i>The Lion in Winter</i>, which depicts a family gathering of the Plantagenet nobility that likely never took place but that nonetheless sets an effective the stage for exploring the actual conflicts and interactions within that remarkable family. So to what end is history mangled in <i>King Arthur</i>? It's hard to read it as anything other than an apologia for neo-conservatisim and a justification for the Iraq War. Released in 2004, at the height of that propagandistic time, we have the story of a powerful garrison stationed in a faraway land, banding together for no reason other than fellowship and duty, to protect one group of freedom-loving primitives from another, more aggressive band. <i>King Arthur </i>was written by David Franzoni, the man also responsible for the historical farce that is <i><a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2015/02/on-ridley-scotts-gladiator.html">Gladiator</a></i>, which asserts that by overthrowing the decadent and fascistic dictatorship of the cruel Roman Emperor Commodus, a group of high-minded nobles and warriors will (did) bring freedom (that word again) to the backwards peoples of the Empire, which is, of course, the opposite of what actually happened in Rome (and Iraq, so far at least). Reportedly Franzoni is at work on two different historical fictions set in China, one a Yang Kwei-fei adaptation, the other set amongst 19th century pirates. I, for one, am very afraid.<br />
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This is the opposite of the narrative the Arthurian legends, if they are in fact sourced in history (which is highly debatable), represent. Tradition holds that the historical Arthur was one of the leaders of a band of Romano-British left behind after the Empire abandoned the island. In the wake of that withdrawal, Saxon immigration (which had been on-going for a century or so) to the island intensified. This was not necessarily in an invasion: one tradition holds that as groups of Romano-British warred amongst themselves, a band of Saxons were invited over as mercenaries and took a liking to the place, setting up their own space and gradually expanding outwards. There's even strong evidence that what happened wasn't so much a full scale migration followed by genocide and population replacement (as is implied by Cerdic preventing a Saxon rape because of a Hitlerian vision of the purity of Saxon blood: in fact, there's some evidence that the historical Cerdic was at least part-Celtic), but rather a cultural shift as the same Britons that had centuries earlier adopted Roman culture simply added Saxon culture to their existing identity (as these same people would later do with Viking and Norman influence - the English are nothing if not adaptable). But anyway, there were a series of battles fought as the various boundaries between Celtic (Welsh, Pict, Cornish), Romano-British and Germanic groups vied for control of the former Imperial lands throughout the 5th and 6th centuries. One of those leaders may have been Arthur (some identify him with the general Ambrosius Aurelianus, who won a decisive battle against the Saxons sometime in the fifth century that might have been at Mons Badonicus (Baden Hill), the site of the fictional Arthur's greatest victory). Arthur isn't mentioned in any contemporary historical accounts (of which there are very few), but from his earliest mentions is identified with the British resistance against the Saxons. The later Arthurian stories, popularized in France in the late middle ages come out of a different tradition entirely and this is the source of much of the chivalric lore surrounding the modern narrative (Guinevere and Lancelot and the grail quest, etc).<br />
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So both the film and the history have tell story of a valiant defense against a foreign invader, so far, so good. But Franzoni makes two major deviations. The first is in asserting that Arthur's band is foreign, rather than a native resistance, as it would have been historically. There's no other reason for this than to draw a parallel to the United States's mission in the Middle East. A film valorizing a native defense against a foreign invasion would send the wrong message in the midst of an American invasion of a foreign nation. This is the nefarious deviation. The second deviation is the geographical nonsense. This is less evil than it is stupid, but possibly even more dangerous. Franzoni has taken a handful of historical actualities and jumbled them together in such a way as to seem plausible, but are actually false. Cerdic and Cynric were actual people, Hadrian's Wall is an actual thing. There's just enough fact in the story to lend the propaganda the patina of truth - an obvious fantasy is no danger because few are likely to believe it, but just as I wonder how many people think the death of Commodus brought about a resurrection of the Roman Republic, I worry how many lies about the past people who see this film will come to believe (not many probably: thankfully the movie didn't have much of an audience and is largely forgotten today). There might be a reason to relocate the invasion North to the Wall, it being a much more dramatic location than the Kentish coastline, the decision to do so is more a matter of privileging dramatic effect over basic logic and common sense. For example, it requires the placing of a massive, defenseless Roman estate North of the Wall, the innocent occupants of which must be evacuated by our hero knights - obviously no such estate would exist: the whole point of the Wall was to keep the Romans on the South side and the Celts on the North. But there's no story reason for Franzoni to name his villains after the founders of the English royal dynasty, why do so other than to adopt the appearance of actuality? And just what is the implication here? Could it be that not only is Franzoni working to justify the invasion of Iraq, but he's also advocating for an American overthrow of the United Kingdom? Probably yes.Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15283666.post-86000056152965348712015-06-29T16:33:00.002-07:002015-07-31T16:33:02.669-07:00The Best Movies of the Year 2015 (So Far)We are now halfway through the year and as has become an <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-best-2014-and-2013-movies-of-year.html">annual tradition</a> here at The End, it's time to look back at the best movies of the year so far. As I discussed in the <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-best-2012-movies-of-2013.html">2013 halfway</a> post, the consensus movie-dating system is nonsensical and posits <a href="http://www.panix.com/~dangelo/nymaster.html">New York</a> as the center of the universe. Far more logical (and much easier to use) is a system reliant on imdb's dating system, which locates a film in whatever year it first played for an audience. That's what we use here at <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2006/07/movies-of-year-big-list-1-1915-1949.html">The End</a> as it's the most fair to all eras and areas. (A dating system reliant on playing in a certain locality I think can be valuable for a publication that is geographically specific, like a local newspaper or website. We'll be putting together a Seattle-specific lists for <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/">Seattle Screen Scene</a> later this week, for example. But here at The End, we have a global reach.)<br />
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A by-product of the system is that a number of films that first go into wide-release in any given year actually had their premiere in the year before. A number of the films on many critics' halfway-thorough lists include these films, films that find their proper home here on my 2014 list. And so here we have two lists: the Best Movies of 2015, following the strict imdb dating system, and the Best 2014 Movies of 2015, which includes those films from last year that you might find on a more chronologically-illogical list. In new additions this year, I'm adding a third list, of 2014 films that have yet to see a New York release and therefore don't (yet) exist by the standards of most critics. And a fourth list, a halfway version of my annual <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-best-older-movies-i-saw-in-2014.html">Best Older Movies</a> list, counting the top movies I saw for the first time this year that are more than a few years old.<br />
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1. Blackhat (Michael Mann)<br />
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2. Mistress America (Noah Baumbach)<br />
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3. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)<br />
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4. World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt)<br />
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5. The Royal Road (Jenni Olson)<br />
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6. Results (Andrew Bujalski)<br />
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7. Jupiter Ascending (The Wachowskis)<br />
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8. Sleeping with Other People (Leslye Headland)<br />
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9. Bitter Lake (Adam Curtis)<br />
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10. Pitch Perfect 2 (Elizabeth Banks)</div>
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1. Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)<br />
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2. The Taking of Tiger Mountain (Tsui Hark)<br />
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3. La Sapienza (Eugène Green)<br />
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4. Ballet 422 (Jody Lee Lipes)<br />
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5. Heaven Knows What (Josh & Benny Safdie)<br />
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6. Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve)<br />
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7. Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)<br />
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8. While We're Young (Noah Baumbach)<br />
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9. Approaching the Elephant (Amanda Wilder)<br />
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10. When Marnie Was There (Hiromasa Yonebayashi)<br />
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11. The Last Five Years (Richard LaGravenese)<br />
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12. Wild Tales (Damián Szifrón)<br />
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13. Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg)<br />
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14. The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland)<br />
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15. Ned Rifle (Hal Hartley)<br />
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16. Amour fou (Jessica Hausner)<br />
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17. Kung Fu Jungle (Teddy Chan)</div>
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1. The Midnight After (Fruit Chan)<br />
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2. Hill of Freedom (Hong Sangsoo)<br />
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3. Horse Money (Pedro Costa)<br />
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4. Phoenix (Christian Petzold)<br />
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5. A Matter of Interpretation (Lee Kwangkuk)<br />
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6. Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang)<br />
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7. Tokyo Tribe (Sion Sono)<br />
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8. Hit 2 Pass (Kurt Walker)<br />
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9. White, Heat, Lights (Takashi Nakajima)<br />
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10. The Coffin in the Mountain (Xin Yukun)<br />
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11. Dearest (Peter Chan)<br />
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12. Uncertain Relationships Society (Heiward Mak)<br />
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13. Welcome to New York (Abel Ferrara)<br />
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14. Black Coal, Thin Ice (Diao Yinan)<br />
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15. Beyond Zero 1914-1918 (Bill Morrison)<br />
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16. The Rehearsal (Carl-Antonyn Dufault)<br />
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17. Natural History (James Benning)<br />
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18. Women Who Know How to Flirt are the Luckiest (Pang Ho-cheung)<br />
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19. The Iron Ministry (JP Sniadecki)<br />
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20. A Hard Day (Kim Seonghun)<br />
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21. Transformers: the Premake (Kevin B. Lee)<br />
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22. The Teacher's Diary (Nithiwat Tharathorn)<br />
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23. Inside Voices (Ryland Walker Knight)<br />
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24. Golden Chickensss (Matt Chow)<br />
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25. Once Upon a Time in Shanghai (Wong Ching-po)</div>
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1. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)<br />
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2. Linda Linda Linda (Nobuhiro Yamashita, 2005)<br />
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3. It Felt Like a Kiss (Adam Curtis, 2009)<br />
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4. Gimme Shelter (The Maysles Brothers and Charlotte Zwerin, 1970)<br />
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5. Aparajito (Satyajit Ray, 1956)<br />
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6. Three Crowns of the Sailor (Raúl Ruiz, 1983)<br />
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7. The Terrorizers (Edward Yang, 1986)<br />
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8. The Sun Shines Bright (John Ford, 1953)<br />
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9. Pride and Prejudice (Simon Langton, 1995)<br />
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10. The East is Red (Ching Siu-tung & Raymond Lee, 1993)<br />
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11. Alexander (Oliver Stone, 2004)<br />
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12. The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray, 1959)<br />
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13. Taipei Story (Edward Yang, 1985)<br />
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14. The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet, 2003)<br />
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15. A Borrowed Life (Wu Nien-jen, 1994)<br />
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16. Balloon Land (Ub Iwerks, 1935)<br />
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17. ¡Que Viva Mexico! (Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov, 1932)<br />
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18. Lady Snowblood (Toshiba Fujita, 1973)<br />
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19. Into the Woods (James Lapine, 1991)<br />
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20. The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (Adam Curtis, 2007)<br />
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21. Ali (Michael Mann, 2001)<br />
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22. Christine (John Carpenter, 1983)<br />
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23. Company (Lonny Price, 2011)<br />
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24. Twin Dragons (Tsui Hark & Ringo Lam, 1992)<br />
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25. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2009)<br />
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26. The Spring River Flows East (Cai Chusheng & Zheng Junli, 1947)<br />
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27. Himalaya Singh (Wai Ka-fai, 2005)<br />
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28. The Power of Nightmares (Adam Curtis, 2004)<br />
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29. The True Story of Wong Fei-hung: Whiplash Snuffs the Candle Flame (Wu Peng, 1949)<br />
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30. Red Line 7000 (Howard Hawks, 1965)<br />
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31. Fay Grim (Hal Hartley, 2006)<br />
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32. The Century of the Self (Adam Curtis, 2002)<br />
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33. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (Justin Lin, 2003)<br />
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34. J. Edgar (Clint Eastwood, 2011)<br />
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This update includes all the rest of the movies I saw at the Seattle International Film Festival. After the festival, I essentially watched nothing for two weeks (well, I watched seven movies in fifteen days, which for me is essentially nothing), so I don't have a whole lot else to update. The only thing I've written about at any length was <i><a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/06/19/the-fifth-element-luc-besson-1997/">The Fifth Element</a></i> over at <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/">Seattle Screen Scene</a>. And here is our <a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.com/2015/06/episode-62-2015-seattle-international.html">SIFF Recap</a> episode of <a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.com/">The George Sanders Show</a>. I've also updated my indices here at The End: the <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2013/02/review-index.html">Review Index</a> and the <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2011/10/index.html">Essay and Podcast Index</a>.<br />
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These are the movies I've watched and rewatched over the last few weeks, and where they place on my <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2006/07/movies-of-year-big-list-1-1915-1949.html">year-by-year rankings</a>. Links are to my <a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/">letterboxd reviews</a>, which range from single words to short comments to proper capsules.<br />
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<a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/after-the-ball/">After the Ball</a> (Georges Méliès) - 1897<br />
<a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/a-trip-to-the-moon/">A Trip to the Moon</a> (Geogres Méliès) - 1, 1902<br />
Metamorphosis of a Butterfly (Gaston Velle) - 1, 1904<br />
<a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/a-trip-down-market-street-before-the-fire/">A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire</a> (The Miles Brothers) - 2, 1906<br />
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<a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/tit-for-tat-1906/">Tit for Tat</a> (Gaston Velle) - 3, 1906<br />
<a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/san-francisco-aftermath-of-earthquake/">San Francisco: Aftermath of the Earthquake</a> (Billy Bitzer) - 4, 1906<br />
<a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/kiri-kis/">Kiri-Kis</a> (Segundo de Chomón) - 1, 1907<br />
<a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/le-papillon-fantastique/">Le papillon fantastique</a> (Georges Méliès) - 3, 1909<br />
<a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/the-balancing-bluebottle/">The Acrobatic Fly</a> (F. Percy Smith) - 2, 1910<br />
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<a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/gertie-the-dinosaur/">Gertie the Dinosaur</a> (Winsor McCay) - 2, 1914<br />
The Love Nest (Buster Keaton & Edward Cline) - 6, 1923<br />
<a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/cave-of-the-spider-women/">Cave of the Spider Women</a> (Dan Duyu) - 15, 1927<br />
<a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/que-viva-mexico/">¡Que viva México!</a> (Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov) - 14, 1932<br />
<a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/balloon-land/">Balloon Land</a> (Ub Iwerks) - 8, 1935<br />
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<a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/cave-of-the-silken-web/">Cave of the Silken Web</a> (Ho Meng-hua) - 24, 1967<br />
<a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/mad-max-2-the-road-warrior/">The Road Warrior</a> (George Miller) - 5, 1981<br />
<a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/the-east-is-red/">The East is Red</a> (Ching Siu-Tung & Raymond Lee) - 17, 1993<br />
<a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/pride-and-prejudice-1995/">Pride and Prejudice</a> (Simon Langton) - 12, 1995<br />
<a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/06/19/the-fifth-element-luc-besson-1997/">The Fifth Element</a> (Luc Besson) - 20, 1997<br />
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<a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/love-in-a-puff/1/">Love in a Puff</a> (Pang Ho-cheung) - 8, 2010<br />
<a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/eden-2014-1/">Eden</a> (Mia Hansen-Løve) - 32, 2014<br />
<a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/the-teachers-diary-2014/">The Teacher's Diary</a> (Nithiwat Tharathorn) - 66, 2014<br />
Lava (James Ford Murphy) - 86, 2014<br />
<a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/sleeping-with-other-people/">Sleeping with Other People</a> (Leslye Headland) - 8, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/inside-out-2015/">Inside Out</a> (Pete Docter) - 11, 2015<br />
<a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/eisenstein-in-guanajuato/">Eisenstein in Guanajuato</a> (Peter Greenaway) - 12, 2015<br />
<a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/the-chinese-mayor/">The Chinese Mayor</a> (Zhou Hao) - 14, 2015<br />
<a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/the-wolfpack/">The Wolfpack</a> (Crystal Moselle) - 17, 2015Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15283666.post-52168957016520672062015-06-01T09:37:00.001-07:002015-06-01T16:16:08.427-07:00This Week in Rankings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm still lost in the never-ending saga that is the Seattle International Film Festival. We've been covering it in detail over at <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/tag/siff-2015/">Seattle Screen Scene</a>, and as of right now I've seen <a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/list/siff-2015-movies/">25 movies or so</a>, with another week to go before the thing is finally, blessedly over. I have a couple posts here started but not finished, on Jackie Chan's <i>Project A</i> movies, which are pretty good, and Antoine Fuqua's <i>King Arthur</i>, which is a crime against history, but festival stuff has slowed the momentum on them enough that I doubt I'll ever actually finish them. Everything else I've written recently has been at SSS, obviously given that the last post here was also a This Week in Rankings. In addition to all the festival coverage over there, I also have reviews of <i><a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/05/08/the-triplets-of-belleville-sylvain-chomet-2003/">The Triplets of Belleville</a></i>, <i><a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/04/30/clouds-of-sils-maria-olivier-assayas-2014/">Clouds of Sils Maria</a></i>, <i><a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/04/27/kung-fu-jungle-teddy-chan-2014/">Kung Fu Jungle</a></i>, and <i><a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/04/24/the-tales-of-hoffmann-michael-powell-emeric-pressburger-1951/">Tales of Hoffman</a>.</i><br />
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Recent episodes of <a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.com/">The George Sanders Show</a> include discussions of <a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.com/2015/05/episode-60-linda-linda-linda-and.html"><i>Linda Linda Linda</i> and <i>The Affairs of Dobie Gillis</i></a>, <a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.com/2015/05/episode-59-clouds-of-sils-maria-and.html"><i>Clouds of Sils Maria</i> and <i>Centre Stage</i></a>, <a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.com/2015/04/episode-58-jauja-and-three-crowns-of.html"><i>Jauja </i>and <i>Three Crowns of the Sailor</i></a>, and <a href="http://thegeorgesandersshow.blogspot.com/2015/04/episode-57-days-of-thunder-and-red-line.html"><i>Days of Thunder</i> and <i>Redline 7000</i></a>. It's been a really long time since I've done an actual episode of <a href="http://theyshotpictures.com/">They Shot Pictures</a>, hopefully I'll be able to put something together this summer, after this festival is over and before the Vancouver Film Festival rolls around in September.<br />
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These are the movies I've watched and rewatched over the last several weeks, and where they place on <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2005/09/movies-of-year-big-list-2-1976-20.html">my year-by-year rankings</a>.<br />
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The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (Don Weis) - 15, 1953<br />
Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray) - 3, 1955<br />
Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray) - 6, 1955<br />
Aparajito (Satyajit Ray) - 8, 1956<br />
The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray) - 8, 1959<br />
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The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov) - 10, 1968<br />
Gimme Shelter (Albert and David Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin) - 1, 1970<br />
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (George Miller) - 23, 1985<br />
Centre Stage (Stanley Kwan) - 5, 1991<br />
Ballistic Kiss (Donnie Yen) - 63, 1998<br />
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The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet) - 11, 2003<br />
Camp (Todd Graff) - 29, 2003<br />
King Arthur (Antoine Fuqua) - 68, 2004<br />
Linda Linda Linda (Nobuhiro Yamashita) - 2, 2005<br />
Himalaya Singh (Wai Ka-fai) - 15, 2005<br />
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Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke) - 73, 2008<br />
Overheard (Alan Mak & Felix Chong) - 50, 2009<br />
Let the Bullets Fly (Jiang Wen) - 6, 2010<br />
Romance Joe (Lee Kwangkuk) - 8, 2011<br />
Overheard 2 (Alan Mak & Felix Chong) - 65, 2011<br />
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Pitch Perfect (Jason Moore) - 17, 2012<br />
Crossfire Hurricane (Brett Morgen) - 63, 2012<br />
Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (Stephen Chow & Derek Kwok) - 10, 2013<br />
Phoenix (Christian Petzold) - 8, 2014<br />
A Matter of Interpretation (Lee Kwangkuk) - 11, 2014<br />
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The Coffin in the Mountain (Xin Yukun) - 25, 2014<br />
Noah (Darren Aronofsky) - 27, 2014<br />
Dearest (Peter Chan) - 32, 2014<br />
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas) - 36, 2014<br />
Beyond Zero 1914-1918 (Bill Morrison) - 38, 2014<br />
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While We're Young (Noah Baumbach) - 39, 2014<br />
When Marnie was There - (Hiromasa Yonebayashi) - 43, 2014<br />
Temporary Family (Cheuk Wan-chi) - 50, 2014<br />
Natural History (James Benning) - 58, 2014<br />
A Hard Day (Kim Seonghoon) - 61, 2014<br />
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Amour Fou (Jessica Hausner) - 67, 2014<br />
Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore) - 72, 2014<br />
Kung Fu Jungle (Teddy Chan) - 74, 2014<br />
Back to the Soil (Bill Morrison) - 75, 2014<br />
Virtuosity (Christopher Wilkinson) - 83, 2014<br />
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Snow on the Blades (Setsurô Wakamatsu) - 86, 2014<br />
Haemoo (Shim Sungbo) - 88, 2014<br />
Overheard 3 (Alan Mak & Felix Chong) - 93, 2014<br />
Mistress America (Noah Baumbach) - 2, 2015<br />
Mad Max Fury Road (George Miller) - 3, 2015<br />
World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt) - 4, 2015<br />
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The Royal Road (Jenni Olson) - 5, 2015<br />
Results (Andrew Bujalski) - 6, 2015<br />
Pitch Perfect 2 (Elizabeth Banks) - 9, 2015<br />
Unexpected (Kris Swanberg) - 12, 2015<br />
Dreams Rewired (Manu Luksch, Thomas Tode & Martin Reinhart) - 13, 2015<br />
Chatty Catties (Pablo Valencia) - 14, 2015Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15283666.post-25932658320788338872015-04-17T22:56:00.001-07:002015-04-17T22:56:38.643-07:00This Week in Rankings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The past several weeks saw the <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/03/19/the-seattle-hou-hsiao-hsien-retrospective/">Hou Hsiao-hsien Retrospective</a> come and go in Seattle, and I covered it in detail over at Seattle Screen Scene (I also was lucky enough to be invited to introduce a handful of shows as well, which was fun). Over there I wrote lengthy reviews of <i><a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/03/20/the-boys-from-fengkuei-hou-hsiao-hsien-1983/">The Boys from Fengkuei</a>, <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/03/21/the-time-to-live-the-time-to-die-hou-hsiao-hsien-1985/">The Time to Live, The Time to Die</a>, <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/03/22/dust-in-the-wind-hou-hsiao-hsien-1986/">Dust in the Wind</a>, <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/03/24/flowers-of-shanghai-hou-hsiao-hsien-1998/">Flowers from Shanghai</a>,</i> <a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/03/27/millennium-mambo-hou-hsiao-hsien-2001/" style="font-style: italic;">Millennium Mambo</a> and <i><a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/04/02/cafe-lumiere-hou-hsiao-hsien-2003/">Café Lumière</a>.</i> I also covered the Seattle releases of Abel Ferrera's <i><a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/04/03/welcome-to-new-york-abel-ferrara-2014/">Welcome to New York</a></i>, Hal Hartley's <i><a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/04/09/ned-rifle-hal-hartley-2014/">Ned Rifle</a></i> and Lisandro Alonso's <i><a href="http://seattlescreenscene.com/2015/04/16/jauja-lisandro-alonso-2014/">Jauja</a></i>.<br />
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I also submitted an annotated list of <a href="http://www.rupertpupkinspeaks.com/2015/04/underrated-sean-gilman.html">Underrated 1985 Films</a> to <a href="http://www.rupertpupkinspeaks.com/">Rupert Pupkin Speaks</a>. And I don't think I've mentioned it yet, but I also have a thing on my favorite <a href="http://www.rupertpupkinspeaks.com/2015/02/favorite-film-discoveries-of-2014-sean_12.html">Film Discoveries of 2014</a> over there too.<br />
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Over here at the end, I wrote about Chang Cheh's <i><a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2015/04/running-out-of-karma-chang-chehs-masked.html">Masked Avengers</a></i>, part of my Running Out of Karma series, <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2013/11/running-out-of-karma-index.html">the index</a> for which is fully updated. I'm closing in on <a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/list/running-out-of-karma-movies/">200 Chinese language films</a> seen as part of the series, which is surely some kind of a milestone. Especially since I still pretty much hate the series's title. My other indices are up-to-date as well: the <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2013/02/review-index.html">Review Index</a> as well as the <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2011/10/index.html">Index of Essays and Podcasts</a>.<br />
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These are the movies I've watched and rewatched over the last few weeks, and where they place on my <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2005/09/movies-of-year-big-list-2-1976-20.html">year-by-year rankings</a>.<br />
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Red Line 7000 (Howard Hawks) - 11, 1965<br />
The Boys in the Band (William Friedkin) - 19, 1970<br />
Cute Girl (Hou Hsiao-hsien) - 27, 1980<br />
Masked Avengers (Chang Cheh) - 28, 1981<br />
Three Crowns of the Sailor (Raoul Ruiz) - 8, 1983<br />
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The Boys from Fengkuei (Hou Hsiao-hsien) - 9, 1983<br />
The Time to Live, The Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-hsien) - 2, 1985<br />
Taipei Story (Edward Yang) - 7, 1985<br />
Yes, Madam (Corey Yuen) - 9, 1985<br />
The Terrorizers (Edward Yang) - 6, 1986<br />
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Dust in the Wind (Hou Hsiao-hsien) - 11, 1986<br />
Project A 2 (Jackie Chan) - 18, 1987<br />
Days of Thunder (Tony Scott) - 40, 1990<br />
Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata) - 2, 1991<br />
Twin Dragons (Tsui Hark & Ringo Lam) - 24, 1992<br />
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A Borrowed Life (Wu Nien-jen) - 11, 1994<br />
Henry Fool (Hal Hartley) - 12, 1997<br />
Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien) - 6, 1998<br />
Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien) - 1, 2001<br />
Fay Grim (Hal Hartley) - 19, 2006<br />
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It Felt Like a Kiss (Adam Curtis) - 2, 2009<br />
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (Adam Curtis) - 23, 2011<br />
Save the Date (Michael Mohan) - 82, 2012<br />
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso) - 4, 2014<br />
Approaching the Elephant (Amanda Wilder) - 31, 2014<br />
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Ned Rifle (Hal Hartley) - 53, 2014<br />
World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeld) - 2, 2015<br />
Bitter Lake (Adam Curtis) - 4, 2015<br />
Furious 7 (James Wan) - 5, 2015Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15283666.post-63716204136057302292015-04-11T09:02:00.001-07:002015-04-11T11:22:25.322-07:00Running Out of Karma: Chang Cheh's Masked Avengers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Masked Avengers</i> was released in 1981, the latest in a series of films directed by Chang Cheh and starring a new group of actors and stunt performers generally known as the Venom Mob, after the 1978 film in which they were first gathered, <i>The Five Deadly Venoms</i>. The plot revolves around a martial arts group's search for the leaders of a criminal gang of assassins. The bad guys wear masks, conduct elaborate sacrifices of their victims (including blood-drinking) and are surprisingly hard to find considering they're the only other characters in the film. Except for one guy, a waiter who knows more than he lets on, who turns out to be a hero, which is also pretty obvious because he's played by Philip Kwok, the most-recognizable of the Venoms (you know him as the badass killer from <i>Hard-Boiled</i> and also Johnnie To and Tsui Hark's <i><a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2015/01/running-out-of-karma-big-heat.html">The Big Heat</a></i>). Like the rest of Chang's films from this period, the plots and characters are rote and mechanical, the fight scenes interminable and the sense of moral, cultural and philosophical decay overwhelming. They are bloody, bleak and crushing films, movies in which the heroes who in earlier years stuck defiantly to codes of honor and brotherhood are finally lost into their nihilistic world of violence and destruction.<br />
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Chang Cheh's breakthrough films in the late 60s and early 70s are driven by the star charisma of David Chiang, Ti Lung and Jimmy Wang Yu and romantic notions of brotherhood, codes and bloody self-sacrifice (<i><a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2013/07/summer-of-sammo-one-armed-swordsman.html">The One-Armed Swordsman</a>, Golden Swallow, <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2014/04/running-out-of-karma-chang-chehs-duel.html">The Duel</a>, <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2013/07/summer-of-sammo-vengeance.html">Vengeance!</a>, <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2013/07/summer-of-sammo-heroic-ones.html">The Heroic Ones</a></i>). His mid-70s films reflect a haphazard attempt to chart a history of kung fu (driven in some part by his collaboration with Lau Kar-leung), locating that code ideal in a centuries-old tradition, as well as an influx of new stars like Alexander Fu Sheng and Chen Kuan-ti (<i><a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2013/07/summer-of-sammo-five-shaolin-masters.html">Shaolin Temple</a>, <a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/boxer-rebellion/">Boxer Rebellion</a>, <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2013/07/summer-of-sammo-five-shaolin-masters.html">Five Shaolin Masters</a>, <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2013/07/summer-of-sammo-heroes-two.html">Heroes Two</a></i>). His late 70s and 80s films ditch the romanticism of brotherhood and movie stardom in favor of a collective of highly skilled stunt performers, almost all of whom either lack star power or aren't given a chance to express it in the confines of the claustrophobic gothic-detective narratives in which they find themselves. The films (In addition to <i>Masked Avengers</i>, I've seen <i>The Five Deadly Venoms, Crippled Avengers, <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2014/04/running-out-of-karma-chang-chehs-ten.html">Ten Tigers from Kwangtung</a></i> and <i><a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/five-element-ninjas/">Five-Element Ninjas</a></i>) almost all exist outside of history or even the ephemeral political context of so many other kung fu films (<i>Ten Tigers</i> being the notable exception, as it is located on the Shaolin Temple-Wong Fei-hung timeline, about which I wrote a long piece last year that may be published someday) choosing instead to play out as either generic revenge tales or wholly unremarkable mystery plots.<br />
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This has the effect of making the films seem even more nihilistic than Chang's earlier paeans to bloody revenge. At least when David Chiang is sacrificing himself, he's doing it <i>for something</i>. Even Wang Yu's white-clad super-swordsman in <i>Golden Swallow</i>, alienated from the world by his bloody obsessions, at least has his moment of heroic glory, knowing he's the greatest warrior of them all. The early Chang heroes die standing up, but in the late films, there's no such glory to be found, only exhaustion. Driven by the percussive rhythms of their (over-)long fight sequences, which, without the drive to authenticity of Lau or the comic ingenuity of the New Wave of choreographers popping up at Golden Harvest and various independent production houses (Sammo Hung, Corey Yuen, Ching Siu-tung, Yuen Woo-ping) become exercises in brutality. The films become less action-entertainment than Sisyphean horror shows, the human body distorted beyond reality, mutilated and scarred by motiveless betrayals and the devious machinery of violence. The five venoms and ninjas are inhuman collectives, the avengers are crippled and demon-masked. The infernal dungeons and torture devices of <i>Masked Avengers</i> belong more to the world of Roger Corman's Poe films than the bright studio sets of the Shaw Brothers (contrast Chang's spare but for devilish implements of murder backgrounds to the stately Sternbergian clutter of Chor Yuen's wuxia films of the same period (<i><a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2013/07/summer-of-sammo-heaven-sword-and-dragon.html">Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre</a>, <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2013/07/summer-of-sammo-heroes-shed-no-tears.html">Heroes Shed No Tears</a>, </i>and<i> <a href="http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2013/07/summer-of-sammo-sentimental-swordsman.html">The Sentimental Swordsman</a></i>), the ornateness of his mise-en-scene matched only by the wild curlicues of his and Gu Long's dizzyingly complicated plots, narratives which pack more ingenious twists into any given ten minutes than the entirety of Chang's bland mysteries). The Masked gang utilizes statues of the Buddha in its elaborate torture systems, imprisoning their victims within statues or crucifying them upon them, but they don't propagate an alternate religion: their base is an abandoned temple, their world has no monks, no ideology, they kill people for money and that is all there is.<br />
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The kung fu film in the early 80s, like most generic cycles in their late stages, was falling apart as it dissolved in a multitude of directions. In a weird way, Chang, the oldest of the great kung fu directors, most captured the generational rage and nihilistic drive to (self-)destruction at the heart of New Wave classics like <i>The Happening</i> or <i><a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/dangerous-encounters-of-the-first-kind/">Dangerous Encounters - First Kind</a></i>. <i>Masked Avengers</i> embodies a bleakness that Sammo Hung can only hint at, that Tsui Hark ventured into only rarely before receding into the comic antics of Cinema City, that Lau Kar-leung took a breath-taking stab at in <i><a href="http://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/film/eight-diagram-pole-fighter/1/">The Eight-Diagram Pole Fighter</a></i> before walking away. In the 15 years between 1967's <i>The One-Armed Swordsman</i> and 1982's <i>The Five-Element Ninjas</i>, Chang Cheh directed somewhere in the neighborhood of seventy films. I'd hesitate to say these late films represent a kind of personal exhaustion, but my God, who wouldn't be tired after all that?<br />
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