Shichinin no samurai (1954) Toshirô Mifune---͞ Akira Kurosawa was ahead of the Hollywood curve, directing this epic masterpiece that shows of his finest talents as a director and screenwriter. ͟ La maman et la putain (1973) 217 min - Drama - 6 July 1973 (West Germany) Director: Jean Eustache Writer: Jean Eustache (scenario and dialogue) Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Léaud and Françoise Lebrun The Piano (1993) 121 min - Drama | Romance - 12 November 1993 (USA) A mute woman along with her young daughter, and her prized piano, are sent to 1850s New Zealand for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, and she's soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation. Director: Jane Campion Writer: Jane Campion Stars: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel and Sam Neill Yi yi (2000) 7.9/10 Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries... (173 mins.) Director: Edward Yang Stars: Nien-Jen Wu, Elaine Jin, Issei Ogata, Kelly Lee Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) A lonely shoe salesman and an eccentric performance artist struggle to connect in this unique take on contemporary life. (91 mins.) Director: Miranda July Stars: John Hawkes, Miranda July, Miles Thompson, Brandon Ratcliff Disco Pigs (2001) A twisted rite of passage. (93 mins.) Director: Kirsten Sheridan Stars: Elaine Cassidy, Cillian Murphy, Brían F. O'Byrne, Eleanor Methven Festen (1998) 8.1/10 At Helge's 60th birthday party, some unpleasant family truths are revealed. (105 mins.) Stars: Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Paprika Steen In Fading Light (1989) A feature drama set in the declining fishing industry in North Shields, the actors auditioned and trained by local fishermen and filmed on the 63 foot seine netter bought by Amber. (103 mins.) Director: Murray Martin Stars: Joe Caffrey, Maureen Harold, Dave Hill, Office Space (1999) 89 min - Comedy | Crime - 19 February 1999 (USA) 7.9/10 a tale of company workers who hate their jobs and decide to rebel against their greedy boss. Director: Mike Judge Sátántangó (1994 In a small dilapidated village in 1980s Hungary, life has come to a virtual standstill. The autumn rains have started... (450 mins.) Director: Béla Tarr The Bed You Sleep In (1993) Times are hard for Northwestern lumber-mill operators like Ray and his wife Jean. Ray and Jean's lives... (117 mins.) Director: Jon Jost Stars: Tom Blair, Marshall Gaddis, Ellen McLaughlin, Kate Sannella Metropolitan (1990) A group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up. (98 mins.) Miller's Crossing (1990) Tom Regan, an advisor to a Prohibition-era crime boss, tries to keep the peace between warring mobs but gets caught in divided loyalties. (115 mins.) Director: Joel Coen Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, John Turturro, Marcia Gay Harden Ren zai Niu Yue (1990) (88 mins.) Director: Stanley Kwan Stars: Sylvia Chang, Maggie Cheung, I-Chen Ko, Josephine Koo Suwingu gâruzu (2004) A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the schools brass band. (105 mins.) Director: Shinobu Yaguchi Stars: Juri Ueno, Yûta Hiraoka, Shihori Kanjiya, Yuika Motokariya Linda Linda Linda (2005) A music group of girls need to learn to play a song before the school festival. (114 mins.) Director: Nobuhiro Yamashita Stars: Doona Bae, Aki Maeda, Yu Kashii, Shiori Sekine Dogville (2003) A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado town. In exchange, she agrees to work for them. As a search visits town, she finds out that their support has a price. Yet her dangerous secret is never far away... (178 mins.) Director: Lars Von Trier Stars: Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Lauren Bacall, Harriet Andersson Gettysburg (1993) 1863, the Northern and Southern forces fight at Gettysburg in the decisive battle of the American Civil War. (261 mins.) Director: Ronald F. Maxwell Stars: Tom Berenger, Martin Sheen, Stephen Lang, Jeff Daniels Palindromes (2004) Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors. (100 mins.) Director: Todd Solondz Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ellen Barkin, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Matthew Faber Nema-ye Nazdik (1990) Pretending to be Mohsen Makhmalbaf making his next movie, Ali Sabzian enters the home of a well-to-do family in Teheran... (98 mins.) Director: Abbas Kiarostami Stars: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Hossain Sabzian, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah Ta'm e guilass (1997) Middle-aged Mr.Badii is planning to commit suicide and desperately seeks anyone to assist him - he has already dug out the grave in the mountains... (95 mins.) Director: Abbas Kiarostami Stars: Homayoun Ershadi, Abdolrahman Bagheri, Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari, Safar Ali Moradi Khane-ye doust kodjast? (1987) An 8 year old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school -- hardly what in Hollywood parlance is called "high concept." (83 mins.) Director: Abbas Kiarostami Stars: Babek Ahmed Poor, Ahmed Ahmed Poor, Kheda Barech Defai, Iran Outari Copie conforme (2010) In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano. (106 mins.) Director: Abbas Kiarostami Stars: Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière, Agathe Natanson Zire darakhatan zeyton (1994) The movie focuses on one of the events in Zendegi Edame Darad (1992), and explores the relationship between the movie director... (103 mins.) Director: Abbas Kiarostami Stars: Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Farhad Kheradmand, Zarifeh Shiva,Hossein Rezai Zendegi va digar hich (1992) After the earthquake of Guilan, the film director and his son, Puya, travel to the devastated area to... (95 mins.) Director: Abbas Kiarostami Stars: Farhad Kheradmand, Buba Bayour, Hocine Rifahi, Ferhendeh Feydi Bad ma ra khahad bord (1999) Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result. (118 mins.) Director: Abbas Kiarostami Stars: Behzad Dorani, Noghre Asadi, Roushan Karam Elmi, Bahman Ghobadi Ten (2002) Ten sequences examine the emotional lives of women at significant junctures. (94 mins.) Director: Abbas Kiarostami Ginger Snaps (2000) This film uses werewolfism as a metaphor for puberty. One of the Fitzgerald sisters, suburban goth girl outcasts, gets bitten by something in the woods (and it ain't a neighborhood dog). (108 mins.) Director: John Fawcett Stars: Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle, Kris Lemche, Mimi Rogers Pas sur la bouche (2003) A musical drawing room farce set in Paris in October, 1925. Gilberte, in middle-age, flirts with men but loves her husband Georges... (115 mins.) Director: Alain Resnais Stars: Sabine Azéma, Isabelle Nanty, Audrey Tautou, Pierre Arditi The Belly of an Architect (1987) An American architect arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibition for a French architect, Boullée, who is famous for his oval structures... (118 mins.) Director: Peter Greenaway Stars: Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb, Lambert Wilson, Sergio Fantoni Polyester (1981) A suburban housewife's world falls apart when her pornographer husband admits he's serially unfaithful to her, her daughter gets pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot- fetishist who's been breaking local women's feet. (86 mins.) Director: John Waters Stars: Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey, David Samson Gerry (2002) A friendship between two twenty-something men is tested to its very limits when they go on a hike in a desert and forget to bring any water or food with them. (103 mins.) Director: Gus Van Sant Stars: Casey Affleck, Matt Damon Palindromes (2004) Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors. (100 mins.) Director: Todd Solondz Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ellen Barkin, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Matthew Faber The Sweet Hereafter (1997) This film documents the effects of a tragic bus accident on the population of a small town. (112 mins.) Director: Atom Egoyan Stars: Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Caerthan Banks, Tom McCamus Strangers with Candy (2005) A prequel to the critically acclaimed series featuring Jerri Blank, a 46 year-old ex-junkie, ex-con who returns to high school in a bid to start her life over. (97 mins.) Director: Paul Dinello Stars: Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Paul Sedaris La haine (1995) Abdel, a local hoodlum, is hospitalized after a riot, where a policeman lost his gun. His friend Vinz finds it and claims he will kill a cop if Abdel dies. (96 mins.) Director: Mathieu Kassovitz Stars: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui, Abdel Ahmed Ghili Spider (2002) A mentally-disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood. (98 mins.) Director: David Cronenberg Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, Lynn Redgrave Funny Games (1997) Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement. (108 mins.) Director: Michael Haneke Stars: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Inland Empire (2006) An actress's perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.