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The Best of 00's
 2464  7.8  7.9 Directed by David Lynch. After a brutal car accident in Los Angeles, California, Rita (Laura Elena Herring) is the sole survivor but suffers mass amnesia. Wandering into a strangers apartment downtown, her story strangely intertwines with Betty Elms (Naomi Watts), a perky young woman in search of stardom. However, Betty is intrigued by Rita's situation and is willing to put aside her dreams to pursue this mystery. The two women soon discover that nothing is as it seems in the city of dreams.  Kankku's rating:
 
244 8.3 7.8 Directed by Shion Sono. Three emotionally abused individuals from the fringes of society get locked in a convoluted love triangle. Yu, a Catholic boy searching for true love ends up taking "panty shot" photos of women in public until he discovers Yoko, whom he sees as his Virgin Mary. Yoko, an anti-family, misandrist girl finds that her foster mother will be marrying Yu's father. Koike, an "original sinner" and the regional leader of a brainwashing cult, co-ordinates a plan to convert Yu's family to her cult. Under her careful direction, their lives come crashing together in one fateful street fight.  Kankku's rating:
1189 7.4 7.3 Directed by Gaspar Noé. Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take matters into their own hands by hiring two criminals to help them find the rapist so that they can exact revenge. A simultaneously beautiful and terrible examination of the destructive nature of cause and effect, and how time destroys everything. My first from Gaspar Noé couldn't be better at all. I expected a lot from this film but this gave me even more. Chaotic but still controlled camera work evokes feelings inside but there is a lot more to come and feel. One of my all time favorites.  Kankku's rating:
680 8.1 8 Directed by Kim Ki-duk. In the midst of the Korean wilderness, a Buddhist master patiently raises a young boy to grow up in wisdom and compassion, through experience and endless exercises. Once the pupil discovers his sexual lust, he seems lost to contemplative life and follows his first love, but soon fails to adapt to the modern world, gets in jail for a crime of passion and returns to the master in search of spiritual redemption and reconciliation with karma, at a high price of physical catharsis... Kim Ki-duk (director) surely doesn't use dialoque too much. The silence isn't still the only strenght of this movie becouse even silence is ridiculous without stunning pictures. You can see the beauty but you can also feel and touch the beauty of this film. Great performances from actors in leading roles.  Kankku's rating:
597 7.8 7.9 Directed by Christian Mungiu. The film follows the story of Otilia Mihartescu (Anamaria Marinca) and Gabriela "Găbiţa" Dragut (Laura Vasiliu), two university friends in an unnamed Romanian town. The film is set in 1987, one of the last years of the Ceauşescu regime. When Găbiţa becomes pregnant, the two girls arrange a meeting with Mr. Bebe (Vlad Ivanov) in a hotel, where he is to perform an illegal abortion (Communist Romania had a natalist policy against abortion). Director Cristian Mungiu wanted to show us the chaos himself proved 20 years ago in Romania. Shame about cruel administration gets very clear. Fantastic story!  Kankku's rating:
1137 6.9 6.5 Directed by Lars von Trier. Lars von Trier shook up the film world when he premiered Antichrist at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. In this graphic psychodrama, a grief-stricken man and woman—a searing Willem Dafoe and Cannes best actress winner Charlotte Gainsbourg—retreat to their cabin deep in the woods after the accidental death of their infant son, only to find terror and violence at the hands of nature and, ultimately, each other. But this most confrontational work yet from one of contemporary cinema’s most controversial artists is no mere provocation. It is a visually sublime, emotionally ravaging journey to the darkest corners of the possessed human mind; a disturbing battle of the sexes that pits rational psychology against age-old superstition; and a profoundly effective horror film. Oh snap Lars. You got me. Von Trier's movie ain't the easiest but definently rewarding movie expirience. Tarkovskian style is amazing and von Trier's themes are beautiful. Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg make both strong performances.  Kankku's rating:
722 7.9 7.8 Directed by Michael Haneke. From July, 1913 to the outbreak of World War I, a series of incidents take place in a German village. A horse trips on a wire and throws the rider; a woman falls to her death through rotted planks; the local baron's son is hung upside down in a mill; parents slap and bully their children; a man is cruel to his long-suffering lover; another sexually abuses his daughter. People disappear. A callow teacher, who courts a nanny in the baron's household, narrates the story and tries to investigate the connections among these accidents and crimes. What is foreshadowed? Are the children holy innocents? God may be in His heaven, but all is not right with the world; the center cannot hold. There aren't too many directors nowadays whose latest movies I wait more than anything. One of those directors is director of The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke. Hanekes vision of Germany in the early 20th century is stunnig. Black and white looks amazing and story is touching and realistic.  Kankku's rating:
487 7.3 7.1 Directed by Giorgos Lanthimos. Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission. The father is the only family member who can leave the manicured lawns of their self-inflicted exile, earning their keep by managing a nearby factory, while the only outsider allowed on the premises is his colleague Christina, who is paid to relieve the son of his male urges. Tired of these dutiful acts of carnality, Christina enlists the elder daughter for some girl-on-girl action. I didn't expect this much from this movie. Brilliantly absurd and 'funny' movie with absolutely great performances. Story is too nice to be true. Visually also great. Now I'm surely aware of next movie from Lanthimos.  I'm not sure if this movie belongs to this list, but at least releasing year in Greece and many film festivals was 2009. Still, for example, this was listed in Slant Magazine's Best of 2010 list and many countries had their actual premiere in the year 2010. Now this film is anyway listed here, because it earns at least somehow its place in this list. Kankku's rating:
 
274 8.7 7.9 Directed by Béla Tarr. This story takes place in a small town on the Hungarian Plain. In a provincial town, which is surrounded with nothing else but frost. It is bitterly cold weather - without snow. Even in this bewildered cold hundreds of people are standing around the circus tent, which is put up in the main square, to see - as the outcome of their wait - the chief attraction, the stuffed carcass of a real whale. The people are coming from everywhere. From the neighboring settlings, even from quite far away parts of the country. They are following this clumsy monster as a dumb, faceless, rag-wearing crowd. This strange state of affairs - the appearance of the foreigners, the extreme frost - disturbs the order of the small town. Aambitious personages of the story feel they can take advantage of this situation. The tension growing to the unbearable is brought to explosion by the figure of the Prince, who is pretending facelessness. Even his mere appearance is enough to break loose destructive emotions... Werckmeister Harmonies was the first Tarr's movie that I ever watched. After this I've had a never ending thirst to get more Tarr. Well, after this I've seen Sátántangó, The Man From London and Damnation, but there are so many rare films from Tarr that are simply impossible to get. Werckmeister Harmonies is beautiful movie. Visually marvellous. Tarr uses black and white in a marvellous way and nature and everything looks in that way fabulous.  Kankku's rating:
99 7.2 6.9 Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Notre Music is divided in three kingdoms: Hell, Purgatory and Paradise like in the Dante's Inferno in the Divine Comedy. Hell shows footages of many wars; Purgatory mixes reality and fiction in Sarajevo; and Paradise is a surrealistic view of a beach "protected" by the American Marines. For me Jean-Luc Godard's movies after 1980s has been more or less difficult or just annoying expiriences. I think King Lear is the only movie I've liked from latter Godard's filmography. Notre Musique convinced me again to love Godard's later movies. Notre Musique is beautiful essay-like movie is new amazing story with many different levels to love.  Kankku's rating:
2117 8.1 8.1 Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. In the early years of the 20th century, Daniel Plainview is an oil prospector. Based on information sold to him by Paul Sunday, he travels to Little Boston, California and begins to buy land, starting with the Sunday's farm. He wants to buy up all of the land in the area and smooth talks the locals into selling by promising that he will build roads, schools and churches. He has no intention of doing so of course and his only purpose is to make money. Over the course of his endeavors, men die, the locals get nothing and Plainview gets rich. In his life he makes few friends and many enemies and even his adopted son H.W. is eventually alienated. There is no movie from Paul Thomas Anderson that I don't own. There is no movie from Paul Thomas Anderson that I haven't seen. There Will Be Blood is the greatest movie from him! Almost one-man-show by Daniel Day-Lewis! There will Be Blood in visually very impressive movie. This is one of those movies that everyone should own on Blu-ray. Movie bases in Upton Sinclair's novel Oil! and the screenplay is from Paul Thomas Anderson himself.  Kankku's rating:
940 6.5 6.7 Directed by Terrence Malick. When 17th century explorer John Smith and a few men go up the river to trade with the Indians, he befriends the princess Pocahontas and they fall in love. While in love, Smith must obtain his duties as president of Jamestown fort and challenges to himself what is the better path for himself to take: stay with the fallen apart colony or go up the river and love Pocahontas in the wild. The Indians realize that the English do not mean to leave, so they attack. A few men at the fort decide to capture Pocahontas as a hostage so the Indians will not attack them. Smith is ordered to leave Jamestown by the King, and John Rolfe, a wealthy tobacco planter arrives at the fort. Pocahontas, now living there adapts to the English cultures and falls in love with Rolfe. She falls apart deciding who she is dedicated to, Smith or Rolfe.  Kankku's rating:
1262 8.6 9.6 Directed by David Frankel and Mikael Salomon. This is the story of "E" Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division from their initial training starting in 1942 to the end of World War II. They parachuted behind enemy lines in the early hours of D-Day in support of the landings at Utah beach, participated in the liberation of Carentan and again parachuted into action during Operation Market Garden. They also liberated a concentration camp and were the first to enter Hitler's mountain retreat in Berchtesgarten. A fascinating tale of comradeship that is, in the end, a tale of ordinary men who did extraordinary things...  Kankku's rating:
551 7.8 7.8 Directed by Werner Herzog. For thirteen consecutive summers, the American Timothy Treadwell moved to Katmai in the Alaskan Peninsula to live among the grizzly bears, with the pretext of studying and protecting them. In 2003, his girlfriend Amie Huguenard and he were surprisingly attacked and eaten by a bear. Werner Herzog somehow accessed more than one hundred hours of footages filmed by Timothy and released this documentary, showing the life and death of Timothy Treadwell. This my favorite documentary ever made. Treadwell's way to handle nature is outstanding. Touching true story about a man who didn't fit in our or bear's civilization.  One with nature. I think somebody is wilder than Wildboyz. Kankku's rating:
1455 7.1 7.2 Directed by Gus Van Sant. A day in the lives of a group of average teenage high school students. The film follows every character and shows their daily routines. However two of the students plan to do something that the student body won't forget. Effect of the movie is instant. In Finland (land of 5 million people) there has been two school shooting in three years and those two were in the years 2007 (in Jokela/Tuusula) and 2008 (in Kauhajoki). That's just ugly truth and Elephant hits straight in your face with showing these brutal methods almost unsencored. Inauspicious takes us forward to the ugly destination and there isn't coming back. Strong performances by actors in leading and smaller roles and camerawork is simply superb.  Kankku's rating:
957 7.8 8 Directed by Julian Schnabel. Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind. French cinema is one of the highest class cinemas. Unfortunately most of the French movies I've seen takes place in 60s. Julian Schnabel's (dir.) true story about Elle's editor-in-chief is one of my favorites from 21st century so far. Magnificent performance by Mathieu Amalric! Emmanuelle Seigner ain't so bad ether.  Kankku's rating:
4160 8.1 8.3 Directed by Quentin Tarantino. In Nazi occupied France, young Jewish refugee Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the slaughter of her family by Colonel Hans Landa. Narrowly escaping with her life, she plots her revenge several years later when German war hero Fredrick Zoller takes a rapid interest in her and arranges an illustrious movie premiere at the theater she now runs. With the promise of every major Nazi officer in attendance, the event catches the attention of the "Basterds", a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers led by the ruthless Lt. Aldo Raine. As the relentless executioners advance and the conspiring young girl's plans are set in motion, their paths will cross for a fateful evening that will shake the very annals of history.  Kankku's rating:
2540 8.3 8.7 Directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund. Brazil, 1960's, City of God. The Tender Trio robs motels and gas trucks. Younger kids watch and learn well...too well. 1970's: Li'l Zé has prospered very well and owns the city. He causes violence and fear as he wipes out rival gangs without mercy. His best friend Bené is the only one to keep him on the good side of sanity. Rocket has watched these two gain power for years, and he wants no part of it. Yet he keeps getting swept up in the madness. All he wants to do is take pictures. 1980's: Things are out of control between the last two remaining gangs...will it ever end? Welcome to the City of God. Cruel story about Rio de Janeiros slums. Nice idea to make a movie without so called "real actors". Zé Pequeno is a badass one of the kind! Not so long ago this was my favorite movie and my #1 on this list. So place in my "The Best of 00's" was guaranteed.  Kankku's rating:
1256 7.9 8.1 Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Three interconnected stories about the different strata of life in Mexico City all resolve with a fatal car accident. Octavio is trying to raise enough money to run away with his sister-in-law, and decides to enter his dog Cofi into the world of dogfighting. After a dogfight goes bad, Octavio flees in his car, running a red light and causing the accident. Daniel and Valeria's new-found bliss is prematurely ended when she loses her leg in the accident. El Chivo is a homeless man who cares for stray dogs and is there to witness the collision. So realistic it makes me goose pimples. Amazing work by Alejandro González Iñárritu as a director. This movie was also Gael García Bernal's breakthrough into my favorite actors. Movie is also visually good-looking.  Kankku's rating:
 
3969 7.4 7.8 Directed by Sofia Coppola. Bob Harris is an American film actor, far past his prime. He visits Tokyo to appear in commercials, and he meets Charlotte, the young wife of a visiting photographer. Bored and weary, Bob and Charlotte make ideal if improbable traveling companions. Charlotte is looking for "her place in life," and Bob is tolerating a mediocre stateside marriage. Both separately and together, they live the experience of the American in Tokyo. Bob and Charlotte suffer both confusion and hilarity due to the cultural and language differences between themselves and the Japanese. As the relationship between Bob and Charlotte deepens, they come to the realization that their visits to Japan, and one another, must soon end. Or must they? Very different comedy in a good way. Not too hilarious but still fun and beautiful. When I saw this first time that was the time I fell in love with Scarlett Johansson. Not only pretty, also talented young woman. Bill Murray rocks too.  Kankku's rating:
1961 7.1 7.3 Directed by Darren Aronofksy. Three stories - one each from the past, present, and future - about men in pursuit of eternity with their love. A conquistador in Mayan country searches for the tree of life to free his captive queen; a medical researcher, working with various trees, looks for a cure that will save his dying wife; a space traveler, traveling with an aged tree encapsulated within a bubble, moves toward a dying star that's wrapped in a nebula; he seeks eternity with his love. The stories intersect and parallel; the quests fail and succeed. I can't understand this awesomeness. One of the most beautiful movies ever made by Darren Aronofsky. Amazing story from Aronofsky (screenplay) and Ari Handel (story). This film also includes greatest performance from Hugh Jackman. Now he really gives everything he has!  Kankku's rating:
286 7.2 6.8 Directed by György Pálfi. When Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spiring created emotions with stunning pictures, Taxidermia isn't bad loser. Uglyness might be also beauty and this movie is great evidence for that. Disgusting film which you definently won't watch with your mother.  Seriously: Do NOT eat before or during this movie! Kankku's rating:
3413 8.4 8.6 Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. While moving to a new home in Japan, Chihiro and her parents take a wrong turn down a mysterious wooded path. They come across an ominous-looking tunnel of which only Chihiro is scared. Going through the tunnel, they are lead them to a mysterious town filled with restaurants that have all kinds of delicious food on display. Chihiro's parents quickly sit down and start gorging themselves, assuming they will pay the restaurant upon their return. Chihiro's doubt of this strange town leads her to wander off, and she comes across a building of titanic size, where a young boy warns her to leave before nightfall. However, as the sun sets, the town begins to fill up with the gods of Japan's mythology, and Chihiro returns to find her parents mysteriously turned into pigs. The young boy, Haku, works in the building, which is a bathhouse for 8 Million gods. He helps Chihiro find work in this new world, find a way to save her parents from a dinner platter, and find her way home. Kankku's rating:
866 8.2 8 Directed by Kar Wai Wong. Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are polite and formal—until a discovery about their respective spouses sparks an intimate bond. At once delicately mannered and visually stunning, Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments in time.  Kankku's rating:
76 7.8 7.9 Directed by Guy Maddin. Two brothers, mortician Nikolai and actor Osip (playing Christ in a Passion play), love the same woman—scientist Anna, who studies the Earth's core, or the "heart of the world." Anna discovers that the world is in danger. In order to save it, she must choose between the brothers, and finally decides on a rich industrialist, Akmatov. As a result, the very heart of the world has a heart attack. Realizing what she has done, she strangles Akmatov and enters the Earth's core, replacing the failed heart with her own.  Kankku's rating:
1135 8 7.9 Directed by Marjana Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud. In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study for a better life. However, this change proves an equally difficult trial with the young woman finding herself in a different culture loaded with abrasive characters and profound disappointments that deeply trouble her. Even when she returns home, Marji finds that both she and homeland have changed too much and the young woman and her loving family must decide where she truly belongs.  Kankku's rating:
5433 8 8.4 Directed by Michel Gondry. On a Valentine Day, Joel Barish feels the impulse of going to Montauk instead of working. After spending the cold day on the beach, he meets Clementine Kruczynski on the train station and they have a crush on each other. Joel and Clementine do not know that they were mates in the past. Joel has just erased Clementine from his memories when he found that Clementine did exactly the same, when their relationship ended. However, along his erasing process, Joel becomes astonished when he finds that he still loves Clementine and he does not want to lose her, fighting for keeping the memories of their moments together instead.  Kankku's rating:
1438 7.2 7.6 Directed by Andrew Dominik. The last months of Jesse James's life, from meeting Robert Ford, a 19-year-old who idolizes Jesse, to the day Ford shoots him. Jesse's a wanted man, living under a pseudonym, carrying out a train robbery, disappearing to Kentucky, and reappearing to plan a bank holdup with Robert and Robert's brother as his team. The rest of the gang is dead, arrested, or gone from Missouri. Whenever Jesse's around, there's tension: he's murderous, quixotic, depressed, and cautious. Ford wants to be somebody and wants the reward. On April 3, 1882, things come to a head: Jesse is 34, Robert 20. Ford becomes famous, reenacting the shooting on stage, facing down the label "coward," shot dead in 1892. Most beautiful western on this century. Visually impressive, sounds great and the idea on the paper is great. One of the greatest modern westerns.  Kankku's rating:
3195 8.1 8.5 Directed by Roman Polanski. A brilliant pianist, a Polish Jew, witnesses the restrictions Nazis place on Jews in the Polish capital, from restricted access to the building of the Warsaw ghetto. As his family is rounded up to be shipped off to the Nazi labor camps, he escapes deportation and eludes capture by living in the ruins of Warsaw.  Kankku's rating:
346 7.8 7.6 Directed by Aki Kaurismäki. The second part of Aki Kaurismäki's "Finland" trilogy, the film follows a man who arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember his name or anything from his past life, he cannot get a job or an apartment, so he starts living on the outskirts of the city and slowly starts putting his life back on track.  Kankku's rating:
228 7.4 6.9 Directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic. Even when I first time saw pictures about this film, I thought to myself, 'again one of those tales for adults that I must see'. I saw it and fell in love with it. Film set viewers in the same situation as the characters are in the movie and that works more than well. One of the most beautiful movies made on this decade and from the wife of Gaspar Noé.  Kankku's rating:
2332 8.2 8.4 Directed by Chan-wook Park. An average man is kidnapped and imprisoned in a shabby cell for 15 years without explanation. He then is released, equipped with money, a cellphone and expensive clothes. As he strives to explain his imprisonment and get his revenge, he soon finds out that not only his kidnapper has still plans for him, but that those plans will serve as the even worse finale to 15 years of imprisonment. Director Chan-wook Park really convinced my with this movie. Not only bloody story about revenge, this is MARVELLOUS and bloody story about revenge.  Kankku's rating:
3909 8 8.3 Directed by Guillermo del Toro. In 1944 fascist Spain, a girl, fascinated with fairy-tales, is sent along with her pregnant mother to live with her new stepfather, a ruthless captain of the Spanish army. During the night, she meets a fairy who takes her to an old faun in the center of the labyrinth. He tells her she's a princess, but must prove her royalty by surviving three gruesome tasks. If she fails, she will never prove herself to be the the true princess and will never see her real father, the king, again. Isn't this just so cool? Visually gorgeus-looking and spectacular story together. No man can hate Captain Vidal or Fauno!  Kankku's rating:
3146 7.9 8.2 Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. After stumbling across a case of money among dead bodies, Llewelyn Moss thinks he can keep it quiet, but when silent killer Anton Chigurh locates Moss and his money, Vietnam veteran Moss makes a run for it. With bodies falling everywhere Anton goes, it's only a matter of time before he catches up with Llewelyn. Whilst all this is going on, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell is overseeing the investigation and begins to see the country in a different light than it once was. I really like Coen bros' way to make black comedies. Anton Chigurh is one of my favorite villains ever, great performance by Javier Bardem.  Kankku's rating:
1499 7.6 7.7 Directed by Wolfgang Becker. East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the regime. His mother watches the police arresting him and suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. Some months later, the GDR does not exist anymore and the mother awakes. Since she has to avoid every excitement, the son tries to set up the GDR again for her in their flat. But the world has changed a lot. Kankku's rating:
2358 7.6 8 Directed by Clint Eastwood. Childhood friends Jimmy Markum, Sean Devine and Dave Boyle reunite following the death of Jimmy's oldest daughter, Katie. Sean's a police detective on the case, gathering difficult and disturbing evidence; he's also tasked with handling Jimmy's rage and need for retribution. My favorite movie by Clint Eastwood as a director. Sean Penn's incredible performance as Jimmy Marcum will always be in my mind.  Kankku's rating:
1754 7.2 7.6 Directed by David Cronenberg. In Millowbrook, Indiana, the mild Tom Stall owns a bar and has a calm life with his beloved wife Edie, his teen-aged son Jack, and his little daughter Sarah. His life turns upside-down when her kills two cold-blooded killers in his bar to protect his waitress, becoming a local hero and being shown in the front page of the local news and on TV. The next day, mobster Carl Fogarty comes to the town, calling him Joey Cusack and telling that he was a former hit man. When Carl and his men threaten his family, Tom defends them, and violence is released in a chain reaction.  Kankku's rating:
579 6.8 7 Directed by Matteo Garrone. Gomorra is a contemporary Neapolitan mob drama that exposes Italy's criminal underbelly by telling five stories of individuals who think they can make their own compact with Camorra, the area's Mafia.  Kankku's rating:
569 7.7 7.9 Directed by Ari Folman. One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that there's a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Ari is surprised that he can't remember a thing anymore about that period of his life. Intrigued by this riddle, he decides to meet and interview old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about that time and about himself. As Ari delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images.  Kankku's rating:
2692 7.2 7.5 Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Four interlocking stories all connected by a single gun all converge at the end and reveal a complex and tragic story of the lives of humanity around the world and how we truly aren't all that different. In Morocco, a troubled married couple are on vacation trying to work out their differences. Meanwhile, a Moroccan herder buys a rifle for his sons so they can keep the jackals away from his herd. A girl in Japan dealing with rejection, the death of her mother, the emotional distance of her father, her own self-consciousness, and a disability among many other issues, deals with modern life in the enormous metropolis of Tokyo, Japan. Then, on the opposite side of the world the married couple's Mexican nanny takes the couple's 2 children with her to her son's wedding in Mexico, only to come into trouble on the return trip. Combined, it provides a powerful story and an equally powerful looking...  Kankku's rating:
4462 8.1 8.5 Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Amélie is a story about a girl named Amélie whose childhood was suppressed by her Father's mistaken concerns of a heart defect. With these concerns Amélie gets hardly any real life contact with other people. This leads Amélie to resort to her own fantastical world and dreams of love and beauty. She later on becomes a young woman and moves to the central part of Paris as a waitress. After finding a lost treasure belonging to the former occupant of her apartment, she decides to return it to him. After seeing his reaction and his new found perspective - she decides to devote her life to the people around her. Such as, her father who is obsessed with his garden-gnome, a failed writer, a hypochondriac, a man who stalks his ex girlfriends, the "ghost", a suppressed young soul, the love of her life and a man whose bones are as brittle as glass. But after consuming herself with these escapades - she finds out that she is disregarding her own life and damaging her quest for love...  Kankku's rating:
 
1081 7.5 7.4 Directed by Pedro Almodóvar. In the early 60s, two boys - Ignacio and Enrique - discover love, movies and fear in a Christian school. Father Manolo, the school principal and Literature teacher, both witnesses and takes part in these discoveries. The three characters come against one another twice again, in the late 70s and in 1980. These meetings are set to change the life and death of some of them.  Kankku's rating:
225 7.5 7.3 Directed by Roy Andersson. A series of scenes that focus specially on a single idea, emotion or act us. In the absence of interfering qualities this film is able to take one factoring influence and amplify it to absurd and hilarious proportions. Each scene gives us an uninterrupted view at some of the more unglamorous characteristics that in the end determine who we are, both as individuals and as a thread in the patchwork of the collective human unconscious.  Kankku's rating:
624 8 8.1 Directed by Alan Mak and Wai-keung Lau. Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin Ming, respectively, race against time to expose the mole within their midst.  Kankku's rating:
2659 7.3 7.6 Directed by Zack Snyder. In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so discover a deeper and far more diabolical plot.  Kankku's rating:
1247 7.6 7.8 Directed by Wes Anderson. It is the story of one Mr. Fox and his wild-ways of hen heckling, turkey taking and cider sipping, nocturnal, instinctive adventures. He has to put his wild days behind him and do what fathers do best: be responsible. He is too rebellious. He is too wild. He is going to try "just one more raid" on the three nastiest, meanest farmers that are Boggis, Bunce and Bean. It is a tale of crossing the line of family responsibilities and midnight adventure and the friendships and awakenings of this country life that is inhabited by Fantastic Mr. Fox and his friends.  Kankku's rating:
340 7.2 7.5 Directed by Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing. Jesus Camp follows several young children as they prepare to attend a summer camp where the kids will get their daily dose of evangelical Christianity. Becky Fischer works at the camp, which is named Kids on Fire. Through interviews with Fischer, the children, and others, Jesus Camp illustrates the unswerving belief of the faithful. A housewife and homeschooling mother tells her son that creationism has all the answers. Footage from inside the camp shows young children weeping and wailing as they promise to stop their sinning. Child after child is driven to tears. Juxtapose these scenes with clips from a more moderate Christian radio host (who is appalled by such tactics), and Jesus Camp seems to pose a clear question: are these children being brainwashed?  Kankku's rating:
1787 7.8 8 Directed by Tomas Alfredson. Oskar, a bullied 12-year old, dreams of revenge. He falls in love with Eli, a peculiar girl. She can't stand the sun or food and to come into a room she needs to be invited. Eli gives Oskar the strength to hit back but when he realizes that Eli needs to drink other people's blood to live he's faced with a choice. How much can love forgive? Set in the Stockholm suburb of Blackeberg in 1982. Everybody loves Swedish cinema. Let the Right One In is seriously one of the most thrilling modern horror stories.  Kankku's rating:
1543 7.6 7.8 Directed by Kinji Fukasaku. Forty-two delinquent students, three days, one deserted Island: welcome to Battle Royale. A group of delinquent students from a Japanese high school have been forced by legislation to compete in a new forum of reality television.The students are each given a bag with a randomly selected weapon and a few rations of food and water and sent off to kill each other in a no-holds-barred (with a few minor rules) game to the death, which means that the students have three days to kill each other until one survives--or they all die. The movie focus on a few of the students and how they cope. Some decide to play the game like the psychotic Kiriyama or the sexual Mistuko, while others like the heroes of the movie--Shuya, Noriko, and Kawada--are trying to find a way to get off the Island without violence. However, as the numbers dwell down lower and lower on an hourly basis, is there any way for Shuya and classmates to survive?  Kankku's rating:
271 7.4 7.4 Directed by Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne. Bruno and Sonia are boy friend and girl friend, playful, immature. She's still in her teens; they chase each other, share cigarettes, spray sodas and wrestle. The thing is, they also have a new baby. Just out of hospital, Sonia seeks out Bruno to bring him his son. Bruno's indifferent. In the grimy Belgian city of Seraing, he's a petty thief with no interest in work, no plan, spending money as fast as he can fence cameras and jewelry. He sells the baby. Sonia's reaction and Bruno's surprise at her response inform his subsequent actions. The camera follows and observes him: has he a nascent conscience or any chance at redemption? Can he help himself?  Kankku's rating:
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