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Seven Problems with Seven Psychopaths (2012)

First the good news: Martin McDonagh directed a very funny, very black comedy called Six Shooter in Ireland in 2004 and you can watch it on youtube. It stars Brendan Gleeson and won the Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film. As for Seven Psychopaths, well....

1. The main cast is all big-name actors, and they’re all cool ‘guys’ guys’ in their 40’s or older: Christopher Walken, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Colin Farrell, Tom Waits. The film needed some contrast. If some timid, 20-year old, relatively unknown actor had played the Farrell role, it would have helped a lot. Perhaps he could also have been an Indian, or a Mexican.
2. It’s not a bad film, but it’s all a lark. It reminded me for some reason of ‘romps’ like Hudson Hawk or Last Action Hero. It’s wittier than those films - the moment when Walken refuses to put his hands up when someone points a gun at him is a good example of that - but it’s just as inconsequential. Nothing in the story really matters. That’s a danger of course when you mix comedy and violence: they can cancel each other out. You don’t care about the deaths and the setbacks the way you do in a drama, and the jokes don’t seem so funny either.    
3. Sourness of tone is a problem in general. The language is not just expletive-filled as in so many other crime films. It seems nasty - as in the frequent references to women as ‘c**ts’ - and this sits badly with the film’s overall jokey tone. For me one moment in particular seemed ‘off’: the shooting of Sam Rockwell’s ‘girlfriend’. She seems to be introduced just so that she could be killed on a whim, for no apparent reason, and with no one caring. (Another female character is also killed but at least she’s mourned). There’s a meta-narrative aspect to the film because at times the characters discuss making a film called ‘Seven Psychopaths’ and Walken chides its writer (Farrell) for his disposable female characters. But stating explicitly that this is a weakness doesn’t excuse it. It just makes you think: ‘If you knew it was a problem, why didn’t you fix it?’ 
4. The story of the Vietnamese killer-monk felt tacked-on and pointless.
5. This is apparently a very old Martin McDonagh script. It shows. The influence of Tarantino weighs heavily on it: the Tarantino of the mid-90’s that is, not the Tarantino of today. At the start two gangsters trade witty repartee like Travolta and Jackson in Pulp Fiction and at the end we see a character who’s in fact dead now, just as we do with Travolta in Pulp. Didn’t anyone realise that it would have been a bad idea to be this derivative in 1997, let alone 2012? Even the poster for the film comes from the 90’s: a group of characters are lined up staring out at us, as in the iconic posters for Trainspotting and The Usual Suspects. 
6. They should have found a better MacGuffin than a stolen dog. It’s an especially small, cutesy, ‘lady’s dog’, so you never believe that hard man Woody Harrelson would really care for it so much. It just makes the whole film silly.
7. Most of the characters are too unrealistically impervious to engage us. Maybe because he was playing someone so stupid and unlikable, Sam Rockwell comes off worse. I usually like him but here his whiny shtick seemed really annoying. Harrelson, Farrell and Waits are OK, but could have been much better. They generally just provoke a feeling of indifference. They’ve done it all before in other, better films. Walken is the only one to come out of the film looking halfway decent, and there’s a reason for that: we care about him because he cares about someone else, his wife. So the lesson is obvious: give the characters someone or something that it will hurt them to lose.

Martin McDonagh’s first film In Bruges was excellent. Seven Psychopaths would seem to be that ‘difficult second work’ which didn’t pan out, despite initially sounding very promising. But as I said, it’s based on an old script so it’s not really a second film. There’s a clear reason it seems like a step backwards; it was written when McDonagh’s writing talent was less developed. Hopefully next time he’ll come up with something actually new.

400 Famous Foreign Films Rated

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The main criteria for inclusion here, other than being famous, was that the film must be in a foreign language. In other words, I haven’t included any films made by foreign directors in English, for example Last Tango in Paris or Blow-Up, but I have included Canadian Films in French and odd American films like Apocalypto and Letters from Iwo Jima. I’ve also included foreign silent films, and foreign films like Spirited Away or Sans Soleil which were released in the US and UK with an English soundtrack.  

Most of the titles are the English translations; the only exceptions are certain Italian and French films where the original title is better-known.

The ratings are just my opinions and the rating system is the same as Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide. 4 stars is the maximum, and three and a half is also excellent. ‘BOMB’ is the worst. Anything less than 3 stars is usually not worth watching. 

1. 10 (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002) ****
2. 12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu, 2006) ***½
3. 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1976) ***½
4. 2046 (Wong Kar Wai, 2004) ***½
5. 3-Iron (Kim Ki-Duk, 2004) ***½
6. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007) ***½
7. 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963) ***½
8. A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin, 2008) **
9. A Hole in My Heart (Lukas Moodyson, 2004) BOMB
10. A Nous La Liberte (Rene Clair, 1931) ***
11. A One and A Two (Edward Yang, 2000) ****
12. A Prophet (Jacques Audiard, 2009) ***
13. A Royal Affair (Nikolaj Arcel, 2012) ***
14. A Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997) ***½
15. A Taxing Woman (Juzo Itami, 1987) ***
16. A Very Long Engagement (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2004) ***½ 
17. Accattone (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1961) ***
18. After Life (Hirokazu Koreeda, 1998) ****
19. After the Rehearsal (Ingmar Bergman, 1984) ***½
20. After the Wedding (Susanne Bier, 2006) ***
21. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972) ***½
22. Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988) ***
23. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1974) ***½
24. Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders, 1974) ***
25. All About My Mother  (Pedro Almodovar, 1999) ***
26. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965) ***
27. Amarcord (Federico Fellini 1973) ****
28. Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001) ****
29. Amores Perros (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, 2000) ***½
30. Amour (Michael Haneke, 2012) ***½
31. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966) **
32. Anything for Her (Fred Cavayé, 2008) ***
33. Aparajito (Satyajit Ray, 1956) ***
34. Apocalypto (Mel Gibson, 2006) ****
35. Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud (Louis Malle, 1958) ***½
36. Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda, 1958) ***
37. Atanarjuat - The Fast Runner  (Zacharias Kunuk, 2001) BOMB
38. Attack the Gas Station (Kim Sang-Jin, 1999) ***½
39. Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966) **½
40. Audition (Takashi Miike, 1999) **
41. Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman, 1978) ***½
42. Bad Education (Pedro Almodovar, 2004) ***
43. Baise-Moi (Virginie Despentes, Coralie Trinh Thi, 2000) BOMB
44. Ballad of A Soldier (Grigori Chukhrai, 1959) ***½
45. Bande a Part (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964) ***
46. Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku, 2000) ***
47. Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999) **
48. Before the Revolution (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1964) ***
49. Belle De Jour (Luis Bunuel, 1967) ***½
50. Betty Blue (Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1986) **½
51. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948) ****
52. Black Book (Paul Verhoeven, 2007) ***½
53. Black Cat White Cat (Emir Kusturica, 1998) ***
54. Bob le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1956) **
55. Boudu Saved From Drowning (Jean Renoir, 1932) **½
56. Boy (Nagisa Oshima, 1969) **
57. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1959) ***
58. Broken Embraces ( Pedro Almodóvar, 2009) ***
59. Buffet Froid (Bertrand Blier, 1979) ***½
60. Bullhead (Michaël R. Roskam, 2011)***
61. Burma VJ (Anders Ostergaard, 2008) ***
62. Bus 174 (José Padilha, Felipe Lacerda, 2002) ***½
63. Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005) ***½
64. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974) **
65. Chico & Rita (Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal, Tono Errando, 2010) ***½
66. Chungking Express (Wong Kar Wai, 1994) ***½
67. Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988) **
68. Circle of Deceit (Volker Schlondorff, 1981) ***½
69. City of God (Fernando Meirelles, 2002) ***
70. City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1989) **½
71. Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer, 1970) ***
72. Closely Observed Trains (Jiri Menzel, 1966) ****
73. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990) ***
74. Cobra Verde (Werner Herzog, 1987) **
75. Code Unknown (Michael Haneke, 2000) ***
76. Come And See (Elem Klimov, 1985) ****
77. Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman, 1972) **½  
78. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000) ****
79. Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen, 1981) **
80. Day for Night (Francois Truffaut, 1973) **** 
81. Dear Diary (Nanni Moretti, 1994) ***
82. Death of A Cyclist (Juan Antonio Bardem, 1955) ***½
83. Diva (Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1982) ***
84. Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009) BOMB
85. Dolls (Takeshi Kitano, 2002) ***½
86. Domicile Conjugal (Francois Truffaut, 1970) ****
87. Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2004) **½ 
88. Eat Drink Man Woman (Ang Lee 1994) ****
89. Eloge De L’Amour (Jean-Luc Godard, 2001) **½
90. Elvira Madigan (Bo Wilderberg, 1967) ***
91. End of Summer (Yasujiro Ozu, 1961) ***½
92. Eureka (Shinji Aoyama, 2000) **
93. Every Man for Himself and God Against All (Werner Herzog, 1975) **½
94. Face to Face (Ingmar Bergman, 1976) ***
95. Fallen Angels (Wong-Kar Wai, 1995) ***
96. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1982) ****
97. Farewell My Concubine (Chen Kaige, 1993) ***
98. Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa, 1959) ***
99. Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959) ***
100. Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1975) ***
101. From the Life of the Marionettes (Ingmar Bergman, 1980) ****
102. Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini, 1947) ***
103. Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Bertrand Blier, 1978) ***
104. Gomorrah (Matteo Gorrone, 2008) **½
105. Goodbye Lenin (Wolfgang Becker, 2003) ***
106. Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata, 1988) ****
107. Hana-Bi (Takeshi Kitano, 1997) ***
108. Happy Together (Wong Kar Wai, 2007) ** 
109. Head-On (Fatih Akin, 2004) ***½
110. Hero (Zhang Yimou, 2002) ***
111. Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959) ***½ 
112. Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman, 1968) ***½
113. House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou, 2004) ****
114. I Saw the Devil (Kim Ji-woon, 2010) ***
115. I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini, 1953) ***
116. I’ve Loved You So Long (Philip Claudel, 2008) ***½
117. Ichi the Killer (Takashi Miike, 2001) ***
118. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952) ***½
119. Il Divo (Paolo Sorrentino, 2008) **
120. In A Year with 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978) **
121. In the Land of Blood and Honey (Angelina Jolie, 2011) ***
122. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000) ***
123. In the Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Oshima, 1976) **
124. Irreversible (Gasper Noe, 2002) ****
125. Ivan’s Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1962) ***½
126. Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles(Chantal Akerman, 1975) ***
127. Jeux Interdits (Rene Clement, 1952) ***
128. Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1954) ***
129. Jules et Jim (Francois Truffaut, 1960) **
130. Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa, 1980) ***½
131. Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin, 2004) **
132. Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders, 1976) BOMB
133. Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski, 1962) ***
134. Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow, 2005) ****
135. L’Argent (Robert Bresson, 1983) **
136. L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934) **
137. L’Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960) **
138. La Belle Et La Bete (Jean Cocteau, 1946) ***½ 
139. La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette, 1991) **
140. La Bete Humaine (Jean Renoir, 1938) ****
141. La Cage Aux Folles (Edouard Molinaro, 1978) ***
142. La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) BOMB
143. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960) **½
144. La Femme Infidele (Claude Chabrol, 1968) *** 
145. La Femme Nikita (Luc Besson, 1990) ***
146. La Grande Bouffe (Marco Ferreri, 1973) BOMB
147. La Grande Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937) ***½
148. La Guerre Est Finie (Alain Resnais, 1966) ***½
149. La Haine (Matthieu Kassovitz, 1995) ****
150. La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962) ***
151. La Maman Et La Putain (Jean Eustache, 1973) ****
152. La Marseillaise (Jean Renoir, 1938) ***½
153. La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961) **½
154. La Peau Douce (Francois Truffaut, 1964) ***½
155. La Regle Du Jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939) ****
156. La Ronde (Max Ophuls, 1950) ***
157. La Strada (Federico Fellini, 1954) ****
158. La Terra Trama (Luchino Visconti, 1948) **
159. La Vie de Boheme (Aki Kaurismaki, 1992) ***½
160. L'Appartement (Gilles Mimouni, 1996) ****
161. Last Life in the Universe (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, 2003) ***½
162. Last Train Home (Lixin Fan, 2009) ***½
163. Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961) **½
164. Late Spring (Ozu Yasujiro, 1949) ***½
165. Le Boucher (Claude Chabrol, 1970) ***
166. Le Crime De Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir, 1936) ***½ 
167. Le Jour Se Leve (Marcel Carne, 1939) ***½
168. Le Mepris/Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963) ***½
169. Le Quattro Volte (Michelangelo Frammartino, 2010) BOMB
170. Le Rayon Vert (Eric Rohmer, 1986) ***½
171. L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962) **½
172. L'Enfant Sauvage (Francois Truffaut, 1970) ***½
173. Leolo (Jean-Claude Lauzon, 1992) ***½
174. Les Biches (Claude Chabrol, 1968) ***
175. Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot) ***½
176. Les Enfants Du Paradis (Marcel Carne 1945) **
177. Les Valseuses (Bertrand Blier, 1974) ***½
178. Les Visiteurs Du Soir (Marcel Carne, 1942) ***
179. Les Yeux Sans Visage (Georges Franju, 1960) ***
180. Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008) **½
181. Let’s Talk about the Rain (Agnès Jaoui, 2008) ***
182. Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood, 2006) ***
183. Lilya 4-Ever (Lukas Moodysson, 2002) ***½
184. Live Flesh (Pedro Almodovar, 1997) ***½
185. Lola (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1981) ***
186. Look at Me (Agnes Jaoui, 2004) ***½
187. Lorna’s Silence (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2008) ***
188. Los Olvidados (Luis Bunuel, 1950) ***
189. Love is Colder than Death (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1969) **
190. Made in USA (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966) ***
191. Ma Nuit Chez Maud (Eric Rohmer, 1969) ****
192. Ma Vie Sexuelle (Arnaud Desplechin, 1996) ****
193. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929) ****
194. Man Without A Past (Aki Kaurismaki, 2002) ***½
195. Maria Full of Grace (Joshua Marston, 2004) ***½
196. Masculin Féminin (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966) **
197. Matador (Pedro Almodovar, 1986) ***½
198. Memories of Murder (Joon-ho Bong, 2003) ****
199. Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927) ****
200. Micmacs (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2009) ****
201. Millenium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2001) **
202. Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1974) **½
203. Mon Uncle (Jacques Tati, 1958) ***
204. Monrak Transistor (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, 2001) ****
205. Monsieur Lazhar  (Philippe Falardeau, 2011)***
206. Mouchette (Robert Bresson, 1966) **½
207. Mr Hulot’s Holiday (Jacques Tati, 1953) **½
208. Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle, 1971) **
209. My Sassy Girl (Kwak Jae-Young, 2001) ****
210. Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957) ***½
211. Nine Queens (Fabian Bielinsky, 2000) ***½
212. Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2004) **
213. Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983) ***
214. Oasis (Lee Chang-Dong, 2002) ***½
215. Of Gods and Men (Xavier Beauvois, 2010) ***
216. Oldboy (Park Chan-Wook, 2003) ***½
217. Once Upon A Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011) ***
218. One Plus One (Jean-Luc Godard, 1968) BOMB
219. Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo, 1964) ***½
220. Open City (Roberto Rossellini, 1945) ***½
221. Open Your Eyes (Alejandro Amenabar, 1998) **** 
222. Ordet (Carl Dreyer, 1955) **
223. OSS 117: Lost in Rio (Michel Hazanavicius, 2009) ***
224. Ossessione (Luchino Visconti, 1943) ****
225. Paisa (Roberto Rossellini, 1946) ***
226. Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro, 2006) ***
227. Paris Belongs to Us (Jacques Rivette, 1960) ***½
228. Passenger (Andrzej Munk, 1963) ****
229. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955) ***
230. Pepe Le Moko (Julien Duvivier, 1937) ****
231. Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi, 2007) ***
232. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966) ****
233. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959) ***½
234. Pierrot Le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965) **½
235. Pixote (Hector Babenco, 1981) ***
236. Play Time (Jacques Tati, 1967) ***
237. Plein Soleil (Rene Clement, 1960) ***½
238. Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) ***½
239. Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki, 1997) **½
240. Princess Yang Kwei-Fei (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1955) ***
241. Quai Des Brumes (Marcel Carne, 1938) ***½
242. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou, 1991) ***½
243. Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985) ***½
244. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950) ***
245. Rififi (Jules Dassin, 1955) ***½
246. Ringu (Hideo Nakata, 1998) ***
247. Rocco And His Brothers (Luchino Visconti, 1960) ****
248. Romance (Catherine Breillat, 1999) **
249. Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer, 1998) ***½
250. Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov, 2002) **
251. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paulo Pasolini, 1975) BOMB
252. Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi, 1962) **½
253. Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983) ***½
254. Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954) ****
255. Saraband (Ingmar Bergman, 2003) ***½
256. Satantango (Bela Tarr, 1994) ***
257. Save the Green Planet (Jeong Jun-Hwan, 2003) ****
258. Sawdust and Tinsel (Ingmar Bergman, 1953) ***½
259. Scenes From A Marriage (Ingmar Bergman, 1973) ****
260. Seven Beauties (Lina Wertmuller, 1976) **
261. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954) ***½
262. Shame (Ingmar Bergman, 1968) ****
263. Shoeshine (Vittorio De Sica, 1946) ***
264. Shoot the Piano Player (Francois Truffaut, 1961) ***
265. Show Me Love (Lukas Moodyson, 1998) ***½
266. Simon of the Desert (Luis Bunuel, 1965) ***½
267. Small Change (Francois Truffaut, 1976) ***½
268. Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman, 1955) ***½
269. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972) **
270. Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano, 1993) ***½
271. Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson, 2000) **
272. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001) ***
273. Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter (Kim Ki-Duk, 2003) ***½
274. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979) **½
275. Stolen Kisses (Francois Truffaut, 1968) **** 
276. Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa, 1949) ***½
277. Strike (Sergei Eisenstein, 1924) ***
278. Subway (Luc Besson, 1985) ***
279. Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me (Francois Truffaut, 1972) ***½
280. Summer Interlude (Ingmar Bergman, 1951) ***½
281. Summer with Monika (Ingmar Bergman, 1953) ***½
282. Sundays and Cybele (Sege Bourguignon, 1962) ***
283. Sunday's Children (Daniel Bergman, 1992) ***½
284. Swept Away...by an Unusual Destiny…. (Lina Wertmuller, 1975) **½
285. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar, 2002) ***
286. Tampopo (Juzo Itami, 1987) ***½
287. Tears of the Black Tiger (Wisit Sasanatieng, 2000) ***½
288. Tell No One (Guillaume Canet, 2006) ***
289. That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Bunuel, 1977) ***½
290. The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959) **½
291. The Baader Meinhof Complex (Uli Edel, 2008) **
292. The Barbarian Invasions (Denys Arcand, 2003) ***½
293. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1965) ****
294. The Beaches of Agnes (Agnes Varda, 2008) ***½
295. The Beat that My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard, 2005) **½
296. The Best Intentions (Bille August, 1992) ***
297. The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972)  BOMB
298. The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa, 1956) ***½
299. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1919) ***½
300. The Child (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2005) ****
301. The Class (Laurent Cantet, 2008) ****  
302. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970) ****
303. The Crime Of Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir, 1936) ***½
304. The Death of Mr Lazerescu (Cristi Puiu, 2005) ***
305. The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoise (Luis Bunuel, 1972) ****
306. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel, 2007) ****
307. The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1991) **
308. The Dreamlife of Angels (Erick Zonca, 1998) ***½
309. The Earrings of Madame De… (Max Ophuls, 1953) **
310. The Edukators (Hans Weingartner, 2004) ***½
311. The Elephant Keeper (Chatrichalerm Yukol, 1987) ***
312. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog, 1974) **½
313. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel, 1962) ***½
314. The Funeral (Juzo Itami, 1984) ***
315. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Vittorio De Sica, 1971) ***
316. The Gleaners and I (Agnès Varda, 2000)***
317. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964) **½
318. The Happiness of the Katakuris (Takashi Miike, 2001) ***½
319. The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa, 1958) ****
320. The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel, 2004) **
321. The Host (Boon Joon-Ho, 2006) **½
322. The House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou, 2004) ****
323. The Human Condition Pt.1: No Greater Love (Masaki Kobayashi, 1958) ***½
324. The Human Condition Pt.2: Road to Eternity (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959) ***½
325. The Human Condition Pt.3: A Soldier's Prayer (Masaki Kobayashi, 1961) ***½
326. The Idiots (Lars Von Trier, 1998) BOMB
327. The Isle (Kim Ki-Duk, 2000) **½
328. The Kid with A Bike (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2011 ) ***
329. The Last Metro (Francois Truffaut, 1980) ***½
330. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963) **
331. The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952) ****
332. The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck, 2006) ****
333. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Volker Schlondorff, Margarethe Von Trotta, 1975) ***½
334. The Magic Flute (Ingmar Bergman, 1975) **
335. The Middleman (Satyajit Ray, 1976) ****
336. The Milky Way (Luis Bunuel, 1969) ***
337. The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles, 2004) **
338. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1927) ***
339. The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Bunuel, 1974) ***
340. The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke, 2001) ***½
341. The Pornographers (Shohei Imamura, 1966) **
342. The Raid: Redemption (Gareth Evans, 2011) ***½
343. The Red Circle (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970) **½
344. The Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964) ***
345. The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986) ***
346. The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954) ***½
347. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957) **½
348. The Shop on Main Street (Jan Kadar, Elmar Klos, 1965) ****
349. The Silence (Ingmar Bergman, 1963) ***½
350. The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodovar, 2011) ***
351. The Son (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2003) ****
352. The Son's Room (Nanni Moretti, 2001) ***½
353. The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophuls, 1969) ***½
354. The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973) ***
355. The Story of Adele H. (Francois Truffaut, 1975) **
356. The Third Generation (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979) BOMB
357. The Time of the Gypsies (Emir Kusturica, 1989) ***½
358. The Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke, 2003)  ****
359. The Tin Drum (Volker Schlondorff, 1979) ****
360. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964) BOMB
361. The Vanishing (George Sluizer, 1988) ***½
362. The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman, 1960) ***
363. The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953) ****
364. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, 2009) ***½
365. Three Colours: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993) **
366. Three Colours: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994) **½
367. Three Colours: White (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994) *** 
368. Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa, 1957) ***½
369. Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman, 1961) **½
370. Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami,  1994) ***½
371. Tesis (Alejandro Amenábar, 1996) ***½
372. Together (Lukas Moodysson, 2000) ***
373. Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki, 1966) **½
374. Tokyo Olympiad (Kon Ichikawa, 1965) ***
375. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953) ****
376. Tout Va Bien (Jean-Luc Godard 1972) ***½ 
377. Tristana (Luis Bunuel, 1970) **½
378. Troll Hunter (André Ovredal, 2010) ***½
379. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004) BOMB
380. Twenty-Four Eyes (Keisuke Kinoshita, 1954) ***½
381. Ugetsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953) ****
382. Umberto D (Vittorio De Sica, 1951) **½
383. Underground (Emir Kusturica, 1995) ****
384. Uzak/Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2002) **½
385. Visitor Q (Takashi Miike, 2001) **
386. Vivre Sa Vie (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962) ****
387. Volver (Pedro Almodovar, 2006) ***
388. Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008) ***½
389. We Have A Pope (Nanni Moretti, 2011) **
390. Week End (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) **** 
391. Where Is the Friend's Home? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987) ***
392. White Material (Claire Denis, 2008) **½
393. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957) ***½  
394. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1988) ****
395. Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman, 1962) ***½
396. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar, 1988) ***½
397. WR - Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev, 1971) **
398. Y Tu Mama Tambien (Alfonso Cuaron, 2001) **½
399. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, 1961) ****
400. Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano, 2003) ***½