Amy Taubin.A CONTRIBUTING EDITOR OF FILM COMMENT AND SIGHT & SOUND, AMY A`my´ n. 1. A friend. TAUBIN IS THE AUTHOR OF TAXI DRIVER (BFI BFI - brute force and ignorance , 2000) 1 Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville) Made in 1968 but never before released in the United States, this austere, tragic thriller about a French Resistance cell is Melville's masterpiece. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2 Southland Tales (Richard Kelly) A sprawling piece of pop surrealism about the End Days in Los Angeles, unfurled with tenderness and pizzazz by the director of Donnie Darko, it may never again be seen in the two-and-a-half-hour version shown at Cannes. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 3 Inland Empire (David Lynch) If Richard Kelly finds his brand of surrealism surfing the digiscape, David Lynch burrows deep into the rabbit hole of his own unconscious for a similarly hallucinatory hal·lu·ci·na·to·ry adj. 1. Of or characterized by hallucination. 2. Inducing or causing hallucination. but darker and dirtier vision of Hollywood hell. 4 When the Levees Broke (Spike Lee) Subtitled A Requiem in Four Acts, Lee's Hurricane Katrina documentary is at once epic and intimate, analytic and emotive. Made for HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy and already released on DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. , it deserves to be seen on the big screen. 5 Shoot the Messenger (Ngozi Onwurah) The collaboration of three black, British talents--director Onwurah, writer Sharon Foster, and actor David Oyelowo--pays off in a fearless, flamboyantly theatrical social satire about black identity and self-hatred. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 6 Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt) A fragile, exquisitely detailed journey-into-nature film about what we've lost. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 7 The Host (Bong Joon-ho) Anti-American allegories abound in Korea's biggest box-office and critical success. A giant, people-eating, mutant tadpole tadpole, larval, aquatic stage of any of the amphibian animals. After hatching from the egg, the tadpole, sometimes called a polliwog, is gill-breathing and legless and propels itself by means of a tail. wreaks havoc in Seoul's working-class (read: expendable) neighborhoods. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 8 Ideas of Order in Cinque Terre (Ken Kobland; 2005) and Liberte et Patrie (Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Mieville; 2002) Two ravishingly rav·ish·ing adj. Extremely attractive; entrancing. rav  ish·ing·ly adv.Adv. 1. beautiful short films shot and distributed digitally, both of which made their New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of debuts this year (at the Tribeca and New York film festivals, respectively). 9 Mutual Recognition (Andrew Bujalski) Bujalski's second feature is as precisely tuned to the speech, manners, and mores of his post-BA, middle-class peers as was his 2002 debut, Funny Ha Ha. 10 Fast Food Nation (Richard Linklater) Adapted from Eric Schlosser's investigative best seller, this is the most confrontational, populist, politically necessary American fiction film of the year. |
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