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Susan Sontag

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Persona (1966) 91% EDIT “A succession of ever more difficult and rewarding films has turned up in recent years. But that good fortune releases nobody who cares about films from acclaiming work as original and triumphant as Persona.” – Sight & Sound May 3, 2024 Full Review Muriel (1963) 80% EDIT “[Resnais's] films lack tonicity and vigor, directness of address. They are cautious, somehow, overburdened and synthetic. They do not go to the end, either of the idea or of the emotion which inspires them, which all great art must do.” – Film Quarterly May 3, 2024 Full Review Flaming Creatures (1963) EDIT “Flaming Creatures is a triumphant example of an aesthetic vision of the world -- and such a vision is perhaps always, at its core, epicene. But this type of art has yet to be understood in this country.” – The Nation May 2, 2024 Full Review My Life to Live (1962) 91% EDIT “Vivre Sa Vie seems to me a perfect film. That is, it sets out to do something that is both noble and intricate, and wholly succeeds in doing it.” – Moviegoer May 2, 2024 Full Review Smoking/No Smoking (1994) EDIT “[A] brilliant, ingenious, hilarious film.” – Artforum May 2, 2024 Full Review Mosaferan (1992) EDIT “Trust me, this masterpiece from Iran is unlike anything you’ve seen yet.” – Artforum May 2, 2024 Full Review The Captive (2000) 79% EDIT “Atypically movieish (i.e., Hitchcockian) for Ackerman but still adamant, unpredictable.” – Artforum May 2, 2024 Full Review The Circle (2000) 94% EDIT “Another marvel from Iran. A relentless, anguishing film.” – Artforum May 2, 2024 Full Review Hamlet (2000) 59% EDIT “Witty, intelligent, and most convincing when it’s altogether over the top.” – Artforum May 2, 2024 Full Review The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) 97% EDIT “The best-known Iranian director has made another incomparable film.” – Artforum May 2, 2024 Full Review Beau travail (1999) 87% EDIT “A dazzling riff on Melville’s Billy Budd. You’ll never forget the final scene, when the amazing Denis Lavant starts to dance.” – Artforum May 2, 2024 Full Review Humanité (2000) 69% EDIT “A very ambitious film about looking and about guilt.” – Artforum May 2, 2024 Full Review Faithless (2000) 85% EDIT “Ullmann’s best work by far, with one of the greatest film performances ever, by Lena Endre.” – Artforum May 2, 2024 Full Review Yi Yi (2000) 97% EDIT “Is Yang as great as Hou Hsiao-hsien? Well, he’s different. See this.” – Artforum May 2, 2024 Full Review Intimacy (2001) 66% EDIT “Worth seeing just for the performances. Mark Rylance may be the most gifted English-language actor of his generation.” – Artforum May 2, 2024 Full Review Moloch (1999) 60% EDIT “Ravishing, weird, insolent.” – Artforum May 2, 2024 Full Review Last Resort (2000) 94% EDIT “A superb British filmmaker, Pawlikowski is equally gifted in fiction (like this film, about the plight in bleakest England of a young Russian émigré and her son) and in documentary.” – Artforum May 2, 2024 Full Review The River (1997) 75% EDIT “Nobody pictures despair -- and silence -- like [Tsai Ming-liang], who uses the same actors, often the same apartment location, in film after film.” – Artforum May 2, 2024 Full Review The Gleaners and I (2000) 93% EDIT “A thrilling subject, and Varda’s best film since Vagabond.” – Artforum May 2, 2024 Full Review Journey to the Sun (1999) 80% EDIT “An important, unaffected film that takes you somewhere you don’t know... and makes you feel and think -- and care.” – Artforum May 2, 2024 Full Review Waking Life (2001) 81% EDIT “A melancholy youth ambles almost wordlessly through deep America -- rendered in dancy graphics -- receiving counsel from a parade of uproariously soliloquizing, exquisitely goofy pundits.” – Artforum May 2, 2024 Full Review The Piano Teacher (2001) 75% EDIT “Not Haneke’s best film, but Isabelle Huppert is stupendous.” – Artforum May 2, 2024 Full Review Southern Comfort (2001) 95% EDIT “You’ll never forget this documentary’s wise hero.” – Artforum May 2, 2024 Full Review Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) 98% EDIT “Tarr continues his magistral collaboration with Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, who wrote Sátántangó as well as the source of this film.” – Artforum May 2, 2024 Full Review Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996) 100% EDIT “As amazing as [Hou Hsiao-hsien's] stately, subtle, beautiful Flowers of Shanghai.” – Artforum May 2, 2024 Full Review
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