Taegugki, a Korean epic about two brothers who find themselves on the opposite sides in the Korean war (and on the opposite ends of the moral scale). Battle scenes are supposedly intense and make the effects in Saving Private Ryan look rather mundane!
2046 - The Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai's new film and the long-anticipated follow-up to his 2000 art-house favorite, "In the Mood for Love" (which had recieved widespread an unqualified triumph," writes Manohla Dargis. In the movie, "a story of longing and loss, the passage of time is marked not by the hands of a clock, but by the women who pass through one man's life." To further quote Dargis' review, Wong "is less interested in love than in its wreckage, in the sighs, tears and agonies that sometimes follow in love's wake. One of the first images in "2046" is of the epigram "all memories are traces of tears," a bit of throw-pillow sentimentalism that might sound ominously maudlin if the tears in Mr. Wong's films didn't corrode like acid." The movie raked in 30 million Yuan, or US$3.6 million, over its first ten days at the Chinese box office and is in limited release in Manhattan and Los Angeles today- August 5, 2005
Paradise Now, directed by Hany Abu-Assad and Golden Globe winner & nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign language film and in 2005 (Read reviews; See Trailer)
"Paradise Now" follows the last few days of two suicide bombers. Dutch-based Palestinian filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad has designed the story so that a number of different viewpoints on this tragic Middle Eastern form of terrorism get aired. While nothing truly new or shocking emerges, the film does bring clarity and compassion to its depiction of an act that baffles, angers and sickens people the world over.
Lila Says [French/Arabic with English Subtitles] by Ziad Doueiri , which made its US premier at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.
Yes..Yes.. Yes.. rave reviews for YES, the story of a passionate love affair between an American woman (Joan Allen) and a Middle-Eastern man (Simon Abkarian) in which they confront some of the greatest conflicts of our generation - religious, political and sexual. Hear from the director, Sally Porter on the making of "Yes" after 9/11
Rituparno Ghosh's latest, Dosar, - a very engrossing film about a young housewife Kaberi (played by Konkana Sen Sharma, who gets better with each performance) who simultaneously finds out that her husband has been in a near-fatal car accident and that he was having an affair with a married colleague. - Read the entire post by Jabberwock @ his blogpost
Beyond the SeaMovie about "Mack the Knife" singer Bobby Darin (Kevin Spacey) and his relationship with his wife, Sandra Dee (Kate Bosworth).
Killing Words
Robert Altman's Short Cuts (Ebert review)
Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon (Ebert review)
