Reviews

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127 Hours (Danny Boyle, 2010)
35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis, 2008)*

A
After Lucia (Michel Franco, 2012)*
The Amazing Spider-Man (Marc Webb, 2012)
America America (Elia Kazan, 1963)
Amour (Michael Haneke, 2012)
NEW Amsterdam Stories (Rob Rombout and Rogier Van Eck, 2012)*
And Hope to Die (René Clément, 1972)*
Animal Kingdom (David Michôd, 2010)
NEW Animal Love (Ulrich Seidl, 1996)*
NEW An Anthropological Television Myth (Maria Helene Bertino, Dario Castelli and Alessandro Gagliardo, 2012)*
Antiviral (Brandon Cronenberg, 2012)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)*
Archipelago (Joanna Hogg, 2010)
Argo (Ben Affleck, 2012)
The Art of Time (Fergus Daly and Katherine Waugh, 2009)*
NEW Art Will Save the World (Niall McCann, 2012)*
The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius, 2011)
Aurora (Cristi Puiu, 2010)
Aurora (Cristi Puiu, 2010)*
NEW Avanti Popolo (Michael Wahrmann, 2012)*

B
NEW Babylon (Ala Eddine Slim and Ismaël and Youssef Chebbi, 2012)*
Baraka (Ron Fricke, 1992)
Bayou Blue (Alix Lambert and David McMahon, 2012)*
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin, 2012) 
NEW Beyond the Hills (Cristian Mungiu, 2012) 
Biutiful (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2010)
Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 2010)
Bonjour tristesse (Otto Preminger, 1958)*
NEW Breath of the Gods: A Journey to the Origins of Modern Yoga (Jan Schmidt-Garre, 2013)*
Brighton Rock (Rowan Joffe, 2010) 
Broken City (Allen Hughes, 2013)*
Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey (John Little, 2000)* 
Bullet to the Head (Walter Hill, 2012)
Bullhead (Michaël R. Roskam, 2011)
Butterflies Have No Memories (Lav Diaz, 2009)*
Bye Bye Birdie (George Sidney, 1963)

C
The Caine Mutiny (Edward Dmytryk, 1954)
NEW Captured [+ others] (John Krish, 1959-1977)
NEW Cargo 200 (Alexey Balabanov, 2007)*
Carnage (Roman Polanski, 2011)
Casa de Lava (Pedro Costa, 1994)*
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog, 2010)
Cemetery Junction (Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, 2010)
The Central Park Five (Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon, 2012)*
Century of a Birthing (Lav Diaz, 2011)*
Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962)
Cloud Atlas (Tom Tykwer and Andy & Lana Wachowski, 2012)
NEW The COI Collection, Vol. 8: Your Children and You (various, 1946-1985)
Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa, 2006)*
The Confrontation (Miklós Jancsó, 1968)
Contagion (Steven Soderbergh, 2011)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)*
The Cremator (Juraj Herz, 1969)
Crossfire Hurricane (Brett Morgen, 2012)
Cry Danger (Robert Parrish, 1951)

D
A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg, 2011)
The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan, 2012)
The Dead (Los muertos) (Lisandro Alonso, 2004)*
The Deadly Trap (René Clément, 1971)*
The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies, 2011)
The Descendants (Alexander Payne, 2011)
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (Hark Tsui, 2011)*
Diamonds of the Night (Jan Němec, 1964)
Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, 2012)
Double Tide (Sharon Lockhart, 2009)*
NEW A Dream's Merchant (Bogdan Ilie-Michu, 2012)*
Dredd (Pete Travis, 2012)
Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011)

E
NEW East Hastings Pharmacy (Antoine Bourges, 2012)*
Eat Sleep Die (Gabriela Pichler, 2012)*
Éden (Bruno Safadi, 2012)* 
Elena (Andrei Zvyagintsev, 2011)
End of Watch (David Ayer, 2012) 
NEW Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema (Wojciech Marczewski, 1990)
Essential Killing (Jerzy Skolimowski, 2010)

F
Fairy Tales (various, 1901-1908)
NEW Faith, Love and Whiskey (Kristina Nikolova, 2012)* 
Fallen City (Zhao Qi, 2011)
Fantasma (Lisandro Alonso, 2006)*
NEW Fata Morgana (Peter Schreiner, 2013)*
Fate (Fred Kelemen, 1994)*
Father (Aita) (José María de Orbe, 2010)
Finisterrae (Sergio Caballero, 2010)*
Five (Abbas Kiarostami, 2003)* 
Forbidden Games (René Clément, 1952)*
Four Lions (Chris Morris, 2010)
Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock, 1972)*
From Beyond (Stuart Gordon, 1986)
From the Sea to the Land Beyond (Penny Woolcock, 2012)*
Frost (Fred Kelemen, 1997)*

G
Gangster Squad (Ruben Fleischer, 2013)
NEW Gazzara (Joseph Rezwin, 2012)*
Gervaise (René Clément, 1956)*
The Ghost (Roman Polanski, 2010)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Niels Arden Oplev, 2009)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher, 2011)
NEW Gone Wild (Dan Curean, 2012)*
A Good Day to Die Hard (John Moore, 2013)
NEW Greatest Hits (Nicolás Pereda, 2012)*

H 
Headhunters (Morten Tyldum, 2011)
Heat Lightning (Mervyn LeRoy, 1934)*
Heremias Book II (Lav Diaz, 2008)*
Hitchcock (Sacha Gervasi, 2012)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Peter Jackson, 2012)
Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)
Honour of the Knights (Quixotic) (Albert Serra, 2006)*
Hors Satan (Bruno Dumont, 2011)
NEW Housemaids (Gabriel Mascaro, 2012)*
Houston (Bastian Günther, 2013)
Hugo (Martin Scorsese, 2011)
The Hunt (Thomas Vinterberg, 2012)

I
I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino, 2009)
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Ming-liang Tsai, 2006) 
NEW I Have Always Been a Dreamer (Sabine Gruffat, 2012)* 

NEW Illumination (Krzysztof Zanussi, 1972)
The Impossible (Juan Antonio Bayona, 2012)
Incendies (Denis Villeneuve, 2010) 
Independencia (Raya Martin, 2009)*
The Interrupters (Steve James, 2011)*
Intimate Lighting (Ivan Passer, 1965)
It Was the Son (Daniele Ciprì, 2012)*

J
Jack Reacher (Christopher McQuarrie, 2012)
Jane Eyre (Cary Fukunaga, 2011)
The Jeffrey Dahmer Files (Chris James Thompson)*
NEW Jesus, You Know (Ulrich Seidl)*
Jewel Robbery (William Dieterle, 1932)*
Jiseul (Muel O., 2012)

K 
Kelly + Victor (Kieran Evans, 2012)*
Kes (Ken Loach, 1969)* 
The Kid with a Bike (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2011)
The Killer Inside Me (Michael Winterbottom, 2010)
Killing Them Softly (Andrew Dominik, 2012)
The King's Speech (Tom Hooper, 2010)

L
NEW La Playa D.C. (Juan Andrés Arango, 2012)*
Las Acacias (Pablo Giorgelli, 2011)* 
Lawless (John Hillcoat, 2012) 
Le quattro volte (Michelangelo Frammartino, 2010)
NEW Leones (Jazmin Lopéz, 2012)*
Les Misérables (Tom Hooper, 2012)
Let Each One Go Where He May (Ben Russell, 2009)*
Liberty (La Libertad) (Lisandro Alonso, 2001)*
Life of Pi (Ang Lee, 2012)
Limitless (Neil Burger, 2011)
Lincoln (Steven Spielberg, 2012)
London: The Modern Bablyon (Julien Temple, 2012)
Looper (Rian Johnson, 2012)
Love (William Eubank, 2011)*
NEW The Love Songs of Tiedan (Hao Jie, 2012)*
The Loves of Pharaoh (Ernst Lubitsch, 1922)*
Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbours (Rirkrit Tiravanija, 2011)*
Lust for Love (Edgar Reitz, 1967)*

M
Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh, 2012)
NEW Magpie (Marc Price, 2013)*
NEW Maniac (Franck Khalfoun, 2012)
Manila Skies (Raymond Red, 2009)
Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin, 2011)
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
The Mayor of Hell (Archie Mayo, 1933)
NEW Me Too (Alexey Balabanov, 2012)*
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (Alex Gibney, 2012)
Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010)
Melancholia (Lav Diaz, 2008)*
Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)
The Meteor (François Delisle, 2013)
Michael (Markus Schleinzer, 2011)
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird, 2011) 
The Moo Man (Andy Heathcote, 2013)
Mother and Son (Alexander Sokurov, 1997) 
NEW My House Without Me (Magdalena Szymków, 2012)*

N
NEW Neighbouring Sounds (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2012)
Never Let Me Go (Mark Romanek, 2010)
Nightfall (Fred Kelemen, 1999)*
Nightfall (James Benning, 2011)*

O
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011) 

P
NEW Paradise: Faith (Ulrich Seidl, 2012)*
NEW Paradise: Hope (Ulrich Seidl, 2013)*
NEW Paradise: Love (Ulrich Seidl, 2012)*
Partners in Crime (Pascal Thomas, 2012)*
NEW Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man (Alberto Negrin, 2002)
Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands (Peter Mettler, 2009) 
NEW Pincus (David Fenster, 2012)*
The Pool (Chris Smith, 2007)* 
Prometheus (Ridley Scott, 2012)
NEW The Promised Land (Andrzej Wajda, 1975)

R
Rabbit Hole (John Cameron Mitchell, 2010)
NEW The Rambler (Calvin Lee Reeder, 2013)*
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (Jalmari Helander, 2010)*
NEW Resolution (Justin Benson and Aaron Scott Moorhead, 2012)*
A River Changes Course (Kalyanee Mam, 2013)
Robinson in Ruins (Patrick Keiller, 2010)
Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov, 2002)*
Rust and Bone (Jacques Audiard, 2012)

S
The Salt of Life (Gianni Di Gregorio, 2011)
Samsara (Ron Fricke, 2011)
A Screaming Man (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 2010)
Seven Psychopaths (Martin McDonagh, 2012)
Shame (Steven McQueen, 2011)
Shaolin (Benny Chan, 2011)*
Side Effects (Steven Soderbergh, 2013)
Sightseers (Ben Wheatley, 2012)
Silence (Pat Collins, 2012)*
The Silence (Baran bo Odar, 2010)
The Silent House (Gustavo Hernández, 2010)
Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, 2007)*
Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell, 2012)
Skyfall (Sam Mendes, 2012)
Slow Action (Ben Rivers, 2010)*
Snowtown (Justin Kurzel, 2011)
The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)
Soka Afrika (Suridh Hassan)
Soldier Jane (Daniel Hoest, 2013)
NEW Somebody Up There Likes Me (Bob Byington, 2012)* 
Song for Marion (Paul Andrew Williams, 2012)
Southern Comfort (Walter Hill, 1981)
NEW The Spirit of '45 (Ken Loach, 2013)
NEW Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012)
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring (Kim Ki-duk, 2003)*
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)*
Steel: A Century of Steelmaking on Film (various, 1901-1987)
Still Life (Zhangke Jia, 2006)*
NEW The Stoker (Alexey Balabanov, 2010)*
Submarine (Richard Ayoade, 2010)
The Summit (Nick Ryan, 2012)
Swandown (Andrew Kötting, 2012)
Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)

T
This Is England '86 (Shane Meadows, 2010)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson, 2011)
To the Wonder (Terrence Malick, 2012)
NEW Tokyo Waka (John Haptas and Kristine Samuelson, 2012)*
Tomorrow (Andrei Gryazev, 2012)*
Toy Story 3 (John Lasseter, 2010)
NEW Trance (Danny Boyle, 2013) 
Transylvania (Tony Gatlif, 2006)*
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
True Grit (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2010)
Tsar to Lenin (Herman Axelbank and Max Eastman, 1937)
The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr, 2011)*
Turnabout (Hal Roach, 1940)
Two Years at Sea (Ben Rivers, 2011)
Tyrannosaur (Paddy Considine, 2011) 

V
Village at the End of the World (Sarah Gavron, 2012)*  
NEW Vito (Jeffrey Schwarz, 2011)* 

W
Wadjda (Haifaa al-Mansour, 2012)*
Wajma (An Afghan Love Story) (Barmak Akram, 2013)
War Horse (Steven Spielberg, 2011) 
War Trilogy: Zvenigora, Arsenal, Earth (Oleksandr Dovzhenko, 1928-1930)*
We Are Poets (Alex Ramseyer-Bache and Daniel Lucchesi, 2011)*
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay, 2011)
West Side Story (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, 1961)*
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich, 1962)*
Wings (William A. Wellman, 1927)*
Winter's Bone (Debra Granik, 2010)
Wonderful London (Harry B. Parkinson and Frank Miller, 1924)*
NEW Workers (José Luis Valle, 2013)*
Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold, 2011)*

Y
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (Alain Resnais, 2012)
NEW You're Human Like the Rest of Them [+ others] (B. S. Johnson, 1967-1973)
You've Been Trumped (Anthony Baxter, 2011)*

Z
Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012) 

Guest contributions
The Adjustment Bureau (George Nofli, 2011), by Srini S.
Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance, 2010), by Srini S.
Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy, 2010), by Srini S.
The Fighter (David O. Russell, 2010), by Srini S.
Mother (Joon-ho Bong, 2009), by Phil Hogan
The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr, 2011), by Srini S. 
The White Meadows (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2009), by Srini S.