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导演 : Ethan Coen/Joel Coen
主演 : Simon Helberg/Richard Kind

评语 : 09/12: While true to the Coens' absurdist spirit, 'A Serious Man' - unusually for them - features a realistic, empathetic character in a realistic setting, the suburban Midwest in the 1960s. It's a fascinating mix

导演 : Lone Scherfig
主演 : Peter Sarsgaard/Carey Mulligan/Alfred Molina/Dominic Cooper/Rosamund Pike

评语 : 09/11:Nick Hornby's adaptation of journalist Lynn Barber's memoir of teenage seduction shows his trademark understated wit. But it's the nuanced touch of director Lone Scherfig that really makes it special

导演 : Agnès Varda
主演 : Agnès Varda/Mathieu Demy/Rosalie Varda

评语 : 09/10: Eighty-one this year, Agnès Varda looks back on a life that took her from the French New Wave to hippie-era Los Angeles and beyond, in a self-portrait that’s as rich and full as any autobiography

导演 : Antonio Campos
主演 : Danielle Baum/Emory Cohen/Rosemarie DeWitt

评语 : 09/09：Focused on a loner who can only relate to 'real life' through DIY video footage, Antonio Campos' cool, brave directing debut Afterschool is a high-school movie for the alienated YouTube generation

导演 : Courtney Hunt
主演 : Melissa Leo/Misty Upham/Charlie McDermott/Michael O'Keefe

评语 : 09/08：A bleak tale of people-smuggling in the icy terrain of the US/Canadian border, Courtney Hunt's Oscar-nominated Frozen River exemplifies US indies' new concern with the lives of the poor

导演 : Sam Raimi
主演 : Alison Lohman/Justin Long/Lorna Raver/Dileep Rao/David Paymer

评语 : 09/07：Sympathy for those working in the financial services industries may not be running high at the moment, yet even the most fervent anti-capitalist will feel pity for career girl Christine, faced with an eternity of infernal torment after being hexed b

导演 : Gideon Koppel

评语 : 09/06：As an honest and moving portrait of a year in the life of a small rural community in mid Wales, Gideon Koppel's charming and naturalistic film beats its inspiration Dylan Thomas hands down

导演 : Aditya Assarat
主演 : Anchalee Saisoontorn/Supphasit Kansen/Dul Yaambunying

评语 : 09/04：An engrossing and poetic debut from Thai director Aditya Assarat, Wonderful Town coolly sets the progress of a doomed love affair against the backdrop of a community devastated by the 2004 tsunami.

导演 : Tom Tykwer
主演 : Clive Owen/Naomi Watts/Armin Mueller-Stahl/Ulrich Thomsen/Brian F. O'Byrne

评语 : 09/03：With blistering action set pieces and a downbeat hero in the shape of Clive Owen, Tom Tykwer's new espionage thriller ,'The International' plays like a deglamorised, back-to-basics Bond.

导演 : Duane Hopkins
主演 : Freddie Cunliffe/Michael Socha/Patricia Loveland

评语 : 09/02：Better Things Duane Hopkins' first feature is an inventive, unclichéd example of British realism which shines a light into rarely explored social territory and the unexamined lives of its characters.

导演 : Béla Tarr/Ágnes Hranitzky
主演 : Miroslav Krobot/Tilda Swinton/Ági Szirtes/János Derzsi/Erika Bók

评语 : 09/01：Béla Tarr's latest film may initially appear to be his most conventional work to date, but the Hungarian director hasn't softened his uncompromising worldview in 'The Man from London'

导演 : Jamshed Usmonov

评语 : 0812 The Tajik director Djamshed Usmonov's latest film, 'To Get to Heaven First You Have to Die', is a darker work than its predecessors but confirms its creator as a bright talent of post-Soviet cinema

导演 : Terence Davies

评语 : 08/11：Film of the Month: Of Time and the City Terence Davies takes a fresh look at his home city and himself in 'Of Time and the City', his elegiac yet prickly documentary, a hymn to the culture of Liverpool's past and a critique of its development.

导演 : 王家卫
主演 : 张国荣/张曼玉/梁朝伟/林青霞/张学友/梁家辉/杨采妮/刘嘉玲/邹兆龙/王祖贤

评语 : 08/10：The definitive new version of Wong Kar-Wai's complex and visually stunning martial-arts epic in which east meets Western sees the film at last fulfilling its sizeable creative and commercial potential

导演 : Andrei Zvyagintsev
主演 : Aleksandr Baluyev/Maria Bonnevie/Konstantin Lavronenko/Dmitri Ulyanov/Maksim Shibayev

评语 : 08/09：Andrey Zvyagintsev's visually powerful and haunting second film explores the themes of family and masculinity in crisis says Julian Graffy and confirms the director's place at the forefront of the new wave of Russian cinema

导演 : Enrique Fernández/César Charlone
主演 : César Troncoso/Virginia Ruíz/Mario Silva/Virginia Ruiz/Nelson Lence/Henry De Leon

评语 : 08/08: The Pope's visit to a small town in Uruguay inspires unlikely get-rich-quick schemes among the locals in Fernández and Charlone's understated comedy about crime and catering.

导演 : Abdellatif Kechiche
主演 : Habib Boufares/Hafsia Herzi/Faridah Benkhetache

评语 : 08/07：Abdellatif Kechiche's perfectly paced story of a North African family's struggle in coastal France is told with the wit and warmth of classical cinema, yet with a very modern take on identity.

导演 : Pedro Costa

评语 : 08/06: Featuring the residents of a Lisbon slum, Pedro Costa's 'Colossal Youth' is a mesmeric, visually stunning portrait of a deprived community that confirms its director as one of Europe's major talents.

导演 : Joachim Lafosse
主演 : Jérémie Renier/Isabelle Huppert

评语 : 08/05: an austere family drama that opens a new chapter in Belgian social realism and features a keynote performance by Isabelle Huppert as a mother caught between duty and desire

导演 : Juan Antonio Bayona
主演 : Belén Rueda/Fernando Cayo/Roger Príncep/Mabel Rivera/Montserrat Carulla

评语 : 08/04: .A. Bayona's feature debut 'The Orphanage' uses the conventions of horror and ghost stories to explore Spain's need to face up to its buried history.

导演 : George A. Romero
主演 : Shawn Roberts/Megan Park/Michelle Morgan/Joshua Close/Amy Ciupak Lalonde

评语 : 08/03: a new flesh-eating zombie movie from director George A. Romero that resurrects the premise of 1968's Night of the Living Dead within the ongoing horror movie that is 21st-century America

导演 : Ethan Coen/Joel Coen
主演 : Tommy Lee Jones/Javier Bardem/Josh Brolin/Kelly Macdonald/Woody Harrelson/Garret Dillahunt/Tess Harper/Barry Corbin/Stephen Root/Rodger Boyce/Beth Grant/Kit Gwin

评语 : 08/02: he Coens have turned their trademark humour and genre subversion to a thriller about guns, drugs and money in 1980s Texas. But at its heart is an interrogation of American manhood

导演 : Cristian Mungiu
主演 : Adi Carauleanu/Luminita Gheorghiu/Vlad Ivanov/Anamaria Marinca/Alexandru Potocean

评语 : 08/01: Cristian Mungiu's drama about abortion in communist Romania mixes profound sympathy for its characters' ordeals with an eye for the grim absurdities of the society they live in.

导演 : Sean Penn
主演 : Emile Hirsch/Marcia Gay Harden/Kristen Stewart/Vince Vaughn/Jena Malone

评语 : 07/12: A recreation of the real-life journey of 22-year-old drop-out Chris McCandless from the comfort of Virginia to the solitude of Alaska proves the perfect vehicle for Sean Penn's directorial talents.

导演 : André Téchiné (安德烈·泰西内)
主演 : Emmanuelle Béart (艾曼纽·贝阿)/Michel Blanc (米歇尔·布朗克)

评语 : 07/11: André Téchiné's new film explores the impact of the Aids epidemic on a group of Parisians. Has distance lent a muted optimism, asks Ginette Vincendeau