FILMS
- Secrecy
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The seduction and power of secrets are at the core of this fascinating and timely documentary exploring why the U.S. government spends more time and money than ever before to keep information away from the American public.
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- Peter Galison, Robb Moss
- Documentaries
- USA
- 2007
- Secret
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Taiwanese pop superstar Jay Chou makes his directorial debut with this engaging romance, in which a pair of young music students (Chou and Kwai Lun-mei) find themselves playing for—and through—time.
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- Jay Chou
- New Directors
- Taiwan
- 2007
- The Secret of the Grain
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Fish couscous has never looked so good, nor the émigré experience so real, as in Tunisian-French director Abdellatif Kechiche’s multi-prize-winning saga of an extended family living in a French seaport.
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- Abdellatif Kechiche
- World Cinema
- France
- 2007
- Shadows in the Palace
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Half lush historical drama, half mind-bending detective story, this graphic, visually stunning and fast-paced murder mystery is set among the court maids who lived and worked in the palace of the emperor during Korea’s Chosun Dynasty.
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- Kim Meejeung
- New Directors
- South Korea
- 2007
- Shampoo
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An astringent dark comedy following the amorous unraveling of a bed-hopping Beverly Hills hairdresser (Warren Beatty) on the eve of Richard Nixon’s 1968 election, with moral morning-after hangovers to come all around.
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- Hal Ashby
- Tributes
- USA
- 1975
- Sleep Dealer
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In this ambitious and topical sci-fi film set in the near future, a youngster from a remote Mexican village relocates to Tijuana where he gets a job working “virtually” by having a set of nodes implanted in his upper body.
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- Alex Rivera
- New Directors
- USA/Mexico
- 2008
- Solitary Fragments
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A single mother moves to Madrid, developing a circle of acquaintances whose intertwined daily lives are minutely observed in this disarmingly naturalistic tapestry, suddenly and shockingly torn apart by a cataclysmic event. Winner of Spain’s best film and director awards.
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- Jaime Rosales
- New Directors
- Spain
- 2007
- Standard Operating Procedure
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The Oscar-winning director of The Fog of War (2003) and The Thin Blue Line (SFIFF 1988) returns with another cogent dissection of war, trials and truth. Interrogating the notorious Abu Ghraib photos, Morris finds the reality “beyond the frame.”
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- Errol Morris
- Tributes
- USA
- 2008
- Stay Tooned, Kids!
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A bridge that falls in love, sheep that paint, even a goat that eats time—come and see the melding of two wondrous worlds as animators from all over the globe speak to their biggest fans—kids.
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- Shorts
- Still Life
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China’s most important contemporary filmmaker captures the lives of people caught between China’s past and its uncertain future, set in a village soon to be destroyed by the immense Three Gorges Dam project.
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- Jia Zhang-ke
- World Cinema
- Hong Kong/China
- 2006
