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Any list of the greatest foreign directors currently working today has to include Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The directors first rose to prominence in the mid 1990s with efforts like “The Promise” and “Rosetta,” and they’ve continued to excel in the 21st century with titles such as “The Kid With A Bike” and “Two Days One Night,” which earned Marion Cotillard a Best Actress Oscar nomination.

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The directors will be back in U.S. theaters with the release of “The Unknown Girl” on September 8, which is a long time coming considering the film first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. While you continue to wait for their new movie, the brothers have provided their definitive list of 79 movies from the 20th century that you must see. La Cinetek published the list in full and is hosting many...

Elia Kazan is one of my top five favourite American filmmakers of all time, and so I decided to ask our staff to rank his films. If you are not yet familiar with the filmmakers work, now would be a good time to start. Kazan was one of the most honoured and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history and introduced a new generation of unknown young actors to the world, including Marlon Brando, James Dean, Warren Beatty, Carroll Baker, Julie Harris, Andy Griffith, Lee Remick, Rip Torn, Eli Wallach, Eva Marie Saint, Martin Balsam, Fred Gwynne, and Pat Hingle. Noted for drawing out the best dramatic performances from his cast, he directed 21 actors to Oscar nominations, resulting in nine wins. The source for his inspired directing was the revolutionary acting technique known as the Method, and Kazan quickly rose to prominence as the preeminent proponent of the technique. During his career,...

The Deer Hunter premiered in 1978 three years after the Vietnam War. Apocalypse Now followed in 1979. Platoon was released seven years later. Full Metal Jacket appeared after another year. Before cinema can powerfully comment on a key historical moment, a breathing period is necessary, to establish the event’s context, as a link between past patterns and future fluctuations. Who remembers Elia Kazan’s The Visitors (1972)? How about To the Shores of Hell (1966)? People have heard of John Wayne and Ray Kellogg’s The Green Berets (1968), but who likes it?

Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty follows the search for and killing of Usama bin Laden, which closed less than two years ago. Unfortunately, more time for historical perspective would have benefited the picture.

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