The Movie Book

319 The nation watches enthralled as Jamal (Dev Patel) progresses through the rounds with correct answers, heading for the 20 mi ...

320 THIS BOX IS FULL OF STUFF THAT ALMOST KILLED ME THE HURT LOCKER / 2008 S cripted by reporter Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow’s Th ...

SMALL WORLD 321 What else to watch: Platoon (1986) ■ The Battle of Algiers (1966, pp.182–87) ■ Black Hawk Down (2001) ■ Green Zo ...

322 IF I DIE WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DEATH! MAN ON WIRE / 2008 S creen portraits of one person, whether drama or documentary, are usual ...

SMALL WORLD 323 I’D LIKE TO ASK YOU SOMETHING FATHER THE WHITE RIBBON / 2009 H aving spent most of his working life in TV, Micha ...

324 EVERYONE PAYS FOR THE THINGS THEY DO ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA / 2011 P olice work and all that comes with upholding the ...

SMALL WORLD 325 Nuri Bilge Ceylan Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan was born in 1959 in Istanbul, Turkey, and studied electrical engine ...

326 SO WHAT DO YOU LIKE ABOUT BEING UP HERE? GRAVITY / 2013 O n one level, Gravity is a simple affair—the tale of astronaut Dr. ...

SMALL WORLD 327 WE’RE ALL JUST WINGING IT BOYHOOD / 2014 I n his own low-key, low-budget way, Richard Linklater has always been ...

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330 THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY Edwin S. Porter, 1903 This 12-minute short was possibly the first Western, with cowboys, six-shooter ...

DIRECTORY 331 is most famous for a heart-stopping moment in which a girl appears to have her eyeball sliced open. The movie is a ...

332 BRIEF ENCOUNTER David Lean, 1945 British director David Lean’s early masterpiece is a simple story, based on a Noel Coward p ...

DIRECTORY 333 visual style and fast-paced editing, plus his ability to give scenes a huge emotional kick, turn it into an epic o ...

334 PEEPING TOM Michael Powell, 1960 Peeping Tom received a negative response on its release, but it is now considered a masterp ...

DIRECTORY 335 I AM CUBA Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964 Hidden away in Soviet archives for three decades, Kalatozov’s I Am Cuba was rest ...

336 BELLE DE JOUR Luis Buñuel, 1967 Spanish director Luis Buñuel’s French movie Belle de Jour appears on the surface to be a con ...

DIRECTORY 337 LAND OF SILENCE AND DARKNESS Werner Herzog, 1971 Werner Herzog’s documentary follows a deaf-blind German woman who ...

338 SHOLAY Ramesh Sippy, 1975 Often credited to director Ramesh Sippy’s producer father G. P. Sippy, Sholay is a Hindi action-ad ...