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NYT's 25 Best Movies of the 21st Century

Amongst  the New York Times' 25 Best Movies of the 21st Century  are : A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke) Silent Light (Reygadas) Three Times (HHH) Timbuktu (Sissako) Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt) 5 Contemplative films out of 25, that's 20% of the best of the century (so far).  Not bad for a mainstream journal that publishes Dan Kois ( the bored philistine ).

Where is cinema heading to?

Short videos on this question answered by Jia Zhang-ke, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Lisandro Alonso and Albert Serra. Jia Zhang-ke (Chinese + French subs) 58" [ centrepompidou ] Jia Zhang-ke : "I'm very confident in the future of cinema and I'm confident about new media, like internet or cell phones, that allow the audience to watch movies. But I'm also certain that the movie houses will last long. It's extremely important that the audience could gather in a common place to watch a filmic work. The size of the screen begs for respect, both for the work and the audience. This mutual respect will continue. And this is how I envision the future of cinema. Merci" Hou Hsiao-hsien (chinese + French subs) 1'25" [ centrepompidou ] HHH: "Well it's not like writting... where we only need a pen and a paper. To work with cinema it's different. Question is : what is the difference between images and words? It's totally different. How are we going to w...