The Best Movies of 2. Carol” This is the first movie that Todd Haynes directed that doesn’t have his name on it as a writer. Working from Phyllis Nagy’s distillation of the Patricia Highsmith novel, he reaffirmed that filmmakers don’t need to generate their own screenplays to be great, a truth many aspiring and established auteurs disregard. Read the review.)Video.

Anatomy of a Scene ‘Carol'Todd Haynes narrates a sequence from his film featuring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. By MEKADO MURPHY on Publish Date November 1. Photo by Wilson Webb/The Weinstein Company. Watch in Times Video »5. In Jackson Heights” The latest from the brilliant Frederick Wiseman has a three- hour- plus running time; maybe this explains why once again the dunderheads at the Academy didn’t put him in contention. Read the review.)6. The Martian” With its red- rock buttes and mesas, Ridley Scott’s deeply satisfying space western both draws from an enduring genre and his own Pantheon legacy.

Read the review.)7. The Kindergarten Teacher” In his tough, weird knockout, the Israeli director Nadav Lapid spins the story of a teacher’s obsession with a child poet to create a savage portrait of fanaticism and its costs.

Read the review.)8. The Diary of a Teenage Girl” In her terrific feature debut, Marielle Heller traces the artistic and sexual awakening of a 1. Bel Powley) whose desires lead to adulthood. Aberration Full Movie Part 1 on this page. Read the review.)9. The Big Short” Adam Mc. Kay plays it for comedy, but as he carpet- bombs the screen with laughs, he makes it clear that his take on the 2. American tragedy.

Sixty Six” Lewis Klahr’s beautiful compilation of digital short works, which refashion pop culture in a heroic key, played for only one night at the Museum of Modern Art. But his work shows up in cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco, too, so if you’re in the neighborhood, look for his next show.

Read the review.)1. Another 2. 6 Favorites — because why not? Many of these could have made my top 1. Amy,” “Anomalisa,” “Blackhat,”“Chi- Raq,”“Ex Machina,”“Experimenter,”“Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem,”“The Good Dinosaur,”“The Great Man,”“Inside Out,” “Joy,” “Lost Landscapes of Los Angeles,” “Magic Mike XXL,” “Office,” “Results,” “The Revenant,” “Seymour: An Introduction,”“Shaun the Sheep Movie,”“Spy,”“Straight Outta Compton,”“Tangerine,” “Timbuktu,”“Trainwreck,” “White God” and “The Wolfpack.”1. Most Hopeful Sign At one point, you could feel the status quo shift as it became O. K. to talk about discrimination in the industry not just openly but also loudly.

Timbuktu was a regional trade centre in medieval times, where caravans met to exchange salt from the Sahara Desert for gold, ivory, and slaves from the Sahel, which. Background and program information, membership form, seating plan, and schedule of events.

Directed by Paul Auster. With Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, Richard Edson, Don Byron. A famous jazz saxophonist whose life is forever changed after he is accidentally. See the list of Foreign Language Film nominees for Oscars 2017. Get the full list of Oscar nominations, view photos and videos for the 89th Academy Awards. Not far from the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu, now ruled by the religious fundamentalists, proud cattle herder Kidane (Ibrahim Ahmed aka Pino) lives peacefully in. Critics Consensus: Spike Island has energy and visual style to spare; unfortunately, they're lost within the movie's clichéd story and choppy direction.

Viola Davis spoke out, as did Jennifer Lawrence, who went public about making less than her male co- stars. I didn’t want to seem ‘difficult’ or ‘spoiled,’” she wrote in the newsletter Lenny, speaking for many, including those with far more modest paychecks. Even Better In October, The Los Angeles Times reported that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was investigating gender discrimination in the industry, just as the American Civil Liberties Union requested state and federal agencies do after it conducted its own inquiry.

How often have we all heard that resigned expression? How often have we said it ourselves? ‘The death of cinema’ is debated in university film studies programs. BBC releases its list of the 100 greatest films of the 21st century, polled from film critics all around the globe. How Jerry O'Connell Knew He Wasn't Going to Get the Job on Live! With Kelly.

· The film critics of The New York Times — Manohla Dargis, A. O. Scott and Stephen Holden — share their picks for the best movies of the year.

On the Other Hand Here is an estimate of the movies directed by women that were released by major studios this year: Warner Bros. Lana Wachowski, Anne Fletcher, Dana Nachman, Nancy Meyers, Patricia Riggen); Universal (three — Sam Taylor Johnson, Elizabeth Banks, Angelina Jolie); Disney (one — Niki Caro); Paramount (0); Fox (0); and Sony (0). I excluded Fox and Sony’s specialty units.)1. An Amazing Coincidence One of the studios with the most on- screen diversity — it released “Trainwreck” and “Straight Outta Compton” (if also “Ted 2”) — and with some of the most female directors is Universal, which, as of early December, had gobbled up almost 2. Most Ignored Truism “There’s a myth in the business that young males drive the box office,” Tom Rothman, the chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s motion picture group, told The Hollywood Reporter in November. In this same interview, Alan F. Horn, the chairman of the Walt Disney Studios, tried to make it simple: “There are variables that do affect what one pays any performer.

Angelina Jolie, for example, got a lot more money for ‘Maleficent’ than Daisy Ridley did for ‘Star Wars,’ but they’re both women.” (Gee, thanks, Alan!)1. Most Complex Hurdle As of Dec. Box Office Mojo. By contrast, five out of 2.

This may look bad, but the numbers appear marginally better than they have in recent years. Most Interesting Apology (tie) On Nov. The Hollywood Reporter disgorged a 1,2. Oscar actress round table. Soon after, the director Alex Proyas and Lionsgate apologized for the lack of diversity in the cast in their new movie “Gods of Egypt.”1.

Going, Going, Almost Gone Quentin Tarantino shot his latest, “The Hateful Eight,” in 7. Whatever you think of Mr. Tarantino, try to catch “The Hateful Eight” on film so you can see for yourself how the industry- enforced switch to digital has radically changed movies. Best Advice for Movie Lovers In August, the scholar Wheeler Winston Dixon sounded an alarm: “If you go on Amazon and you see some great black- and- white film, and it’s going for $3, or any kind of foreign or obscure film, buy it, because it’s going out of print, and they’re not going to put them back into print.” Tens of thousands of films that were on VHS never made the jump to DVD or to Blu- ray, Mr. Dixon warns. And the brave new world of downloads (a.

A. O. Scott. Like a lot of critics, I chafe against the arbitrariness of lists even as I recognize their utility. Since I can never stop at 1. I, when something like 9. North American theaters? I picked 1. 5 to match the year, ranked them and ended up fudging that count.

So maybe technically it’s a top 2. The slots with more than one title aren’t ties, but double features, paired movies that complement, contend with or amplify each other’s best qualities. Photo. Mehdi A. G. Mohamed, left, and Layla Walet Mohamed in “Timbuktu.”Credit.

Arnaud Contreras/Cohen Media Group 1. Timbuktu”(Abderrahmane Sissako)Mr. Sissako is both an indispensable political filmmaker and one of the great poets of contemporary cinema. His portrait of life under jihadi rule in northern Mali is brutal and shocking, but also gentle, generous and surprisingly funny. Mr. Sissako does not humanize violent extremists so much as demonstrate that they already belong to the species and reflect part of our common, tragic nature. But his movie also insists that the only effective and ethically serious way to oppose fanaticism is with humanism.

Which is to say with irony, with decency and, perhaps above all, with art. Read the review.)Photo.

Sadness, left, Fear, in back, Anger, Disgust and Joy in “Inside Out.”Credit. Disney/Pixar 2. Inside Out” (Pete Docter)This journey into the mind and feelings of an 1. Watch Field Of Lost Shoes Mediafire. Pixar’s wildest adventure yet. It’s a very funny workplace sitcom (with exuberant, touching performances from Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Mindy Kaling and others), an ingenious allegory of psychological development, and an almost unbearably moving and honest defense of the role of sadness in our lives.

Read the review.)3. Spotlight” (Tom Mc. Carthy)“The Big Short” (Adam Mc. Kay)Two terrifically entertaining, ensemble- driven, fact- based procedurals about appalling crimes and the institutions — the Roman Catholic Church and Wall Street banks — that allowed corruption to fester. In addition to mustering righteous anger, Mr. Mc. Carthy and Mr.