Flicks w/ The Film Snob

Erich von Stroheim's 1924 classic is one of the most important works in film history, and the story of its production is a big part of its legend

The Dardenne brothers have polished their art to the hardness of a diamond, and this film about losing and finding oneself is another small treasure

The first film by Tunisian filmmaker Moufida Tlatli - one of the few women directors in the Muslim world

A documentary that envelops its subject with an intimate sense of contact, connection and understanding

This film by Hank Rogerson, documents a program at the Luther Luckett Correctional Complex in Kentucky, in which inmates put on a different Shakespeare play each year

After seeing Au hasard Balthazar, the sounds and images may come back to haunt you, like dreams

A documentary about the exciting Russian ballet companies that dominated the form in Europe and America during the first part of the 20th century

An intelligent, low-key drama about loneliness and friendship on the Mexican-American border, and its gritty style reveals some unexpected depths

Mizoguchi became a master of the moving camera and the long take, which he used instead of cutting in order to emphasize the eternal drama within the human soul

Fight Club, with a fiendishly clever script by Jim Uhls, and based on a Chuck Palahniuk novel, has more verbal intricacy and wit than ten ordinary movies

The Yes Men are out to prove the heartlessness of the global corporate empire, and the utter banality of evil, and they succeed beyond one's wildest imaginings

The latest film from legendary director Terrence Malick

Shadows is widely considered the founding film of the American independent movement

Caché is a tremendously powerful, haunting and troubling work of art

A Film Snob's Favorites of '05