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In our annual poll, we pair our favorite new films of 2011 with older films seen in the same year to create fantastic double features.

Fresh lists from Boston to Sydney and beyond.

According to the Passiondex™, the real winner this year was made 20 years ago.

Also: A fresh round of essays at one of my own favorite sites of the year, The Chiseler.

Best Picture, Director and Cinematography. Nice showing, too, for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

"The most famous line in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is 'Reader, I married him,'" Jessica Winter reminds us in Slate, where Dana Stevens

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made. —Jean Giraudoux 1. It is profoundly difficult to articulate

Abbas Kiarostami’s masterful Certified Copy is based on a series of fluid formal shifts to match its conceit of two people playing at a fictional

"An astonishingly multilayered portrait of a romantic relationship that doubles as a commentary on the value of reproductions — and, thus

Put on your best costume jewelry: this evening, as every New York cinephile knows, the 48th New York Film Festival kicks off at Lincoln Center

"'I don't want actors, I want people,' director Miguel Gomes tells an impatient producer in an early scene from his masterpiece Our Beloved

Fantastic. "Surreal," says Apichatpong Weerasethakul. He's just won the Palme d'Or for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. Grand

Three beautiful things in Abbas Kiarostami’s film, Certified Copy: (1) The performance of Juliette Binoche, who is uninterested in the film’s

Above: Frammartino's Le quattro volte. Le quattro volte (Michelangelo Frammartino, Italy) There are too many great moments to mention in

"The best film so far in this year's Cannes competition, Abbas Kiarostami's first feature made outside Iran is in many ways a departure

Stormy weather and volcanic ash notwithstanding, the Cannes Film Festival will open on Wednesday and run through May 23. The entries on

The lineup for the 63rd Cannes Film Festival is evidently still a work-in-progress, with an additional three or four titles to be added