Film Archive: A

Douglas Aarniokoski

• Highlander: Endgame

Paul Abascal

• Paparazzi
• Paparazzi
• Paparazzi

Abdul Malik Abbott

• State Property

Masashi Abe

• Tokko, Vol. 1
• Tokko, Vol. 2
• Tokko, Vol. 3

Dominique Abel

• L'Iceberg

Jenny Abel, Jeff Hockett

• Abel Raises Cain

J.J. Abrams

• Mission Impossible III

Aluisio Abranches

• The 3 Marias

Hany Abu-Assad

• Paradise Now
• Paradise Now
• Rana's Wedding

Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar

• The Corporation
• The Corporation

Andrew Adamson

• The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
• Feature: The Return of the Popcorn Circus: May 2008

Ben Addelman, Samir Mallal

• Bombay Calling

Lisa Ades and Lesli Klainberg

• Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema

Robert Adetuyi

• Turn It Up

Ben Affleck

• Gone Baby Gone
• News: Ben Affleck directs new movie rather than stars in it
• News: The up-and-coming Affleck: younger brother Casey, in 2 new films
• Feature: Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male
• Feature: Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Female

Shohreh Aghdashloo [The Nativity Story]

• News: 'Nativity Story' inspired Iranian actress

Marilyn Agrelo

• Mad Hot Ballroom
• Mad Hot Ballroom

Alejandro Agresti

• The Lake House
• ValentÍn
• ValentÍn

Alexandre Aja

• The Hills Have Eyes
• The Hills Have Eyes
• High Tension (haute Tension)
• Feature: The Return of the Popcorn Circus: August 2008

Kazuki Akane

• Noein: To Your Other Self, Vol. 1
• Noein: To Your Other Self, Vol. 4

Mike Akel

• Chalk

Sinan Akus / Anno Saul

• Kebab Connection

Jessica Alba

• News: Jessica Alba tries comedy in 'Good Luck Chuck'

Alan Alda [Resurrecting the Champ]

• News: Alan Alda feels free to pierce his good-guy image

Robert Aldrich

• The Grissom Gang

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

• The Last Supper

Ra'anan Alexandrowicz

• James' Journey to Jerusalem (massa'ot James Be'eretz Hakodesh)

Daniel Algrant

• Naked in New York
• People I Know

Elizabeth Allen

• Aquamarine

Kevin Allen

• The Big Tease

Woody Allen

• Match Point
• Scoop
• Scoop
• Anything Else
• The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
• Hollywood Ending
• Melinda and Melinda
• Melinda and Melinda
• Small Time Crooks
• Sweet and Lowdown
• Cassandra's Dream
• News: Colin Farrell plays against type in new Woody Allen movie
• News: Scottish actor Ewan McGregor is in big demand

Marc Dindal, Mark Dindal and Roger Allers

• The Emperor's New Groove

Leane Allison, Diana Wilson

• Being Caribou

Michael Almereyda

• Hamlet
• Hamlet
• This So-called Disaster
• This So-called Disaster

Pedro Almodóvar

• Volver

  PopMatters Pick

  

  The women repeatedly confront and contemplate death, gathering in rituals of grief and affirmation.

   
• Volver
• Bad Education (la Mala Educación)
• Bad Education (la Mala Educación)
• Talk to Her

Pedro Almodovar

• All About My Mother
• All About My Mother
• News: Almodovar: The master storyteller returns to theaters with the tragic, comic 'Volver'

Loretta Alper

• War Made Easy

Usama Alshaibi

• Nice Bombs

  PopMatters Pick

  

  Though it seems casual, even random, Nice Bombs manages a consistently acute observation of tensions between troops and citizens, expectations and realities.

   

Kent Alterman

• Semi-Pro

Robert Altman

• A Prairie Home Companion
• A Prairie Home Companion
• A Prairie Home Companion
• The Company
• Dr. T & the Women
• Gosford Park
• Gosford Park
• The Long Goodbye
• Robert Altman Collection
• Short Cuts
• Feature: Part 3: The Stellar '70s
• Feature: Gone and Not Forgotten: The PopMatters DVD Wish List

Alejandro Amenabar

• The Others

Jon Amiel

• The Core
• The Core

Brad Anderson

• Happy Accidents
• The Machinist
• The Machinist

Jane Anderson

• The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

Lindsay Anderson

• If . . .
• This Sporting Life: Criterion Collection

  Featured Article

  

  Reminiscent of Scorsese’s Raging Bull in its dissection of the primal need of man to hit and be hit, and its brutish character's struggle with misogyny.

   

Michael Anderson

• Orca

Paul Thomas Anderson

• Magnolia
• Magnolia
• Punch-Drunk Love
• Punch-Drunk Love
• Feature: Part 5: The Return of the Auteur
• News: To his latest director, Daniel Day-Lewis is 'the man'
• Feature: Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male
• There Will Be Blood

  PopMatters Pick

  

  Land, oil, blood. There will be lots of all in Paul Thomas Anderson's stunning new movie.

   
• News: There will be confusion: Deliberately vague films leave critic cold
• There Will Be Blood

  Featured Article

  

  However fictional, Daniel Plainview is like history come to life -- more Frankenstein's monster than wax doll.

   

Paul W.S. Anderson

• Alien Vs. Predator
• Alien Vs. Predator
• Resident Evil
• Resident Evil
• Resident Evil: Deluxe Edition

Stephen J. Anderson

• Feature: The PopMatters 'Short Ends & Leader' Spring Film Preview
• Meet the Robinsons
• News: Angela Bassett makes a leap with 'Meet the Robinsons'

Wes Anderson

• The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
• The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou: Criterion Collection
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• News: Owen Wilson: Where does he go from here?
• The Darjeeling Limited
• The Darjeeling Limited

Roy Andersson

• Songs from the Second Floor (Sånger från andra våningen)

Julie Andrews

• News: Acting legend Julie Andrews returns in Shrek the Third

Theodoros Angelopoulos

• The Weeping Meadow

Kenneth Anger

• The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. 1

  Featured Article

  

  Anger can be seen not only as the godfather of queer cinema, but also of indie cinema: his budgets were virtually non-existent, and the production values might have been low; but the finished products were always regarded as works of art.

   
• The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. 2

Jean-Jacques Annaud

• Black and White in Color (noirs Et Blancs En Couleur)
• Enemy At the Gates

Reverge Anselmo

• Stateside

David Anspaugh

• Rudy (deluxe Edition)

Nimród Antal

• Vacancy
• Vacancy

Michelangelo Antonioni

• The Mystery of Oberwald
• The Passenger

Shinji Aoyama

• Eureka

Judd Apatow

• News: TV geek Seth Rogen becomes a movie star
• News: With Judd Apatow's films and TV shows, familiarity breeds hilarity
• Feature: Monkey Business (Part 2: June)
• Knocked Up
• Knocked Up
• News: Oh, baby! 2007 gave birth to a brood of pregnancy comedies
• The 40-year-old Virgin
• News: Judd Apatow's aptitude is for funny and familiar
• News: When it comes to movie laughs, 'Drillbit' producer Judd Apatow is the man

Michael Apted

• Amazing Grace
• 49 Up
• Enough
• Enough
• Enough
• Enigma
• Enigma
• The World Is Not Enough

Gregg Araki

• Mysterious Skin

Fernando León de Aranda

• Mondays in the Sun (los Lunes Al Sol)

Semyon Aranovich

• Feature: The Cult of Personality

Cam Archer

• Wild Tigers I Have Known

Asia Argento

• The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things

Dario Argento

• Feature: Part 3: The Stellar '70s
• Feature: Gone and Not Forgotten: The PopMatters DVD Wish List
• Feature: The Return of the Popcorn Circus: June 2008

George A. Romero and Dario Argento

• Two Evil Eyes (due Occhi Diabolici)

Don Argott

• Rock School
• Rock School

Allan Arkush

• Rock 'n' Roll High School

Neil Armfield

• Candy

George Armitage

• The Big Bounce

Armstrong, Doug

• The Donovan Concert: Live in Los Angeles

Gillian Armstrong

• Charlotte Gray
• Charlotte Gray

Andrea Arnold

• Feature: All Around the World: The Best International/Indie Films of 2007
• Red Road

  PopMatters Pick

  

  In Red Road, Jackie's story extends beyond her control, no matter what she sees, thinks she sees, or tries to see.

   

Jack Arnold

• Hello Down There
• The Mouse That Roared

Darren Aronofsky

• The Fountain
• Feature: Aronofsky: A Shockingly Talented and Aggressive Filmmaker
• Requiem for a Dream
• News: Aronofsky doesn't mind if audiences find 'The Fountain' divisive

Jerry Aronson

• Feature: Allen Ginsberg: The Politics of Ecstasy

Yilmaz Arslan

• Fratricide

Miguel Arteta

• Chuck & Buck
• Chuck & Buck
• The Good Girl

John Asher

• Diamonds

Toyoo Ashida

• Fist of the North Star, Volume 5

Douglas McGrath and Peter Askin

• Company Man

Anthony Asquith

• A Cottage on Dartmoor

Olivier Assayas

• Clean
• Les Destinées

Doug Atchison

• Akeelah and the Bee

David Atkins

• Novocaine

Rowan Atkinson

• News: 'Mr. Bean' speaks! (About his new movie)

Charles Atlas

• The Legend of Leigh Bowery

Richard Attenborough

• Gandhi (25th Anniversary Edition)

Jacques Audiard

• The Beat That My Heart Skipped (de Battre Mon Coeur S'est Arrêté)
• Read My Lips (sur Mes LÈvres)

Shona Auerbach

• Dear Frankie

John August

• The Nines

Paul Auster

• The Inner Life of Martin Frost

  Featured Article

  

  A dark, slippery love story, a meditation on the risks of embracing one’s muse, a study of the author and his/her “creation”, a quiet reflection on the nature of “human understanding”, this film is many things at once.

   

Roger Avary

• The Rules of Attraction

Carlos Avila

• Price of Glory

John G. Avildsen

• Save the Tiger

Meiert Avis

• Undiscovered

Jon Avnet

• 88 Minutes

George Axelrod

• Lord Love a Duck

David Ayer

• Harsh Times
• Harsh Times
• Street Kings
• News: 'Harsh Times' director knows all about harsh times