Stuart Klawans | The Nation

A massacre in Aurora and the cinema of social hallucination.

Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, Kirby Dick’s The Invisible War, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus

Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator; Emad Brunat and Guy Davidi’s 5 Broken Cameras

Hirikazu Kore-eda’s I Wish, Nanni Moretti’s We Have a Pope, Shirley Clarke’s The Connection, Mia Hansen Love’s Goodbye First Love, Jennifer Baichwal’s Payback

Gary Ross's The Hunger Games, Terence Davies's The Deep Blue Sea.

Jafar Panahi’s This Is Not a Film; Kimi Takesue’s Where Are You Taking Me?; Manfred Kirchheimer’s Art Is…The Permanent Revolution

Stephen Daldry’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Wim Wenders’s Pina.

Martin Scorsese’s Hugo.

Jem Cohen’s Newsreel No. 1, Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre, Andrew Niccol’s In Time

The forty-ninth edition of the New York Film Festival.