To the ones The Manipulator listed I'll add Alexander Sokurov, Eugène Green, Paul Vecchiali who is enjoying a late career resurgence, Pedro Costa (though I can't remember if I read something about Horse Money being his last, Miguel Gomes is getting there, he's rather accessible but Guy Maddin, Hong Sang-Soo, FF…

Also in competition was Mattieu Kassovitz's follow-up to La Haine, Assassin(s), while I haven't seen it, I distinctly remember the reaction to it. It was judged unpleasantly dark and violent, and had the bad luck of having similar points to the Haneke. It then flopped on release and his career never recovered, with…

I still object to the use of past tense about the tight grip, that the rules have changed (and are indeed looser from an unspecified past which might be the cultural revolution to take when things were at the most extreme) doesn't mean that the Party doesn't keep as close an oversight anymore on the media.
Especially…

"At least, its official censorship guidelines prohibit the showing of films that “promote cults or superstition,” a holdover from the days when the Communist Party and its strictly secular ideology kept a tight hold on Chinese media. Things are looser now"
So the CCP no longer censors and has a tight grip on all media?

You Don't Mess With The Zohan manages to walk the line between hilariously absurd and mining jokes from its setting, does it extremely well too.

Victory, after some polite pleading with A.A. Dowd, it has been corrected. Sadly it turned out he's not a fan of the film, but I'm happy with an acknowledgment it doesn't deserve to be lumped in with those things.

It's all well and good for you to take pot shots at Seltzer and Friedberg movies in your intro, but if you're not going to name them, you should at least get the shorthand right. Not only Not Another Teen Movie has nothing to with them, but it actually belongs on that list way more than at least half your picks.
And…

Palme Thursday should be safe (I hope), as far as I can tell they're culling the freelancers. And the schedule for it is already erratic enough that it's probably something Dowd liked likes doing but needs to find the time for.

What's on my phone only (and having trouble thinking of anyone else anyway):
Dark Dark Dark
Deer Tick
Deerhoof
Department Of Eagles
Depeche Mode
Dirty Projectors
Dum Dum Girls

I'm not sure how a film with 37m budget grossing 70m domestic and 113m global can be considered a flop.

A friend who works at a bank tells me they were already moving some operations in Portugal, it should now only pick up the pace.

A lot already have their offices in Ireland, English speaking country with a 12.5% corporate tax rate only.
Luxembourg is also a possible choice.

A lot of British citizens in the EU are pensioners who are now likely to lose any agreement that allowed to enjoy healthcare in their host country.
Getting them back in exchange of kicking out a working age immigrant workforce probably won't help the already overstretched NHS.

And they've now also admitted immigration wouldn't fall down.

They're two I haven't seen (though I recently bought a DVD set of his first three), but I can only concur with Mike that it is one of his best (I'm not sure about the best though). I had already also thought his previous one, Hill Of Freedom was one of the better ones.
But then as you say they're all pretty similar, I…

I have nothing to add or comment, it really is as good as Mike says, and I hope as many as possible go see it.

That first is the one I listen to the least by far. My favourite likely being Sisterworld, but I wouldn't say there's a huge gap between it and the others.
I quite like the direction they've taken lately, especially live, even if it unfortunately means anything before WIXIW is pretty much ignored now.
Though for all I…

Ronan was/is her brother, well half-brother, that doesn't mean Soon-Yi was in any way his daughter.
That doesn't make what happened anywhere near okay either, but that's still no reason to misrepresent it. Think about it as extending the same courtesy Mia Farrow did toward Roman Polanski when she testified in his…

Her name was Prévin, as in she's the (adopted) daughter of André Prévin, Farrow's previous husband.
Maybe he did molest Dylan, maybe he didn't. But grossly mischaracterising other parts of his life to make them look worse than they are only ends up muddying up the truth further when it comes to what he might have done.

Dance To The Underground was sort of big at the time (though obviously not as big as the ones in the article except for The Faint maybe).