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Syndromes of a new century

How have the first ten years of the 21st century changed cinema? From Argentina to Romania, from Almodóvar to Weerasethakul, Nick James introduces Sight & Sound’s selection of the 30 key films of the past decade

PLUS (in the magazine) Shane Danielsen on the hot national cinemas of the past ten years

PLUS (in the magazine) Mark Cousins on the new culture of instant availability

PLUS (in the magazine) Michael Atkinson on reports of the death of American cinema

PLUS (in the magazine) Hannah McGill on the decline and fall of star power

PLUS (in the magazine) Jonathan Romney on the subtle spread of ‘Slow Cinema’

PLUS (in the magazine) Nick Roddick on how digital technology has transformed film

PLUS (in the magazine) six of the decade’s directing talents – Pedro Costa, the Dardennes, Claire Denis, Michael Haneke, Jia Zhang-ke and Apichatpong Weerasethakul – describe their own distinctive approaches to film-making

Sight & Sound’s films of the decade

Not a ‘top 30’, but the films that in our opinion best represent the decade’s most distinctive oeuvres and movements – with annotations from the Sight & Sound archives

Ozu Yasujiro, tofu maker

Ozu is often perceived to be a uniquely Japanese director with a fascination for the domestic, but in fact he was a wide-ranging movie fan who started out aping US films and rarely had real experiences to parallel the lives of his protagonists. By Tony Rayns

Film of the Month: Still Walking

Trevor Johnston is wowed by a supremely subtle portrayal of the tensions within a Japanese family that puts director Kore-eda Hirokazu in the same league as his country’s masters of domestic drama, Ozu and Naruse

DVD review: Tarzan after Johnny Weissmuller

Two actors ruled the jungle after Johnny Weissmuller handed in his loincloth. Tim Lucas on the ape men