Woody Allen's Greatest Underrated Movies

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The universe is expanding. Relationships are like sharks. New York City really is a knock out. Ingmar Bergman is the greatest director there ever was. OK, in the universe of Woody Allen, we all know how groundbreaking and timeless Annie Hall (1977) and Manhattan (1979) are, don’t we, so there’s not really much point in arguing about their permanent place in a Top 5 Best Woody Allen Movies list. What's more important right now, we think, is arguing about the unsung greats. So ahead of the release of Woody's Blue Jasmine (out in Canada this week), we've put together a list of the director's five most underrated films. Care to disagree with our picks? Let it all out in the comments below.

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Who do you think of when you think of the greatest photographers of all time? Henri Cartier-Bresson? Diane Arbus? Don McCullin? Robert Frank? Well, it just so happens that many of the greatest photographers – all with varying styles and approaches to the medium – have had documentaries made about them, and, what's more, these films are available to watch online FOR FREE.  So, like a photographer hovering his/her finger over the shutter release to capture that one-off moment, all you have to do below is click "play"…

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Out of all the Top 10 lists by filmmakers this is the one we've been most eager to lay our eyes on. Yes, it's from Stanley Kubrick, who apparently only ever made this one list – although he has previously mentioned his love of White Men Can't Jump (1992) and how he loathed The Wizard of Oz (1939).

Submitted to Cinema magazine in 1963 (how the hell has this not surfaced before?), Sight & Sound journalist Nick Wrigleyand and Jan Harlan (Kubrick's producer and brother-in-law) recently uncovered the director's top 10 list, in the BFI's Sight & Sound magazine, and well, it's just as interesting as we expected it to be. There's only one film on the list we haven't seen (which is now obviously a must-see). But how about you? Which ones have you seen? And what do you think of Kubrick's taste in general?

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From his debut feature Dread (2009) to his follow-up Cassadaga (2011) and now Missionary (2013), Anthony DiBlasi has fast established himself as an intelligent, uncompromising genre filmmaker never afraid to ask uneasy questions about the darker sides of humanity. Having just screened Missionary at Canada's Fantasia Film Festival, and with the film's European première taking place at Film4 FrightFest this August, we caught up with the director and sometime writer to see what makes his horror tick.

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