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SOMEWHERE | Dir. Sofia Coppola | 2010 | USA | Drama | 97 mins | NC16

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SABOTEUR (Alfred Hitchcock, 1942)
SACRIFICE, THE (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986) ^
SACRO GRA (Gianfranco Rosi, 2013) - Italian FF '14
SAFARI (Ulrich Seidl, 2016) - Anticipate Pictures
SAFE HAVEN (Lasse Hallstrom, 2013) - Guest Review by Joyce Tan
SALAAM BOMBAY! (Mira Nair, 1988) ^ - Perspectives FF '14
SALESMAN, THE (Asghar Farhadi, 2016)
SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN (Lasse Hallstrom, 2012)
SALO, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975) - Criterion Collection
SALT (Philip Noyce, 2010)
SAMURAI ASSASSIN (Kihachi Okamoto, 1965) - Japanese FF '15
SANDCASTLE (Boo Junfeng, 2010)
SANJURO (Akira Kurosawa, 1962) - Criterion Collection
SANSHO THE BAILIFF (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954) ^^ - Criterion Collection
SATAN'S BREW (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1976) 
- World Cinema Series '13
SAUSAGE PARTY (Greg Tiernan & Conrad Vernon, 2016)
SAVAGES (Oliver Stone, 2012)
SAVAGES, THE (Tamara Jenkins, 2007)
SAVING MR. BANKS (John Lee Hancock, 2013)
SCARFACE (Brian De Palma, 1983)
SEARCHERS, THE (John Ford, 1956) ^
SEARCHING (John Cho, 2018) ^
SECRET, THE (Ann Hui, 1979) ^ - Singapore Chinese FF '17
SECRET IN THEIR EYES, THE (Juan José Campanella, 2009) ^ - Argentine FF '18

SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY, THE (Ben Stiller, 2013)
SECRET OF KELLS, THE (Tomm Moore & Nora Twomey, 2009) - European Union FF '10
SECRET SUNSHINE (Lee Chang-dong, 2007) - Criterion Collection
SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD (Lorene Scafaria, 2012) ^
SENNA (Asif Kapadia, 2010)
SENSO (Luchino Visconti, 1954) ^ - Criterion Collection
SEPARATION, A (Asghar Farhadi, 2011) ^
SERBIS (Brillante Mendoza, 2009)
SERIOUS MAN, A (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2009) ^ 
SESSIONS, THE (Ben Lewin, 2012)
SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (Martin McDonagh, 2012)
SEVEN SAMURAI (Akira Kurosawa, 1954) ^^ - Criterion Collection
SEVENTH CONTINENT, THE (Michael Haneke, 1989) ^ - Retrospective '18

SEVENTH SEAL, THE (Ingmar Bergman, 1957) ^ - Criterion Collection
SHADOW (Zhang Yimou, 2018) 
SHADOWS (John Cassavetes, 1959) - Criterion Collection
SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS (Sergei Parajanov, 1965) ^ - Perspectives FF '17
SHALLOW GRAVE (Danny Boyle, 1994) ^ - Perspectives FF '13 / Criterion Collection
SHAME (Steve McQueen, 2011) ^ - Singapore Film Society '13
SHAPE OF WATER, THE (Guillermo del Toro, 2017)
SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE (Mark Burton & Richard Starzak, 2015) ^
SHINE A LIGHT (Martin Scorsese, 2008) ^
SHINING, THE (Stanley Kubrick, 1980) ^
SHIRKERS (Sandi Tan, 2018) ^ - Netflix

SHOAH (Claude Lanzmann, 1985) ^^ - World Cinema Series '10 / Criterion Collection
SHOOT 'EM UP (Michael Davis, 2007)
SHOPLIFTERS (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2018) 

SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING, A (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1988) ^
SHUTTER ISLAND (Martin Scorsese, 2010) ^
SICARIO (Denis Villeneuve, 2015)
SICKO (Michael Moore, 2007) ^
SIDE EFFECTS (Steven Soderbergh, 2013) 
SIERANEVADA (Cristi Puiu, 2016) ^ - SIFA O.P.E.N. '17
SIGNS (M. Night Shyamalan, 2002)
SILENCE (Martin Scorsese, 2016) ^
SILENT WAR, THE (Alex Mak & Felix Chong, 2012)
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (David O. Russell, 2012) ^
SIMPLE LIFE, A (Ann Hui, 2011) ^
SIMPSONS MOVIE, THE (David Silverman, 2007)
SIN CITY (Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller, 2005) ^
SINGLE MAN, A (Tom Ford, 2009)
SIN NOMBRE (Cary Fukunaga, 2009) ^ 
- Perspectives FF '14
SKYFALL (Sam Mendes, 2012) ^
SLEEPER (Woody Allen, 1973)
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (Danny Boyle, 2008) ^
SMALL TALK (Huang Hui-Chen, 2016) - Singapore Chinese FF '17
SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT (Ingmar Bergman, 1955) ^ - Criterion Collection

SNITCH (Ric Roman Waugh, 2013) - Guest Review by Jason Lin
SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN (Rupert Sanders, 2012)
SOCIAL NETWORK, THE (David Fincher, 2010) ^
SOFT SKIN, THE (Francois Truffaut, 1964) ^ - Criterion Collection
SOLARIS (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972) ^ 
- Criterion Collection
SOMETHING IN THE AIR (Olivier Assayas, 2012) 
- European Union FF '13
SOMETHING WILD (Jonathan Demme, 1986) ^ - Criterion Collection
SOMEWHERE (Sofia Coppola, 2010) 
SONG OF SPARROWS, THE (Majid Majidi, 2009)
SONG OF THE PHOENIX (Wu Tianming, 2013) 
- Singapore Chinese FF '14
SONG OF THE SEA (Tomm Moore, 2014) ^ - European Union FF '16
SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR (Roy Andersson, 2000) ^ - Swedish FF '17
SONGS WE SANG, THE (Eva Tang, 2015)
SON OF BABYLON (Mohamed Al Daradji, 2010)
SON OF SAUL (Laszlo Nemes, 2015) ^^ - The Projector '16
SORCERER (William Friedkin, 1977)
SORRY ANGEL (Christophe Honore, 2018) ^ - Love & Pride FF '18
SOUND OF MUSIC, THE (Robert Wise, 1965) ^^
SOURCE CODE (Duncan Jones, 2011) ^
SPECIAL DAY, A (Ettore Scola, 1977) - Italian FF '15 / Criterion Collection
SPECTRE (Sam Mendes, 2015) 
SPEED (Jan De Bont, 1994) ^
SPEED RACER (Andy & Lana Wachowski, 2008)
SPELLBOUND (Alfred Hitchcock, 1945) ^ 
- Criterion Collection
SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING (Jon Watts, 2017)
SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES, THE (Mark Waters, 2008)
SPIRIT, THE (Frank Miller, 2008) 
SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE, THE (Victor Erice, 1973) ^ - Criterion Collection
SPIRITED AWAY (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001) ^^
SPLIT (M. Night Shyamalan, 2016)
SPOTLIGHT (Tom McCarthy, 2015) ^
SPRING BREAKERS (Harmony Korine, 2013)
SPRING FEVER (Lou Ye, 2009)
SPY (Paul Feig, 2015)

SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, THE (Martin Ritt, 1965) ^ - Criterion Collection
SQUARE, THE (Ruben Ostlund, 2017) - Singapore International FF '17 / Anticipate Pictures
STAGECOACH (John Ford, 1939) ^ - Criterion Collection
STAGE FRIGHT (Alfred Hitchcock, 1950) ^

STALKER (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979) ^ - Criterion Collection
STARDUST (Matthew Vaughn, 2007) ^
STAR IS BORN, A (Bradley Cooper, 2018) 

STAR TREK (J.J. Abrams, 2009) ^
STAR TREK BEYOND (Justin Lin, 2016)
STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (J.J. Abrams, 2013) ^
STAR WARS: EPISODE VII - THE FORCE AWAKENS (J.J. Abrams, 2015) ^
STAR WARS: EPISODE VIII - THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson, 2017)
STATE OF PLAY (Kevin Macdonald, 2009) ^
STILL ALICE (Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland, 2014)
STILL WALKING (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2008) ^ - Criterion Collection
STOKER (Park Chan-wook, 2013)
STORY OF QIU JU, THE (Zhang Yimou, 1992)
STRANGER BY THE LAKE (Alain Guiraudie, 2013)
STRANGERS, THE (Bryan Bertino, 2008)
STRAY DOG (Akira Kurosawa, 1949) ^ 
- Criterion Collection
STRAY DOGS (Tsai Ming-liang, 2013) 
- Singapore International FF '14
STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, A (Elia Kazan, 1951) ^
STRIKE (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) ^^
SUCKER PUNCH (Zack Snyder, 2011)
SUICIDE ROOM (Jan Komasa, 2011) - European Union FF '13
SUICIDE SQUAD (David Ayer, 2016)
SULLY (Clint Eastwood, 2016)
SUMMER AT GRANDPA'S, A (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1984) ^ - Retrospective '16
SUMMER IS GONE, THE (Zhang Dalei, 2016) - Singapore Chinese FF '17
SUMMER'S TALE, A (Eric Rohmer, 1996) ^ - Women in Film '16
SUNSET BOULEVARD (Billy Wilder, 1950) ^^
SUNSHINE (Danny Boyle, 2007)
SUPER 8 (J.J. Abrams, 2011)
SUPERBAD (Greg Mottola, 2007)
SUPERMAN (Richard Donner, 1978)
SURF'S UP (Ash Brannon & Chris Buck, 2007)
SUZHOU RIVER (Lou Ye, 2000) 
- Perspectives FF '14
SWEDISH LOVE STORY, A (Roy Andersson, 1970) - Swedish FF '17
SWEET COUNTRY (Warwick Thornton, 2017) ^ - Singapore International FF '17
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957) ^ - Criterion Collection
SWORD OF DOOM, THE (Kihachi Okamoto, 1966) - Criterion Collection

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