Film after film: (or, what became of 21st century cinema?)

A post-photographic cinema. The myth of \"the myth of total cinema\" --
The matrix: \"a prison for your mind\" --
The new realness --
Quid est veritas: the reality of unspeakable suffering --
Social network --
Postscript: total cinema redux --
A chronicle of the Bush years. 2001: after September 11 --
2002: the war on terror begins --
2003: invading Iraq --
2004: Bush\'s victory --
2005: looking for the Muslim world --
2006: September 11, the anniversary --
2007: what was Iraq and where? --
2008: the election --
Notes toward a syllabus. In praise of love (Jean-Luc Godard, 2001) --
Avalon (Mamoru Oshii, 2001) --
Avant-garde goes digital: Corpus callosum, Cotton Candy, and Razzle Dazzle --
Russian ark (Alexander Sokurov, 2002) --
Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002) --
Goodbye Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2002) --
Dogville (Lars Von Trier, 2003) --
The world (Jia Zhangke, 2004) --
Battle in heaven (Carlos Reygadas, 2005) --
The death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, 2005) --
Day night day night (Julia Loktev, 2006) --
Southland tales (Richard Kelly, 2006) --
Inland empire (David Lynch, 2006) --
Between darkness and light (after William Blake) (Douglas Gordon, 1997/2006) --
LOL (Joe Swanberg, 2006) --
Flight of the red balloon (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2007) --
Hunger (Steve McQueen, 2008) --
Opening ceremonies, Beijing Olympics (August 8, 2008) --
Carlos (Olivier Assayas, 2010) --
The strange case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira, 2010) --
Once upon a time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011).