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10 Gamechanging Directors of the 2000s
5 January 2010 10:08 AM, PST
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While many directors made great films during this decade (Paul Thomas Anderson, Todd Haynes, Michel Gondry, Lynne Ramsay, to name a few), only a handful put out work that was not only consistently interesting but also urged us (sometimes against our will) to think about cinema differently. So, here are ten or so gamechanging directors of the decade.
Honorable Mentions
Chan-wook Park - Oldboy alone puts him on the list. The fact that his other work is equally audacious and vivacious makes him one of the most interesting filmmakers on the planet.
Lars von Trier - just when you thought he'd pushed cinema to its ethical limit with The Idiots, Trier slaps us all in the face with Dancer in the Dark (his sadistic musical) and Dogville (his more-Brechtian-than-Brecht melodrama), only to finish us off with Antichrist, a film that seems to have
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- Mike Miley
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Top 50 Performances of the Decade (Female)
5 January 2010 4:59 AM, PST
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This list has more repeat offenders than the male list yesterday. Please give these 45 talented women one last round of applause before we take a break from the decade stuff to embark on the 2009 awards. As with the male list, I didn't include any 2009 performances (let the year settle first) though there is at least one that would obviously (x 50) be here if I did...
"And it's time my luck changed. And it's time something went right for me!"
-"Julia" makes a plea for a surprise Tilda Swinton nomination this year.
Please Note: This list should not be mistaken for an updated 'Actresses of the Aughts' chart. [editors note: I may attempt to return to that massive project in a definitive way after this year's Oscar race is complete]. How you feel about someone's entire career can be markedly different than how you feel about individual turns and an actress whose skill you may admire might not hit you as hard emotionally as she hits others. Then there are actresses I
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- NATHANIEL R
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