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Top 100 Tuesday: 100 Best Movies of the Decade
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We are leaving Kubrick behind and fast approaching Hyams. If you get that reference, go grab yourself a cookie. It is time for us to reflect back on the decade that was. On January 1st, 2000, Disney released Fantasia 2000. On Wednesday, December 30th, 2009, The White Ribbon is set to bow. Between the release of these two films, thousands of films came and went, and some of them were far more memorable than others. It was a long trek getting this list together, but here are our collective top 100 films of the past decade.
Quick Year-to-Year by the Numbers:
2009 – 11
2008 – 11
2007 – 7
2006 – 14
2005 – 12
2004 – 8
2003 – 7
2002 – 12
2001 – 10
2000 – 8
100. Million Dollar Baby (2004) – Clint Eastwood
99. Juno (2007) – Jason Reitman
98. An Education (2009) – Lone Scherfig
97. Spider-man 2 (2004) – Sam Raimi
96. Munich (2005) – Steven Spielberg
95. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004) – Wes Anderson
94. The King Of Kong (2007) – Seth Gordon
93. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’S Stone (2001) – Chris Columbus
92. Clerks 2 (2006) – Kevin Smith
91. Femme Fatale (2002) – Brian De Palma
90. Tasogare Seibei
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tMF Top 50: Best Movies of the 2000s (50-41)
28 December 2009 9:59 PM, PST
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Editors Note: This week our resident film critic David Dimichele will count down the top 50 best films of the decade. Today we will look at the first ten from the list and unveil a new portion of the list each day until we get to the number one film of this past decade.
The countdown starts after the jump.
50. The Dark Knight (2008)
This nocturnal epic of a nightmare can be a metaphor to what may await America. With President-elect Obama ready to step in and lay a new foundation over a rundown America that is suffering from economic issues, bailout options, unemployment and the always looming threat of a terrorist attack, director Christopher Nolan conceives such unfavorable situations and employs them in a world that usually doesn’t deal with such catastrophes. He dominates the comic book atmosphere of Batman like no one has ever done with jokers, white knights,
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tMF Top 50: Best Movies of the 2000s (50-41)
28 December 2009 9:59 PM, PST
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Editors Note: This week our resident film critic David Dimichele will count down the top 50 best films of the decade. Today we will look at the first ten from the list and unveil a new portion of the list each day until we get to the number one film of this past decade.
The countdown starts after the jump.
50. The Dark Knight (2008)
This nocturnal epic of a nightmare can be a metaphor to what may await America. With President-elect Obama ready to step in and lay a new foundation over a rundown America that is suffering from economic issues, bailout options, unemployment and the always looming threat of a terrorist attack, director Christopher Nolan conceives such unfavorable situations and employs them in a world that usually doesn’t deal with such catastrophes. He dominates the comic book atmosphere of Batman like no one has ever done with jokers, white knights,
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tMF Top 50: Best Movies of the 2000s (50-41)
28 December 2009 9:59 PM, PST
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Editors Note: This week our resident film critic David Dimichele will count down the top 50 best films of the decade. Today we will look at the first ten from the list and unveil a new portion of the list each day until we get to the number one film of this past decade.
The countdown starts after the jump.
50. The Dark Knight (2008)
This nocturnal epic of a nightmare can be a metaphor to what may await America. With President-elect Obama ready to step in and lay a new foundation over a rundown America that is suffering from economic issues, bailout options, unemployment and the always looming threat of a terrorist attack, director Christopher Nolan conceives such unfavorable situations and employs them in a world that usually doesn’t deal with such catastrophes. He dominates the comic book atmosphere of Batman like no one has ever done with jokers, white knights,
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tMF Top 50: Best Movies of the 2000s (50-41)
28 December 2009 9:59 PM, PST
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Editors Note: This week our resident film critic David Dimichele will count down the top 50 best films of the decade. Today we will look at the first ten from the list and unveil a new portion of the list each day until we get to the number one film of this past decade.
The countdown starts after the jump.
50. The Dark Knight (2008)
This nocturnal epic of a nightmare can be a metaphor to what may await America. With President-elect Obama ready to step in and lay a new foundation over a rundown America that is suffering from economic issues, bailout options, unemployment and the always looming threat of a terrorist attack, director Christopher Nolan conceives such unfavorable situations and employs them in a world that usually doesn’t deal with such catastrophes. He dominates the comic book atmosphere of Batman like no one has ever done with jokers, white knights,
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tMF Top 50: Best Movies of the 2000s (50-41)
28 December 2009 9:59 PM, PST
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Editors Note: This week our resident film critic David Dimichele will count down the top 50 best films of the decade. Today we will look at the first ten from the list and unveil a new portion of the list each day until we get to the number one film of this past decade.
The countdown starts after the jump.
50. The Dark Knight (2008)
This nocturnal epic of a nightmare can be a metaphor to what may await America. With President-elect Obama ready to step in and lay a new foundation over a rundown America that is suffering from economic issues, bailout options, unemployment and the always looming threat of a terrorist attack, director Christopher Nolan conceives such unfavorable situations and employs them in a world that usually doesn’t deal with such catastrophes. He dominates the comic book atmosphere of Batman like no one has ever done with jokers, white knights,
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Top of the Crops: Where do Triffids come in the countdown of killer plants?
28 December 2009 6:23 PM, PST
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Tonight sees the new adaptation of John Wyndham's novel The Day Of The Triffids begin on BBC1, with the concluding part tomorrow.
And with not so much as the hint of a tendril in the publicity shots, sci-fi fans have been wondering what the latest incarnation of the fictional flora will look like.
Triffids are probably the most well-known venomous vegetation on the big or small screen but far from the only example. So, with the Triffids about to wield their deadly stingers once again, it's time to take a look at the top horticultural horrors.
Please note that the following list will include fungi which were previously considered to be plants but are now classified in their own kingdom separate from animals, plants and bacteria. In fact, genetic studies have shown fungi to be more closely related to animals than plants. Nevertheless, mushrooms are grown as crops and eaten as vegetables,
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The Best Films of the Decade (aka "The Naughties")
27 December 2009 9:03 PM, PST
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Best Films Of The Decade (aka The Naughties) From Alex & Terry
List # 1
By Alex Simon
When Terry and I initially discussed writing these lists, I had a tough time thinking back on 20 films over the past decade which I was really taken with, thinking that movies have sunk so low over the past ten years, that even choosing a dozen would be a short-order job. Thirty minutes into it, my list had nearly 60 titles! After much cutting, pasting, and re-cutting and pasting, here are my top 20 films (in no particular order) of the first decade of the 21st century, dubbed by many as “the naughties.” --A.S.
1.No Country for Old Men (Coen Brothers, 2007) An elegiac blend of stark beauty and full-throttle despair from two of our finest filmmakers, set in the contemporary American West. Every frame is damn near flawless, and would have been an even more perfect vehicle for the late Sam Peckinpah.
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Where should sci-fi boldly go in 2010?
24 December 2009 3:41 AM, PST
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With the success of Star Trek, Avatar and District 9, It's been a high-profile year for science-fiction, but has the quality matched the publicity? What new paths might the genre explore in the next decade?
Earlier this year, sci-fi actioner Pandorum proved that you can concoct an entertaining - if rather artistically bankrupt - thriller in space by splicing together bits of other popular genre flicks: in this case, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien and Brit horror flick The Descent. Looking forward to next year's crop of sci fi movies, I wonder if Repo Men might follow a similar route.
The film is not, as its name suggests, a sequel to Alex Cox's wry 1984 punk cult classic, but rather an original piece based on the 2009 novel The Repossession Mambo, by Eric Garcia. I say original, for Repo Men seems to have grabbed elements of every sci fi flick from Gattaca to Minority Report,
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Films Of The Decade – Ed’s List
23 December 2009 5:17 PM, PST
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Each decade of celluloid is defined by its psychological preoccupations. Oh yes it is, don’t look at me like that. The 9/11 terror attacks on New York and Washington cast a long shadow over the first decade of the 21st century. The Nineties had been a relatively stable and optimistic era by comparison and was all the more moribund for it. Tom Sizemore’s speech in Katherine Bigelow’s Strange Days (1995) summed up the emerging consensus – “everything’s been done, every kind of music’s been tried, every government’s been tried, every fuckin’ hairstyle. How you gonna make it another thousand years, for Chrissake?”
But it wasn’t quite the end of history after all. After 9/11 the zeitgeist became politically-charged once more as it had been in more polarised times. Entertainment was not immune from this effect, nor could it afford to be. With rare exceptions such as Paul Greengrass
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Red Band Trailer for ‘Repo Men’
23 December 2009 1:42 PM, PST
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Today we have a the red-band band trailer for a sci-fi action-thriller called Repo Men. Before you start freaking out: no, it’s not the sequel to the 80s cult-hit with Emilio Estevez and flying cars.
Repo Men stars Jude Law and Forest Whitaker as two futuristic agents whose job is to repossess the hi-tech organs of recipients who can’t pay their costly bills to a less-than-friendly company called The Union. The movie is based on the novel The Repossession Mambo by Erica Garcia, who also wrote the novel-turned-movie Matchstick Men.
Of course, a film like this needs a twist and in Repo Men that twist comes when Law’s character, Remy, has an accident that forces him to receive one of The Union’s hi-tech hearts. When Remy can’t pay his own bills for the new heart, the company he used to get his hands dirty for
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Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz have all to play for in Knight & Day
23 December 2009 7:44 AM, PST
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The title makes it sound like a bad 1980s BBC sitcom, but the this action comedy blockbuster, due out in summer 2010, is probably Cruise and Diaz's best chance to regain box-office cred
Take a look at any "most anticipated movies of 2010" list online and you'll see a familiar collection of sequels and remakes and adaptations. But there's one big summer movie that the list-makers seem to have ignored so far – the Tom Cruise/Cameron Diaz action comedy Knight & Day.
This wouldn't have happened a few years ago. Earlier in the decade, the hype surrounding a high-kicking blockbuster starring Minority Report's Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz from Charlie's Angels would have been building since the moment it started filming. As it is, the past three days have seen a poster and a teaser trailer launched to almost no fanfare whatsoever.
You don't need to be a genius to see why
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Putting Your Gear to Work
23 December 2009 6:30 AM, PST
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I am not the most tech-minded of people.
I thought Logic 9 was 64-bit until it was pointed out to me on Twitter that it wasn't. I didn't care though. It still runs lovely and fast. And on Snow Leopard too, which is a shock because I thought I was being a little risky upgrading when I did… but so far so good. In fact better than good, to be fair.
Just so long as the equipment serves the higher function to create music as easily, quickly, efficiently and intuitively as possible, then I'm a happy bunny.
Let me explain... right after the jump...
I just wish I had an interface like Tom Cruise had in "Minority Report". Imagine how much fun that would be. And you'd get a workout at the same time, none of this sore-arse-fat-belly-tired-eyes that sitting staring at an itty-bitty monitor does to one who chooses to
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Decade in Review: 2005 Top Ten
19 December 2009 4:00 PM, PST
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2009 is almost over and so many magazines and websites have already offered up their best of the year And decade that I'm afraid y'all will get sick of the retrospectives before The Film Experience has chimed on. Remember: the tortoise wins! 2005's top ten list (in its original form) follows. New comments in red.
Public Favorites (Box Office): Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, War of the Worlds, King Kong, Wedding Crashers, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Batman Begins, Madagascar and Mr & Mrs Smith
Oscar Favorites: Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Crash, Good Night and Good Luck and Munich
My Vote For UnderAppreciated: In Her Shoes, Happy Endings and The White Countess
Top Ten Runners Up (11-15): The Squid and the Whale, Match Point, The New World, Junebug and The Beat That My Heart Skipped.
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Ibm's 5 in 5: Smart Grids, Living Buildings, and Smart Water
17 December 2009 1:34 PM, PST
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Ibm's annual Next 5 in 5, a list of five innovations that will take off in the next five years, is ready. And in our humble opinion, it's probably pretty accurate. The theme this year is "cities," and according to Ibm, our major urban centers are about to become a whole lot smarter.
More specifically, Ibm predicts that cities will have healthier immune systems (read: a "health Internet" that gathers information to prevent the spread of disease), buildings will act like living organisms with help from sensors that monitor things like temperature, occupancy, and light, cars and city buses will go electric thanks to renewable energy-powered smart grids, smart water systems will cut down on water waste and improve purification technology, and cities will use analytics to stop crime before it happens (Minority Report, anyone?).
Many of these predictions are already coming true. Smart meters are being deployed across the country, EVs
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The Notable Films of 2010: Part One
15 December 2009 7:47 AM, PST
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After such success with this last year, today comes the first in a multi-chapter look at the various cinematic releases hitting the U.S. in 2010.
Each 'Volume' contains brief descriptions and editorial opinion/analysis of around 25-30 films, and at present it's looking to run around nine volumes in length.
Expect the remaining ones to go up between now and the first official weekend of releases on January 8th.
13
Opens: 2010
Cast: Jason Statham, Alexander Skarsgard, Mickey Rourke, Ray Winstone, 50 Cent
Director: Géla Babluani
Summary: A remake of 2005 French thriller "13 (Tzameti)". A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
Analysis: Remakes are very common, the same director remaking his own film in English is rarer but still not unheard of ("Funny Games," "Bangkok Dangerous," "The
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The Notable Films of 2010: Part One
15 December 2009 7:47 AM, PST
| Dark Horizons
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After such success with this last year, today comes the first in a multi-chapter look at the various cinematic releases hitting the U.S. in 2010.
Each 'Volume' contains brief descriptions and editorial opinion/analysis of around 25-30 films, and at present it's looking to run around nine volumes in length.
Expect the remaining ones to go up between now and the first official weekend of releases on January 8th.
13
Opens: 2010
Cast: Jason Statham, Alexander Skarsgard, Mickey Rourke, Ray Winstone, 50 Cent
Director: Géla Babluani
Summary: A remake of 2005 French thriller "13 (Tzameti)". A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
Analysis: Remakes are very common, the same director remaking his own film in English is rarer but still not unheard of ("Funny Games," "Bangkok Dangerous," "The
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Today's Vision of Tomorrow: Web 3.0 in 3-D
11 December 2009 12:40 PM, PST
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If Web 1.0 was all about companies selling stuff to you, and Web 2.0 is about information sharing and user-participation, then what's Web 3.0 going to be? It might be a whole new angle on browsing, for one: In three dimensions.
You're probably reading this Web page on a flat screen. The text and graphics of the site are pretty much like a digital magazine with linear flowing text that shapes around embedded photos and flat-rendered imagery distributed around the page. And just about any page you surf off to elsewhere on the Web will have pretty much the same format. Yet when the work day is over and you boot up World of Warcraft (or pretty much any modern game) you immerse yourself in a rich graphical environment that is more visual than text-based, and has representative 3-D image rendering. Why isn't the Web experience a bit more like this? Well, it might be one day soon.
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Billboards Now Interactive, Will Get to 'Minority Report' Levels of Cleverness
9 December 2009 12:00 PM, PST
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Billboards seem so last-century don't they, with their huge paper posters and badly-glued peeling corners? You've obviously not been keeping up with the times then: Digital interactivity is the new trend, and it's just the beginning.
We've talked a bit about this before (remember the Japanese billboard that watches you watching it?) but a round-up post by Craig Kanarick over at his blog Exp does a fabulous job of pointing out just how clever advertisers and bill-board makers are getting these days. Aided by cheap, clever and miniaturized technology, billboards are swiftly moving beyond the centuries-old paper sheet and glue system into full digital, animated interactivity.
The round-up starts in 2003 with Coca-cola's 99-foot interactive digital sign on London's famous Piccadilly Circus that responded to weather and people waving at it below (shown at the top of this post).
But the biggest slew of examples is from 2009, showing how amazingly swiftly the technology is growing.
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Google Unveils Real Time Search, Translation, Image Searching, Goggles...Awkwardly
7 December 2009 11:55 AM, PST
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Google called a high-profile press conference today, and used it to unveil not one big feature, but a number of current and future tweaks to its service. The list was impressive, so we've rounded up some of the cleverest tech for you. But man, Google needs to hone its presentation style.
Real Time Search
This was the big take-away from the presentation: Google finally officially admitted its long-suspected desperation to get hold of real time Web-search data. And it did more than that too--it unveiled it as a live, in-service product on both cell phones and desktop browsers.
The system is a progression of the tech that's driven Google's search engine for years. The company started with monthly Web trawls to sample for search query-matching data, progressing quickly as the Net exploded to weekly, daily then hourly crawls over the billions of Web pages on the Net. Until today, the
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