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Lisa Schwarzbaum's 10 movie marvels of the decade
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Notice I didn't say best movies -- that territory has been well covered by far more passionate list makers than I am. (By the way, do you agree with me that a devotion to ranking is primarily a male urge? Tell me three good reasons why I'm right or wrong. At any rate, I don't have the gene for it.)
As the first decade of the 21st century comes to a close, though, here's fodder for your New Year's Eve party: A list, in no particular order, of 10 movie developments from the past 10 years that have impressed, depressed, excited, upset,
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- Lisa Schwarzbaum
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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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- rlpolo04@aol.com (David DiMichele)
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Can Dubai become the City of Life of Emirati film?
23 December 2009 2:51 AM, PST
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The economic ructions and unseasonal weather in the emirate did not dampen the mood at the sixth Dubai film festival, but the future for its embryonic movie industry remains to be divined
Dubai in December would probably seem a peculiar place to European eyes under ordinary circumstances, what with the tinsel on the palm trees and the fibreglass snowmen next to the waterslides. This year, of course, circumstances were extraordinary. Days before I headed off to work for the daily newspaper of the Dubai international film festival's sixth edition, which ran from 9-16 December, the emirate's risk of defaulting on its multibillion-dollar loans had exploded across the world's front pages. Would the festival still go ahead, friends wondered, and if so, how would it be affected?
Well, yes, rumours of festival meltdown were greatly exaggerated. It still went ahead, largely unruffled by the macro-level ructions buffeting the economy, and to
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Brittany Murphy obituary
21 December 2009 11:13 AM, PST
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From the age of five she was determined to be a Hollywood star
It has become something of a rite of passage for any young actress fresh on the Hollywood scene to be pencilled in to play Janis Joplin. Brittany Murphy, who has died unexpectedly aged 32, was one of several performers over the years who were attached to one Joplin biopic or another.
In this case, it was Piece of My Heart, for which Murphy auditioned successfully in 1999, but which was never made. It certainly was not much of a stretch to imagine her evoking the gusto and vulnerability required for that part.
Murphy was no run-of-the-mill star. In her first substantial role, as a greenhorn mentored by the coolest girl in school in the 1995 hit Clueless, she proved herself an inventive exponent of comedy. She demonstrated her versatility in dramatically intense films such as Girl, Interrupted and 8 Mile. She
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- Ryan Gilbey
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100 best films of the noughties: Nos 11-90
18 December 2009 2:17 AM, PST
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The Guardian film team's pick of the top 100 movies of the decade. Check back from 21 December as we unveil the top 10 day by day
11-20
11. Waltz With Bashir
12. Dig!
13. The Beat That My Heart Skipped
14. The Consequences of Love
15. No Country for Old Men
16. Silent Light
17. Japon
18. The Sun
19. What Time Is It There?
20. Before Sunset
21-30
21. Unrelated
22. One and a Two
23. Ivansxtc
24. Let the Right One In
25. Of Time and the City
26. When the Levees Broke
27. You Can Count on Me
28. A Serious Man
29. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
30. Control
31-40
31. The Death of Mr Lazarescu
32. Grizzly Man
33. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
34. Être et Avoir
35. Far from Heaven
36. Hidden
37. The Hurt Locker
38. Oldboy
39. The New World
40. The Piano Teacher
41-50
41. Spirited Away
42. Vera Drake
43. American Splendor
44. Capturing the Friedmans
45. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
46. Crimson Gold
47. A History of Violence
48. In the Mood for Love
49. Movern Callar
50. The Night of the Sunflowers
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Culture Warrior: The Culturally Significant Films of the Decade
7 December 2009 5:00 AM, PST
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Throughout this next month you’ll see, all over the Internet, numerous lists of films summing up the decade’s best and worst products of popular culture. But in the interest of this column, I thought it’d be appropriate not to outline the year’s best films, but the ones that are the most culturally significant.
Cultural significance is difficult to define when it comes to films, yet this is something still aspired to by many critics, scholars, and other organizations. The National Film Preservation Board, for instance, decides on 25 films each year to be preserved at the Library of Congress for meeting a level of “cultural, historical, or aesthetic significance,” a criteria which is as specific as it is vague, but one delineating the importance of certain films to the extent that they are mandated to be preserved for infinity.
Cultural significance with regards to a film does not directly coincide with a film’s
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- Landon Palmer
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Film Junk Podcast Episode #246: Steven Seagal: Lawman
7 December 2009 12:50 AM, PST
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0:00 - Intro / In-House Stuff
3:25 - Top 20 Films of the Decade: Spider-Man 2, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Little Children
22:25 - Headlines: Paul Greengrass Drops Bourne 4, Spielberg Drops Harvey Remake, Entourage Movie, The Birds Remake Gets New Director, P.T. Anderson's Next Film, Tim Burton's Frankenweenie Remake, The Black Hole Remake, Universal's Blu-ray DVD Combo Discs
37:00 - Review: Steven Seagal: Lawman
57:10 - Other Stuff We Watched: Amores Perros, George Washington, The Brothers Bloom, The Limits of Control, Dragonheart, Turtles Forever, ** Greg's Story **, Huie’s Sermon, Shadows, Day for Night, Contempt, Rushmore
1:38:55 - Feature: The Films of Wes Anderson
2:10:00 - Junk Mail: Jay Dismisses Fantastic Mr. Fox, Antichrist as Porn, Movies That Tell a Story Without Dialogue, CG vs Practical Effects, Krull Board Game, People Who Give Good Commentaries
2:41:20 - This Week's DVD Releases
2:42:22 - Outro
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Birthday Suits, Well Directed
30 November 2009 6:05 AM, PST
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Lights. Cameras. Birthday Action (for this, the 30th of November). Only one month left to go and it's 2010. How crazy is that?
Ridley, Terrence (in the 70s) and Marc
1835 Mark Twain's books have been adapted into movies ever since the movies began. Most notably The Prince and the Pauper and any tale of Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer
1920 Virginia Mayo 40s and 50s star, frequent Danny Kaye foil
1926 Richard Crenna, character actor
1927 Robert Guillaume, "Benson"
1929 Dick Clark, seemingly immortal creature who may finally be destroyed by the rise of his spiritual offspring Ryan Seacrest. It's all very Cronos vs. Zeus, only without the thunderbolts
1937 Ridley Scott, manly director whose movies are usually way better when they're shot through with a strong female presence. Consider the three classics: Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, Alien. The rest of the filmography surely has its moments but that's the trinity right there.
1943 Terence Malick,
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Birthday Suits, That Girl Those Girls
21 November 2009 7:00 AM, PST
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1694 Voltaire, Enlightment philosopher, writer, progressive. Candide is his work that's most familiar to modern audiences having been filmed, adapted, and put on lists like this one as well as being adapted into a popular and oft-revived comic operetta. Kristin Chenoweth doing "Glitter and Be Gay" is theater heaven.
1912 Eleanor Powell, queen of tap. Broadway Rhythm it's got me Everybody...
1938 Marlo Thomas, That Girl. Yes, that one.
1941 Juliet Mills, Globe nominated film actress (Avanti!) best known for TV roles. She was a cougar before they had a word for it, marrying hunky Maxwell Caulfield when she was 39 and he was 21, before he'd even made Grease 2. They're still married, going on thirty years now. Today's generation might know her best as witchy Tabitha from her long campy run on daytime soap Passions.
1943 Brigitte Broch, favored production designer of both Baz Luhrmann (Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!) and Alejandro González Iñárritu (Powder Keg,
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Is Avatar One of the Top 100 Movies of the Decade?
11 November 2009 6:23 AM, PST
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The end of the decade is almost upon us, which means that over the next month or so you can expect to see all kinds of lists counting down the "Best Of" the previous 10 years in just about everything. One of the first publications out of the gate with their Best Movies of the Decade list is London's Telegraph [1], who count down their top 100 movies from 2000 to 2009. There are some interesting choices and some predictable ones, along with a few movies I've never even heard of.
One thing that has a few people raising an eyebrow, however, is the fact that they've included James Cameron's Avatar on their list, based solely on the 15-minute IMAX preview! Isn't that a little presumptuous? To be fair, they did tack it on at the end of the list at #100, but it still feels like they're going mainly based on hype rather than anything concrete.
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Crashville: The Risky Route To Oscar Glory
6 November 2009 10:00 PM, PST
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In March 2006 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences sprung one of its annual surprises by awarding the best picture Oscar to Crash, rather than Ang Lee’s acclaimed gay cowboy drama, Brokeback Mountain. At the time it looked as though racism and multiple vehicular pile-ups had trumped homosexuality in the battle of the “hot button” issue movies.
But perhaps the Academy was belatedly acknowledging the kind of ambitious, densely plotted, multi-character dramas made famous by the great Robert Altman. From 1975’s Nashville, to Short Cuts, Prêt à Porter and his 2006 swansong A Prairie Home Companion, Altman allowed audiences to immerse themselves in the cinematic equivalent of a book of short stories. Writer Alissa Quart has characterised these films with multiple intersecting plotlines as “hyperlink movies”, in which, “information, character, and action co-exist without hierarchy”.
Now I’m a fan of Altman and I loved Paul Thomas Anderson’s,
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Gael Garcia Bernal and Survival
23 October 2009 10:41 AM, PDT
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In the above photo, Gael Garcia Bernal, the star of Y tu mama tambien and Amores perros, models the new T-shirt designed by John Rocha to mark the 40th anniversary of the human rights organization Survival International.
As per the Survival website, the design was inspired by Rocha’s collection of tribal masks.
On its website, Survival is described as "a human rights organisation that helps tribal peoples defend their lives, protect their lands and determine their own futures. It was founded 40 years ago, following an article by Norman Lewis in the Sunday Times Magazine about the genocide of Brazilian Indians."
The commemorative Survival T-shirt is available exclusively from Survival’s Christmas catalogue.
Photo: Courtesy Survival International
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Cantinflas Film Tops Mexican Movie List
18 October 2009 4:06 PM, PDT
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Juan Bustillo Oro's classic 1940 Cantinflas film Ahi Esta El Detalle has topped a new list of the most important Mexican movies ever made.
The film beat Dona Barbara and Maria Candelaria in a new Latina magazine poll.
Modern classics like last year's Rudo y Cursi, Amores Perros, Like Water For Chocolate and Y Tu Mama Tambien also make the top 25.
The top five Must-See Mexican movies are:
1. Ahi Esta el Detalle
2. Dona Barbara
3. Maria Candelaria
4. Calabacitas Tiernas
5. Los Olvidados.
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Indie Spotlight: New Releases for Sept. 18
18 September 2009 4:15 PM, PDT
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Here's a quick look at what's opening in limited release this weekend. If they're not playing where you live, keep an eye out as they make the rounds. And if all else fails, there's always DVD....
Bright Star(pictured) comes from writer/director Jane Campion, best known for her Oscar-winning screenplay for The Piano. (She got a director nomination for that, too.) Bright Star tells the true story of 19th-century romance between poet John Keats and one Fanny Brawne, played by Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish. It has an 87% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes. It's playing on about 20 screens in New York, L.A., San Francisco, Seattle, Minneapolis, and Dallas.
The Burning Plain is the feature directorial debut by Guillermo Arriaga, who wrote Babel, 21 Grams, and Amores Perros. Once again he favors the fractured timeline and multiple stories; however, this time the result isn't being met with much praise. Only
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Now Playing: Here Come the Children of Toronto
18 September 2009 12:04 PM, PDT
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Robert here with your weekly review of new movies. As Toronto ends, the award season unofficially kicks off. But we still have a few weeks before most heavyweights come our way. Still, this week sees the release of a few movies you've just recently been hearing a lot about, courtesy Tiff.
The Informant - Say what you will about Steven Soderberg (and some do), the man's films are always interesting. What strikes me about The Informant is how Hollywood would have most likely turned the story into another glossy (and by glossy I mean intentionally gritty) corporate thriller. Only Soderberg knows that the corp. thriller genre has finally come to a place where a wink and a nudge are more than welcome. Can Damon's bad hair sporting, paunch packing performance grab him an Oscar Nomination? [rotten tomatoes / metacritic]
Jennifer's Body - There probably won't be many who'll feel much sadness at the critical
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Movie Review: The Burning Plain
18 September 2009 10:52 AM, PDT
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Guillermo Arriaga's The Burning Plain is a dull dirge of a film, a movie that employs the same circling narrative structure that the writer used far-more-effectively in Babel, Amores Perros, and 21 Grams, but ends up feeling like nothing more than a very
well-made soap opera. I honestly believe that if you took apart the
criss-crossing narratives of Arriaga's earlier films and made them run
chronologically there would still be intriguing, interesting stories to
tell. The flashback/flashforward structure of those films actually
added to the storytelling, especially in Babel, where one of the
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