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Best of the Decade #4: Lost in Translation (2003)
24 December 2009 10:16 AM, PST
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After a promising directorial debut with The Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola proved it was no fluke when her follow-up film, the 2003 masterpiece Lost in Translation became something of a phenomenon. It opened in just 23 theatres, but it ended up grossing almost $120 million worldwide. Coppola had officially stepped out of her father's shadow and found her own voice, but she also established herself as one of the most exciting and prominent female directors working today.
A lot of disparate things came together to make this movie such a huge success, but there's no question that one of the most important decisions Coppola made was casting Bill Murray as washed-up movie star Bob Harris. The story goes that he was a difficult man to track down, despite the fact that his career had been revived (and somewhat transformed) with Wes Anderson's Rushmore, but Sofia Coppola's persistence paid off (both for
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Hollywood sheds its prejudice
22 December 2009 9:40 AM, PST
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As Meryl Streep and Sigourney Weaver win plaudits for their roles as older women in physical relationships with younger men, one of the most enduring barriers in Hollywood's movie-making history is at last being torn down
When a film star seduces someone 20 or 30 years their junior on screen, the audience doesn't bat an eyelid. In fact, it is an established cinema convention. If the older star is a woman, however, public reaction is harder to predict. But now Hollywood, so long accused of sexism because of the way it treats female talent, finally seems prepared to tackle a subject once regarded as beyond the pale: sex and the sixtysomething woman.
Sigourney Weaver, who stars in this month's new sci-fi blockbuster, Avatar, has revealed that in her next film she is to play the lover of an actor little more than half her age. In Cedar Rapids, Weaver, 60, is cast opposite
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'Road, Movie' selected for Berlin International Film Festival
21 December 2009 4:11 AM, PST
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The Indian Film Company (Tifc) has announced Road, Movie, Dev Benegal's endearing tale of a young man who takes a travelling cinema truck on a life-changing journey across the sublime Indian landscape continues its successful festival run with its European premiere at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival in the Generation 14plus programme. Road, Movie's presentation in Berlin demonstrates its audience appeal following its world premiere in Toronto during September and subsequence crowd pleasing receptions in Tokyo and Doha.
Road, Movie was co-produced by Tifc and Susan B. Landau (An Ideal Husband).and Academy Award® nominee Ross Katz (Lost in Translation, In the Bedroom)
Advisory to The Indian Film Company, CEO Sandeep Bhargava said, "We are delighted to bring this crowd pleasing film to Berlin. Road, Movie presents the hopes and desires of the younger generation in India as well as revealing universal truths that we must all accept and embrace.
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Audio/Visual: A Decade of Music in Film
18 December 2009 1:19 AM, PST
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I chose my previous two film scores based on both their distinctiveness in both context and content, but also because they had certain weaknesses that, while important to their character, still kept them from being the kind of landmark works that are universally acknowledged as ground-breaking and important. The three scores I’m highlighting this week were chosen specifically for both their widespread popularity and critical success.
Let’s begin with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. This is a score that many, many people who are even remotely familiar with the film are aware of in terms of importance. Like the other films I’m focusing on here, the music of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon goes hand in hand with the other elements of the movie, but it could be said that, out of the three, this score is the most potent accompaniment. This is mostly because of the movie’s setting; feudal China.
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Review: ‘Up In The Air’
17 December 2009 11:00 AM, PST
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In the utterly enjoyable Up in the Air, George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a corporate down-sizer. Like a gun for hire, Ryan is kept on retainer to deliver pink slips instead of bullets; though some might argue there is little difference. Ryan has no personal relationships, rarely sleeps in the same city two days in a row, can fit everything important to him into a carry-on and he could not be happier.
Midway through the movie, Ryan explains that he is on the road traveling over 322 days of the year. That may sound awful to most of us, but to him “that means 43 miserable days at home.” That statement is perfectly indicative of how Ryan sees the world.
He doesn’t like attachments of any sort, human or material. He has a better relationship with the airline ticket agent than his own sisters, and prefers the tidiness and order he
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Review: Mammoth
16 December 2009 7:58 PM, PST
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Here I am. Where are you? I love you. I miss you.
Lukas Moodysson woefully neglected (at least in North America) new film starring Michelle Williams, Gael Garcia Bernal and Marife Necesito (a wonderful Filipino actress who is the real heart and soul of the film) steps back from flirtations with pornographic explicitness (A Hole in My Heart) or the baffling bauble of Container and takes on the large task of trying to understand family bonds in the 21st century. A film as timely as Up In The Air or the 2006 film it is inevitably compared to: Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel (if only because of the world-hopping story and Gael Garcia Bernal who is, more or less, in the Brad Pitt role), it may be even better than either of those two because of its quiet (distant) empathic confusion. While it eventually comes to a boil, for the most part,
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Heaven's Door review
16 December 2009 4:47 AM, PST
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-Michael Arias is a patient man. He fought a
very long time for a chance to prove his worth as a director, grabbing
it with both hands when it finally came along. And with success, as the
world took notice. And yet, for his second feature film interest seems
rather limited. Completely unjustified in my opinion, as it's easily
one of the best films of 2009 (so far).
With only two feature films to his name, Arias' career is already
worth a bunch of studies and books. He was the first American ever to
direct a film at Studio 4°C and almost beat them at their own game.
Tekon Kinkreet is one of the greatest animes to have come along in the
last couple of years, displaying a sense of style and energy not often
seen beyond the Japanese borders.
Perhaps fans of Tekon are still awaiting Arias' next animation
project,
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Decade: Sofia Coppola on “Lost in Translation”
14 December 2009 11:34 AM, PST
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Editor’S Note: Every day for the next month, indieWIRE will be republishing profiles and interviews from the past ten years (in their original, retro format) with some of the people that have defined independent cinema in the first decade of this century. Today, we’ll step back to 2003 with an interview indieWIRE’s Wendy Mitchell had with Sofia Coppola upon the release of her “Lost in Translation,” which would go on to …
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Decade: Sofia Coppola on “Lost in Translation”
14 December 2009 11:34 AM, PST
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Editor’S Note: Every day for the next month, indieWIRE will be republishing profiles and interviews from the past ten years (in their original, retro format) with some of the people that have defined independent cinema in the first decade of this century. Today, we’ll step back to 2003 with an interview indieWIRE’s Wendy Mitchell had with Sofia Coppola upon the release of her “Lost in Translation,” which would go on to …
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This decade’s film: 2000-2004
14 December 2009 8:08 AM, PST
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Pottermania, Tolkein-mania, Twilight-mania…it’s fair to say that the noughties have been a strong one for different kinds of mania. Moreover, it’s also been the time for some pretty awesome movies.
2000 marked a particularly promising start: American Beauty, the directorial debut from Sam Mendes was a unique critique on the American dream that attracted widespread acclaim, being nominated for 8 Academy Awards and winning 5; including Best Picture. His next project, Road to Perdition proved this success to be no fluke. Apparently this was a good time for new directors, as further evidenced by Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides, and Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich.
Not that the decade was limited to low-budget concept flicks. Box office-smashing comic book adaptations became the name of the game; ranging from the great (Spider-Man, X-Men and Hellboy), to the not so much (Daredevil and Fantastic Four). It became (almost) socially acceptable
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- Uprising
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Kieron’s Top 13 Films of 2009
14 December 2009 6:54 AM, PST
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Looking back over the past twelve months highlights what a strange year this has been in cinema. Transformers 2 swept up at the box office, Terminator 3 nearly killed the franchise. (500) Days Of Summer’s incredible trailer resulted in an incredibly dissapointing film, Where The Wild Things Are dared to be even better than its Arcade Fire powered trailer suggested it would be. So, even though the year hasn’t been the best quality wise, there have been some absolutely terrific films released. In fact for every Blue, Antichrist or Dead Men Running there has been a film of great quality to counter it to the degree I struggled wittling down my list of favourites to the standard ten entries. So I didn’t bother. Each of the films in this list debuted cinematically in the UK in 2009 with the exception of Cyborg, She which was a direct to DVD release.
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- Kieron Casey
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The Best Films of the Decade (aka "The Naughties")
8 December 2009 10:25 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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Jean-Marc Vallee Will Helm Kate Bosworth's 'Lost Girls & Love Hotels'
8 December 2009 12:15 PM, PST
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While The Young Victoria is primed for release next week, Jean-Marc Vallee is moving full steam ahead. The Hollywood Reporter posts that he's going to direct Lost Girls and Love Hotels, which Kate Bosworth will star in and produce with Relativity Media. This is an adaptation of Catherine Hanrahan's novel, penned by Nadia Connors. Bosworth first bought the film back in 2006, and IMDb has her listed as a writer, but it looks like she's sticking to producer and star.
The film will focus on a woman (Bosworth) a 20-something Canadian girl named Margaret who partakes in the ever-popular trend of heading to Tokyo to teach English and forget personal problems -- in her case, a troubled family and schizophrenic brother. She teaches stewardesses "cabin-crew and airline interview English" while spending her nights numbed with alcohol and dangerous sex. But as THR describes it: "She finds herself on the road
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Best Of Decade: Readers' Choice
8 December 2009 11:51 AM, PST
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So what's your favorite film of the decade -- Lost in Translation or There Will Be Blood? Who's your favorite director -- the Coen brothers or Steven Soderbergh? We want to hear what our readers feel was the best in American independent and specialty films in the 2000's. Take our survey and the results will be printed in our upcoming Winter issue.
And by taking the survey you'll receive a discount code to half-off a print subscription.
Update: After you've done your survey, head over to our Forums where we created a Best of 2000's section. Discuss the your favorites (and the ones you didn't like) from the past ten years.
Enjoy!
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- Jason Guerrasio
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Decade in Review: 2003 Top Ten
8 December 2009 6:30 AM, PST
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As you may have noticed, I will not be done with my Decade in Review until sometime into the new year. Hopefully we'll wrap up shortly after the Oscars; You know how distractingly all-consuming the Oscars can be! I hope you'll stay with it even though the rest of the media will move on any second now. They're always in such a rush. No stopping and smelling of the flowers. I've still got to update that "Actors of the Aughts" project for final compilation/statement. For now, let's move on to 2003. What follows is my original top ten list, based on films released in NYC in 2003. If I have anything new to say that'll be in red after the original text.
Special Mentions: The Cremaster Cycle and Angels in America
Most Underappreciated: Hulk (Ang Lee), In the Cut (Jane Campion), Anything Else (Woody Allen), Charlies Angels: Full Throttle (McG) and
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Kate Bosworth Becomes A Lost Girl
7 December 2009 9:08 PM, PST
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Kate Bosworth is off to lose herself in a whirl of sex and drugs in Japan! But, disappointingly for the tabloids, this isn’t her Christmas schedule but rather Lost Girls and Love Hotels, an adaptation of Catherine Hanrahan’s 2006 novel to be helmed by The Young Victoria director Jean-Marc Vallee.Bosworth plays Margaret, a Canadian woman who blots out her troubled past while working at an air stewardess training centre in Tokyo by day and playing fast and loose with sex and drugs by night. She takes interest in a missing Western girl and gradually gets pulled out of herself and into that mystery.The screenplay is written by Nadia Conners, whose only previous project to date is sharing writing/directing duties on Leonardo Di Caprio’s eco pic The 11th Hour.French-Canadian Vallee has form in getting edgy performances out of young leads, as evidenced in his 2005 coming-of-age story C.
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Spike Jonze: Master of the Wild Things
7 December 2009 1:28 AM, PST
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Once the hippest name in music videos, the 40-year-old director will this week terrify children with his adaption of Maurice Sendak's adored tale
A large rubber-band ball sits on the bedside table of the wilful young Max, hero of the new Spike Jonze film, while overhead, on a shelf, sits a bird's nest. Early shots of these odd objects cleverly prelude the virtuoso visual style of this audacious adaptation of a children's classic: the 1963 picture book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.
In the hands of the Oscar-nominated Jonze the island of fearful monsters that Max discovers one night when he has been sent to bed without supper becomes a perilous wasteland dotted with spherical wickerwork huts, nest-like forts and rounded boulders. Although Max, along with his ugly, untamed group of new friends, is clearly recognisable from Sendak's book, any parent who returns to their nursery copy
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- Vanessa Thorpe
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Twice the glitz and glamour?
5 December 2009 4:10 PM, PST
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The Academy has decided to extend the shortlist for next year's best picture Oscar from five to 10 films. Is that a good idea? We can't quite decide…
It has to be a bad idea, doesn't it?
Ten best picture nominations in the Oscars instead of five? It's a cynical move by the Academy to boost viewing figures by opening the field to crowd-pleasers such as The Dark Knight, the exclusion of which last year caused fanboy outrage. The Oscars aren't exactly the gold standard where quality is concerned, but they remain the most important fixture in the movie calendar and the nomination process is not to be treated lightly. Now the list will be swamped with button-pressing blockbusters such as Avatar and Star Trek, which may deserve their box-office receipts but absolutely should not be honoured alongside the all-time greats: All About Eve! Lawrence of Arabia! The Godfather!
True, but
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Boiling Point: Show Me the Money
30 November 2009 12:16 PM, PST
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Recently, I took some time to finally give Guy Ritchie another chance. The man had made two really awesome movies, then mucked about a bit and made some real stinkers. Having heard good things about RocknRolla, I set settled in to give it a watch. Ultimately the movie was okay, maybe I'd call it good. It had some fun bits and some bad bits. Closer to his old work most definitely, but it did have one annoying trait - the painting. The painting that moves gangsters to tears and transfers hands like a hot commodity. Of course, we never get to see it. And that, of course, is bullshit.
I'm most definitely annoyed by things like this. This wasn't the first time and it won't be the last time, but come on. It's not cute or clever or coy. It's annoying. It's lazy. Perhaps the most famous example would be the briefcase in Pulp Fiction. What's
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Could Carla Bruni be the next Mia Farrow?
25 November 2009 4:05 PM, PST
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France's first lady has agreed to be in a Woody Allen film. She's such an obvious choice, we should have predicted it
Why on earth didn't we predict it long ago? France's first lady, Carla Bruni, has revealed that Woody Allen has asked her to be in one of his films, despite her complete lack of acting experience. And she has said yes.
Bruni – of course! She is a quintessential Minor Woody Allen Character: sexy, wealthy, European in that luxury-hotel sense that he adores, liberated in a pre-feminist sort of way, with creative aspirations that are preposterous but which powerful, besotted men might well indulge in the hope of getting inside her exquisitely tailored culottes.
Bruni is the classic unattainable woman from a golden-age Woody Allen picture: the sort who might get a party-scene cameo, towering sexily over him while giving her deadpan opinions on literary or artistic topics – opinions with which he,
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