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Top 100 Tuesday: 100 Best Movies of the Decade
29 December 2009 4:43 AM, PST
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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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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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Review: ‘The Road’ is one of the best adaptations in recent years
15 December 2009 4:34 AM, PST
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Just two years ago The Coen Brothers directed one of the best adaptations of recent years – No Country for Old Men. What made that ten times more difficult was that the novel was by the masterful Cormac McCarthy, easily one of the worldʼs elite writers. Now, adapting a novel as introverted and thoughtful as The Road was an even more ridiculous idea, considering the content of the novel itself. The Road tells the story of a father (Viggo Mortensen) and son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) trekking across a post-apocalyptic United States in order to arrive at the coast for the simple reason of finding others, food and shelter. The world has been decimated by an unknown culprit, which is never explained, but ultimately doesnʼt matter. Civilization has been largely wiped out, but it seems a majority of the remaining survivors have been stripped of their humanity; groups of people have resorted to
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The 100 Best Films of the Decade (part 2)
11 December 2009 5:49 PM, PST
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89- Azumi (2003)
Directed by Ryûhei Kitamura
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Action
Lovers of Asian cinema should love Azumi. A slick, relentless, violent yet beautiful genre piece with breathtaking stunt choreography and impressive wirework by Yuta Morokaji that makes the fight sequence in Kill Bill seem tame.
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88- The Proposition (2005)
Directed by John Hillcoat
Genre: Western
The spirits of Sam Peckinpah [...]
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Pregnant Amy Adams Won’t Enter John Hillcoat’s The Promised Land; Plus Comments on Enchanted Sequel and The Fighter
7 December 2009 10:39 AM, PST
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During our Afm coverage, we premiered the promo poster for The Promised Land (formerly The Wettest Country in the World), the next film from director John Hillcoat and writer Nick Cave (who previously teamed up to make The Proposition) with Shia Labeouf, Ryan Gosling, and Amy Adams set to star. However, in tiny print at the bottom was the note “credits not contractual”. With that in mind, it looks like Amy Adams won’t be heading to The Promised Land now that she is with child.
During the press junket for her upcoming film Leap Year, Adams said that she just finished David O. Russell’s The Fighter and that she’ll be taking a break from filmmaking until next summer. While it sucks that the highly talented Adams won’t be part of Hillcoat’s killer collaboration, hopefully they’ll find a replacement of equal or greater talent. Unfortunately for The Promised Land,
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Movie Review: The Road
3 December 2009 9:03 PM, PST
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Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall, Charlize Theron
Director: John Hillcoat
Release Date: November 25, 2009
Running Time: 112 mins.
MPAA Rating: R - for some violence, disturbing images and language
Distributor: Dimension Films, The Weinstein Company
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No matter if our dreams continuously get shot down, there has to be some form of light that is consistent. Without having a sense of hope, no matter how delusional or faith oriented it may be, we become savages. The Road, based on the 2006 novel by Cormac McCarthy, follows the dreams of two anguished souls, a father and son, as they fight for their survival in a post-apocalyptic America. It is a bleak and systematic tale that produces poignant activity long after the film is over. The picture painted before us by director John Hillcoat, with a script by Joe Penhall, initiates a curious thought amongst us viewers of what has just
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Movie Review: The Road
3 December 2009 9:03 PM, PST
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Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall, Charlize Theron
Director: John Hillcoat
Release Date: November 25, 2009
Running Time: 112 mins.
MPAA Rating: R - for some violence, disturbing images and language
Distributor: Dimension Films, The Weinstein Company
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No matter if our dreams continuously get shot down, there has to be some form of light that is consistent. Without having a sense of hope, no matter how delusional or faith oriented it may be, we become savages. The Road, based on the 2006 novel by Cormac McCarthy, follows the dreams of two anguished souls, a father and son, as they fight for their survival in a post-apocalyptic America. It is a bleak and systematic tale that produces poignant activity long after the film is over. The picture painted before us by director John Hillcoat, with a script by Joe Penhall, initiates a curious thought amongst us viewers of what has just
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Movie Review: The Road
3 December 2009 9:03 PM, PST
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Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall, Charlize Theron
Director: John Hillcoat
Release Date: November 25, 2009
Running Time: 112 mins.
MPAA Rating: R - for some violence, disturbing images and language
Distributor: Dimension Films, The Weinstein Company
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No matter if our dreams continuously get shot down, there has to be some form of light that is consistent. Without having a sense of hope, no matter how delusional or faith oriented it may be, we become savages. The Road, based on the 2006 novel by Cormac McCarthy, follows the dreams of two anguished souls, a father and son, as they fight for their survival in a post-apocalyptic America. It is a bleak and systematic tale that produces poignant activity long after the film is over. The picture painted before us by director John Hillcoat, with a script by Joe Penhall, initiates a curious thought amongst us viewers of what has just
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Movie Review: The Road
3 December 2009 9:03 PM, PST
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Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall, Charlize Theron
Director: John Hillcoat
Release Date: November 25, 2009
Running Time: 112 mins.
MPAA Rating: R - for some violence, disturbing images and language
Distributor: Dimension Films, The Weinstein Company
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No matter if our dreams continuously get shot down, there has to be some form of light that is consistent. Without having a sense of hope, no matter how delusional or faith oriented it may be, we become savages. The Road, based on the 2006 novel by Cormac McCarthy, follows the dreams of two anguished souls, a father and son, as they fight for their survival in a post-apocalyptic America. It is a bleak and systematic tale that produces poignant activity long after the film is over. The picture painted before us by director John Hillcoat, with a script by Joe Penhall, initiates a curious thought amongst us viewers of what has just
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Movie Review: The Road
3 December 2009 9:03 PM, PST
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Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall, Charlize Theron
Director: John Hillcoat
Release Date: November 25, 2009
Running Time: 112 mins.
MPAA Rating: R - for some violence, disturbing images and language
Distributor: Dimension Films, The Weinstein Company
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No matter if our dreams continuously get shot down, there has to be some form of light that is consistent. Without having a sense of hope, no matter how delusional or faith oriented it may be, we become savages. The Road, based on the 2006 novel by Cormac McCarthy, follows the dreams of two anguished souls, a father and son, as they fight for their survival in a post-apocalyptic America. It is a bleak and systematic tale that produces poignant activity long after the film is over. The picture painted before us by director John Hillcoat, with a script by Joe Penhall, initiates a curious thought amongst us viewers of what has just
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Movie Review: The Road
3 December 2009 9:03 PM, PST
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Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall, Charlize Theron
Director: John Hillcoat
Release Date: November 25, 2009
Running Time: 112 mins.
MPAA Rating: R - for some violence, disturbing images and language
Distributor: Dimension Films, The Weinstein Company
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No matter if our dreams continuously get shot down, there has to be some form of light that is consistent. Without having a sense of hope, no matter how delusional or faith oriented it may be, we become savages. The Road, based on the 2006 novel by Cormac McCarthy, follows the dreams of two anguished souls, a father and son, as they fight for their survival in a post-apocalyptic America. It is a bleak and systematic tale that produces poignant activity long after the film is over. The picture painted before us by director John Hillcoat, with a script by Joe Penhall, initiates a curious thought amongst us viewers of what has just
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Guy Pearce Joins Nicolas Cage And January Jones In 'The Hungry Rabbit Jumps'
30 November 2009 1:30 PM, PST
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Shh — be very, very quiet. Guy Pearce is hunting wabbits. Or jumping for them, at least.
Pearce, the actor behind such hits as "The Proposition" — not to be confused with the Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds rom-com "The Proposal" — and "The Time Machine" — which is, sadly, the atrocity you're thinking of — has joined the cast of "The Hungry Rabbit Jumps," the thriller starring Nicolas Cage and January Jones of "Mad Men" fame. Roger Donaldson is the director.
Variety reports on the casting news but neglects to mention the specific role that Pearce has in the film. Given the premise of the movie and Pearce's talents, however, it's likely — not definite, but more than possible — that he'll play one of the movie's multiple antagonists.
In October, MTV News spoke with James D. Stern, one of the film's producers. He described "The Hungry Rabbit Jumps" as a vigilante-centric thriller.
"It's a thriller
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Amy Adams to Star in Next Movie from The Road's John Hillcoat
30 November 2009 6:34 AM, PST
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Earlier today, JoBlo posted some interesting news regarding the next project from Australian director John Hillcoat, who helmed The Road and The Proposition. According to a newly released poster, the title of the project is The Promised Land. Shia Labeouf and Ryan Gosling are confirmed as cast members. However, Scarlett Johansson, who was also expected to star, is missing from the list. In her place is Amy Adams, who was nominated for an Oscar for her work in Doubt and most recently starred in Julie & Julia.
Nick Cave is adapting the screenplay from Matt Bondurant's novel The Wettest County in the World, which tells the story of a family of thieves and smugglers in Virginia during the Great Depression. The novel is based in part on the experiences of Bondurant's family.
While Labeouf and Gosling will likely play brother members of the "Bondurant Boys," it's unclear what Adams's role will be.
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Review: The Road
28 November 2009 2:16 PM, PST
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Underneath the grit, grime, grey skies, and melancholy of The Road, there is a heart to it, an overpowering optimism that stems from the energy a father gives in the love for his son. It is a hard world the father and son in this film live in, and, many times, it seems the end has come. You believe those moments, and it all stems from the power given by the film’s director and the actors involved.
The Road tells an incredible story put to paper by Cormac McCarthy, the author who also gave us No Country For Old Men. The titles and the stories they convey are interchangeable. Every character in The Road is an old man in one form or another. They have each lived a long time in a world that has moved on and, seemingly, forgotten them. McCarthy’s novel, The Road, is a masterpiece,
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'The Road' Explores the Knife-Edge of Human Entropy
28 November 2009 12:00 AM, PST
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The post-apocalyptic drama The Road begins with shots of barking dogs, blooming flowers, and nuzzling horses, but it is soon revealed that these everyday pleasures are fading memories for its protagonists. With a palette of grays and browns, it quickly shifts to the leafless trees and broken ground of a wasteland that has only barely survived an unnamed catastrophe. The world smolders when it doesn't all-out burn, and the vestiges of humanity struggle to survive and retain the things that made them human.
Amid bands of roving cannibals, an unnamed father (Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises) and his son (Kodi Smit-McPhee, Romulus, My Father) have left their home behind and are traveling toward the coast with hopes that the warmer weather and proximity to the ocean will provide a haven. The Man remembers the world before, but The Boy was born to The Man's wife (Charlize Theron, Hancock) after the apocalypse.
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Podcast: John Hillcoat (The Road)
27 November 2009 11:59 PM, PST
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No stranger to mining lyricism from bleak landscapes, The Proposition director John Hillcoat (here working with screenwriter Joe Penhall) has poignantly visualized the burnt-out, grey wasteland of The Road—the 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men:
"John Hillcoat's The Road is an honorable adaptation of a piece of pulp fiction disguised as high art; it has more directness and more integrity than its source material … Viggo Mortensen plays a father—he is referred to only as the Man—wandering a post-apocalyptic world with his son, the Boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee). This is a world in which the unthinkable has happened, although it's never specified exactly what the unthinkable is: All we see are the effects. All animals have apparently died, and plant life is on the way out, too. Cities and towns lay abandoned and crumbled. And the roads, once so carefully
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[Movie Review] The Road
27 November 2009 3:06 AM, PST
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Shelved for over a year by the studio, allegedly biding its time for the right release strategy to snap up an Oscar nod, it's more plausible (and understandable) that they simply had difficulties in selling a no-assurance movie like The Road to a wide audience. That it finally gets a release the day before Thanksgiving is peculiar and somewhat ironic. While it does promote familial bond and being thankful for what you have (because you might lose it), its derelict setting and gloomy atmosphere are surely counter to a festive gathering?
It's relentless almost to a fault. One of the reasons the film is so hard to endure is how subdued it is in utilizing all of a motion picture's faculties. The assured cinematography and vivid art design work together to intentionally create a drab and unbearably dull look—the prominent color of the film being ash. It's also a
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The Road (Film Review)
26 November 2009 10:00 PM, PST
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Note: This review also appears on our Starlog site.
“We are not gonna quit. We are gonna survive this.”
The Road is a bleak, grim, raw movie set in a harsh, oppressive post-apocalyptic world sparsely populated by violent, desperate people. But to say that the film is about Hopelessness would be to entirely miss the point of John Hillcoat’s film and the Cormac McCarthy novel upon which it is based. The Road shows us a cruel, fierce, forbidding world of seemingly inexorable despair, but there is hope in the bleakness. The Road is a dark movie, but not a depressing one. And that difference is why the words “carrying the fire,” both in the movie and the book, have such impact.
The Road is a post-apocalyptic film, but if you’re looking for action sequences and people outrunning fireballs and explosions, you might want to check out 2012 instead. Just
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Interview: Viggo Mortensen
26 November 2009 4:02 PM, PST
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Viggo Mortensen is a study in contradictions: rugged and undeniably virile, and yet thoroughly and irresistibly sensitive; the kind of man movie stars are made from, but seemingly more satisfied in a more subdued role in a smaller film. Appropriately, his latest film is both a post-apocalyptic epic and a profound character study; The Road is an adaptation of the acclaimed Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name, and Viggo plays its main character, a father desperately trying to protect his son from an unhospitable world, both physically and emotionally.
Cinematical recently sat down with Mortensen at the film's press day to discuss his work in the film, which was directed by John Hillcoat (The Proposition). In addition to talking about navigating an unforgiving landscape, he discussed the challenges of balancing fealty to source material and simply making a fulfilling movie, and revealed a few of his own fears and
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John Hillcoat’s Road Trip
26 November 2009 10:53 AM, PST
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When John Hillcoat, director of the postapocalyptic saga The Road, sits down to talk to Fangoria, he has just come from seeing off Cormac McCarthy, author of the source novel, who was in town for the film’s premiere. So it would seem McCarthy is happy with the screen adaptation (Now Playing in theatres from Dimension).
“Oh yeah, he’s very pleased,” Hillcoat says, acknowledging the challenge of translating McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning prose into cinematic terms. “It’s such rich material; it’s very visual and dynamic. You’ll never get the poetry of the language, because it’s a different medium, but the story and the dialogue are brilliant, and the obstacles that the characters are up against is what makes it very special.”
There are plenty of obstacles for the movie’s hero, known only as The Man and played by The Lord Of The Rings’ Viggo Mortensen,
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