January 2011
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another couple for the ol' 2011 radar: 'like...
drake doremus’ border-drama romance like crazy won the grand jury prize today at the 2011 sundance wrap, coming only a couple days after last year’s sundance winner winter’s bone landed itself a handful of oscar nods – including best picture, actress (jennifer lawrence) and supporting actor (john hawkes).
norwegian directress anne sewitsky’s happy, happy (skyt lykkelig)...
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how many times can one possibly be snuck up on and... →
peter travers, folks …illustrious film critic for rolling stone magazine:
“it sneaks up and floors you.” –the fighter “this spellbinder will sneak up and floor you. it’s that good. a supremely intelligent and deeply touching thriller. thunderously exciting!” –the secret in their eyes “it’s a spellbinder. prepare to be wowed.” –let me in...
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ten seems like an awful lot. we don't want to take... →
–joel & ethan coen, typically tongue-in-cheek, on sharing christopher nolan’s seat at the kodak their second-in-field 10 nominations for true grit, including best director.
[oscar nominee reactions via the associated press.]
we won our 150th follower today. thanks to all you... →
wait— 1. that’s not even remotely funny. 2. what #1’s of which decade?
we mean these (and this and this that went with them).
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“what can i do next to blow people’s minds?”
park chan-wook - director of the excellent lady vengeance and one of my personal favorite films ever; oldboy - has just completed a 30-min short film named paranmanjang; a horror story of a man transcending his current and former lives. the quirk? the whole thing was shot on iphones.
coming soon; an existential sci-fi epic filmed...
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'get ready to give me more of that bite.'
if the social network was a writer’s movie – and despite fincher’s faultless work, even he’d agree it remained a product of sorkin’s script – then black swan, the film we grappled with pipping it for as 2010’s best, is most definitely a director’s movie. with the story’s premise and conclusion laid bare in the opening ten minutes (in both a dream sequence and a monologue – the latter the...
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what i imagine the room would feel like if you...
the fighter heralds one of the year’s most befitting titles; simply and neatly summing up its protagonists essence, a caption not simply limited to his profession. yes, micky is a boxer and gets the shit knocked out of him in the ring, but the actual boxing scenes provide only a small percentage of the conflict he embraces. in the film’s first scene, micky’s half brother dicky...
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now’s not the time for long, rambling speeches.... →
–excerpted from banksy’s acceptance speech for exit through the gift shop, which took the top prize at the cinema eye documentary honors.
in a you’ve gotta be joshin’ me move, banksy’s speech was prepared earlier and delivered on his behalf at the ceremony. a transcript of the whole speech can be read via ifc.
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SPOILER ALERT: he makes a speech at the end, and...
here i am, tasked with offering a take on the king’s speech, one of 2010’s most acclaimed films, and perhaps the only one realistically standing inbetween the social network and its best picture oscar. should i be a little more worried that i’ll do it justice? well, typically yes, but i was disappointed (relieved?) to find that it was just okay.
that’s not to say it’s not an...
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je t'aime... moi non plus.
from his youthful days in nazi-occupied france to an alcoholic, tormented twilight; french music icon serge gainsbourg has led a life rife with fascinating, film-worthy arcs. between the artistic innovation, diversity and controversy of his music (the reggaefied french national anthem, case and point), and the drugs, booze and women (pretty damn hot ones too: jane birkin and brigitte bardot are...
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one of my proudest moments of 2010 was when some... →
–sam adams, of the philadelphia city paper, one of a slew of critics vulture rounded up to poll the worst films of the year. check it out with grain of salt firmly in tow and have a laugh – i found it amusing, despite the surprisingly frequent mentions of our #3 BEST film.
“how do you know? you just do.”
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it was like no set i've ever worked on ...... →
–emmanuel lubezki, on the experimental cinematography of terrence malick’s forthcoming the tree of life. from a brief but interesting interview with the l.a. times’ film blog 24 frames.
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well – if nothing else, at least your november...
per MGM:
LOS ANGELES, CA (JANUARY 11, 2011) – Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli of EON Productions, together with Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum, Co-Chairmen and Chief Executive Officers of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., today announced that the 23rd James Bond film will commence production in late 2011 for a worldwide release on November 9, 2012.
Daniel Craig will be returning as the...
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Anonymous asked: I loved your top 100 lists but noticed that neither included District 9!
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the year that was (5/5): top 10 films of 2010.
[…no, we didn’t see it. probably.]
#10. the american [dir. anton corbijn]
never quite the name-taking actioner that a rifle-toting cloons might lead one to expect, anton corbijn’s hitman thriller-cum-european art film was decidedly less concerned with exhilaration than it was with meditation, with the majority of our protagonist’s redemption arc buried in reels of visual allegory....
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the year that was (4/5): top 10 performances of...
our entirely subjective, unordered (yeah), category-less (yep), gender-less (i know) and pretense-free (hmm….) list of the best performances of the year, arranged by ABC.
eric elmosnino, gainsbourg (vie héroïque).
as titular french musician/provocateur serge gainsbourg, elmosnino gave an uncannily on-point, multi-faceted turn to capture his subject’s suave charm and internal torment,...
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