Happy New Year everyone.
If you’re at a party this evening, I hope it goes more smoothly for you than it did for Peter Sellers as Hrundi V. Bakshi in Blake Edwards’ The Party.
Be safe. Be happy. I wish you a new year that is even better than the last, personally, professionally and cinematically.
Cheers.
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Village of the Damned
There are a whopping two new releases this weekend and they’re both limited and they both opened yesterday.
The White Ribbon. This might be Michael Haneke’s most accessible and “likable” film, but I can’t help feeling he’s still making the audience the victim of his misanthropic scolds even as the film’s surprisingly warm [...]
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Filmmaker Magazine tallies up the best American independent films of the decade and they join Film Comment and indieWIRE in celebrating David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr.
I could watch the top three over and over and over.
Mulholland Dr. – David Lynch (2001)
There Will be Blood – Paul Thomas Anderson (2008)
No Country for Old Men – Joel and [...]
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Film Comment asked assorted “critics, programmers, academics, filmmakers” and other movie nerds to vote for the best films of the 2000s and David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. came out on top. At least 7 of the top 20 have a real shot at my own list (if I decide to make one).
Here’s the Top 20. For [...]
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This is not my Top 10 of 2009 or my Top 10 of the decade. I’m not ready to do them yet. I know all the cool kids have done them, but screw ‘em. I’ll roll mine out after the new year when people return from mental and physical holiday.
Instead (and before we look ahead [...]
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Highlights include Dog Day Afternoon, Jezebel, The Muppet Movie, Once Upon a Time in the West and Pillow Talk.
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Action on the movie front is reduced to a crawl between Christmas and New Year’s Eve and it leaves my brain open to having songs like the above stuck in it. I don’t want to go quietly insane by myself, so I’m sharing it with you. Enjoy!
Elsewhere, things are so slow that folks are posting [...]
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If you’re already on board Inception, I’d recommend skipping the trailer, but if you’re curious check it out at Apple or stream it after the jump.
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Say what you want about Avatar. It’s making a crapload of money. Sure, you could argue it has an advantage with the inflated 3-D ticket price, but in its second weekend it dropped a minuscule 2% from its opening weekend easily topping newcomers Sherlock Holmes, the Alvin and the Chipmunks sequel and Meryl Streep’s It’s [...]
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The trailer for Chinese historical epic THE WARLORDS starring Jet Li, Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro
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