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Antichrist: Review
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Director: Lars von Trier Review: Tim Irwin. You’ve probably heard a lot about the controversy surrounding "Antichrist," about its graphic content and obscene images. It certainly is provocative in its imagery and does not shy away from graphically displaying certain acts, but unlike a generic exploitation film it offers much more. In addition to being artistically presented it is also one of the most terrifying movies I’ve seen in years. There are only two speaking roles in the entire film. They are credited as He (Willem Dafoe) and She (Charlotte Gainsbourg). In the epilogue (named and titled, like all of the chapters in the film) they are busy fulfilling their marital duties. Unfortunately, they are too caught up in each other to notice their son as he steps out of the window and crashes to the ground. The entire scene is shot like an art film, entirely in slow motion black and white,
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Film 2009: The year in lists
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Seven ridiculous film plots, five unlikely weapons and the five scariest children in film
Seven Ridiculous Film Plots
1 Star Trek
Physicists could have a quantum field day with the rebooted space opera's loose interpretations of black holes, supernovas, "red matter", etc – but relax, it's only sci-fi! Harder to swallow was the bit when Kirk was exiled to a barren, snowy planet, but luckily landed right outside the cave of Leonard Nimoy. Or the fact that Kirk and Spock could two-handedly overpower a 24th-century Romulan spaceship like it was a 60s Bond movie. Didn't those guys invent security cameras yet?
2 The Invention Of Lying
Ricky Gervais told us this was set in a world where nobody knew how to lie. He lied. In a lie-free world, there'd be no corrupt cops like Ed Norton's. There'd be no corruption. Or secrecy, bribery, exaggeration, artifice, or, in fact, crime. There'd be no cops at all,
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- Charlie Brooker, Pete Cashmore, Will Dean, Grace Dent, Priya Elan, Malik Meer, Steve Rose, Richard Vine
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John Waters Lists His Top 10 Films of 2009
15 December 2009 9:30 AM, PST
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Yesterday, we brought you Quentin Tarantino’s Top 8 Films of 2009 and today we have John Waters, another film buff/director, listing his best of the year. I always find anything that Waters writes or says to be entertaining and his thoughts on these ten films are no different. Here’s what he thought were the Top 10 Films of 2009:
1. Import Export (Ulrich Seidl)
2. Antichrist (Lars von Trier)
3. In the Loop (Armando Iannucci)
4. World’s Greatest Dad (Bobcat Goldthwait)
5. Brüno (Larry Charles)
6. Lorna’s Silence (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
7. Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodóvar)
8. The Baader Meinhof Complex (Uli Edel)
9. Whatever Works (Woody Allen)
10. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
To read Waters’ thoughts on each film, head over to ArtForum.
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Decade in Review: 2004 Top Ten
14 December 2009 6:56 PM, PST
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Moving on to 2004. What follows is my original top ten list, based on films released in NYC in 2004. If I have anything new to say that'll be in red after the original text.
Top Ten Runners Up (in descending order): Aviator, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Mean Girls, Maria Full of Grace, The Five Obstructions, Collateral, Goodbye Lenin!, Birth and Closer Yes, I'm absolutely horrified by the rankings now. Nothing about that ranking feels right now. I am most ashamed that Birth was only at number [cough] 19 in its year. In my self-flattering memory I "almost" put it in the top ten despite the then brutal reviews. I was ahead of my time! Oh well... at least I did actually name it the #1 most underappreciated film of the year. At the time I said...
Jonathan Glazer made a significant splash four years ago when his brilliantly acted heist film Sexy Beast
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Haneke's 'White Ribbon' Wins European Film Awards
13 December 2009 3:47 PM, PST
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Michael Haneke picked up his second Best Film honor in five years at the European Film Awards, with his White Ribbon winning in three major categories to perhaps emerge as the international film to beat during the rest of awards season.
Having already takend the Palme D'Or at Cannes, Haneke won Best Director and Best Screenwriter, leaving another front-runner, France's A Prophet, a chance only to win Best Actor for Tahar Rahim and a technical award. Because of the release schedule of films on the continent, Kate Winslet was eligible for Best Actress for The Reader, so there's another major award for her. Slumdog Millionaire was also still eligible, helping Anthony Dod Mantle pick up the award for Best Cinematographer (also winning for Lars von Trier's Antichrist).
Thanks to Awards Daily for the list of winners, and here they are:
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Ken Loach wins lifetime achievement honour at European film awards
13 December 2009 3:13 PM, PST
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Leading light of social-realist British cinema receives accolade from Eric Cantona who hails 'genius' director
Grit, not glamour, proved the order of the day at the 22nd annual European film awards, which took place inside a former power station in Germany's industrial heartland, and handed a lifetime achievement award to the director Ken Loach.
The leading light of social-realist British cinema seemed to relish his trip to the Ruhr region, a landscape dominated by smokestacks and coal-mines. "It reminds me that we used to have an industrial heartland in my country too," he enthused. "Until Margaret Thatcher stuck a dagger through it."
Loach, 73, was honoured for a body of work that includes Kes, Riff-Raff, Land and Freedom and The Wind That Shakes the Barley. He received the award from Eric Cantona, the star of his latest film, Looking For Eric. The former footballer hailed Loach as "a genius" and added:
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- Xan Brooks
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2009 Efa Noms: This Year's Favorite (A Prophet) vs. Last Year's Fave (Slumdog)
12 December 2009 6:25 PM, PST
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With the film eligibility dates covering portions of two years, the 2009 European Film Awards finds itself in an awkward mode of having a clear favorites from circa 2008 (Slumdog Millionaire, Let the Right One In) go up against cream of the crop from Cannes 2009 (A Prophet, The White Ribbon and Fish Tank). - With the film eligibility dates covering portions of two years, the 2009 European Film Awards finds itself in an awkward mode of having a clear favorites from circa 2008 (Slumdog Millionaire, Let the Right One In) go up against cream of the crop from Cannes 2009 (A Prophet, The White Ribbon and Fish Tank). Jacques Audiard's A Prophet leads all nominations with a total of six with Best European Film, Director, Screenwriter, Actor (Tahar Rahim), Cinematography and Sound Design. Slumdog comes in 2nd place with five nominations while the Palme d'or winning The White Ribbon and Broken Embraces are tied with 4 each.
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Dystopian Outlook Continues...with Lars von Trier's 'Planet Melancholia'
12 December 2009 6:25 PM, PST
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Lars von Trier is taking on the disaster film genre on a micro-budgeted English-language project which will include a (no surprises here) a pessimistic ending. Planet Melancholia is due to shoot in Germany and Sweden next summer. - Unless he has a mental breakdown, in 2011 (more precisely, Cannes) we should be receiving the art-house answer to Matt Reeves' Cloverfield. Lars von Trier is taking on the disaster film genre on a micro-budgeted English-language project which will include (no surprises here) a pessimistic ending. Planet Melancholia is due to shoot in Germany and Sweden next summer.
TrustNordisk will begin pre-sales at the Berlin Festival in February - this will easily be a sought after title especially after the overall impact that Antichrist will have had. Zentropa's Peter Aalbæk Jensen mentioned to the press that we should expect a handheld aesthetic and some elements of romance.
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Dogtooth, Still Walking and Yu Irie's 8000 Miles among Fnc's 38th Edition
12 December 2009 6:25 PM, PST
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Canada's most avant-garde film festival have released their entire slate for their 38th edition. Apart from Lee Daniel's pegged for Oscar - Precious, Lone Scherfig's An Education, Lars von Trier's Antichrist and Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces (Los abrasos rotos), this year's edition is filled to the gills with obscure titles and names that even a hardcore connoisseur of world cinema such as myself is unfamiliar with. - I've just completed an exhaustive 35 film slate at Tiff and I've got very little time to recharge the batteries for The Festival du nouveau cinéma. Canada's most avant-garde film festival have released their entire slate for their 38th edition. Apart from Lee Daniel's pegged for Oscar - Precious, Lone Scherfig's An Education, Lars von Trier's Antichrist and Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces (Los abrasos rotos), this year's edition is filled to the
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2009 in review: Film
12 December 2009 4:06 PM, PST
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Vampires were everywhere, Hollywood failed to excite, and British cinema ploughed a familiar furrow
The year began with the usual flurry of serious major movies given late December screenings in Los Angeles to qualify for the Oscars. They're now forgotten or vaguely regarded as semi-classics: The Reader, Che, Slumdog Millionaire, Frost/Nixon, Revolutionary Road, The Wrestler, Gran Torino, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
It soon became apparent that horror movies would be the dominant genre once again, with vampires the pre-eminent sub-species, the most profitable inevitably being New Moon, the latest in Stephenie Meyers's Twilight saga, the best the subtle Swedish Let the Right One In and the worst the British horror spoof Lesbian Vampire Killers.
Documentaries continued to flourish, introducing us to fascinating new worlds: Afghan TV talent shows (Afghan Star), Australian exploitation cinema (Not Quite Hollywood), haute couture (The September Issue). Animation thrived, the 3-D comeback threatened
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European Film Awards 2009 Predictions: Best Actress, Actor
12 December 2009 2:33 AM, PST
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Penélope Cruz has already won a best actress European Film Award (for Volver in 2006) and since her role in Broken Embraces is borderline supporting, my guess is that Cannes winner Charlotte Gainsbourg (above, with Willem Dafoe) will be the one taking home the prize for her bereaved sexed-out mother in Lars von Trier’s Antichrist. But who knows? Oscar winner Kate Winslet (for The Reader) could be the dark horse who splits the vote with the brown one (Katie Jarvis for Fish Tank) so the rainbow-colored equine (French Academy’s Cesar winner Yolande Moreau in Séraphine) can win.
For the best actor award, I’d say the race is between two Cannes favorites: Tahar Rahim (above) for his [...]
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Come Back to Me...Or Not.
11 December 2009 4:12 AM, PST
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Jose here with a look at one of the most misunderstood performances of the decade.
Nicole Kidman is arguably the actress of the decade. The woman did everything in the past ten years: thrillers, Ingmar Bergman redux, classy biopics, astonishing musicals, big special effects epics and even Lars von Trier. The last few years however have been full of incomprehensible Kidman hate (if this were the 1930's she'd be deemed box office poison and sent to oblivion).
The backlash began with the release of Cold Mountain Anthony Minghella's Civil War epic which some had decided would be the new Gone With the Wind the minute it started shooting. When it was released and Nicole's Ada Monroe just wasn't Scarlett O'Hara, it was as if people decided Nicole had cheated them from what they all thought would be a third consecutive Best Actress Oscar nomination (it says a lot that
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Avatar: review of reviews of James Cameron's 3D space opera
11 December 2009 1:50 AM, PST
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Avatar, James Cameron's 3D spectacular, had its world premiere in London last night. Stand by for the official verdict from the Guardian, but the shock of the night is that everyone else seems to have loved it
A fortnight ago it all looked so different. An early review of selected footage from James Cameron's space opera, posted anonymously on Gawker, comprehensively panned what had been hailed as a game-changingly ambitious and successful foray into the world of 3D. Avatar, said the writer, apparently an industry insider, was "literally vomit inducing". Despite some "beautiful moments", concluded the review, "overall it's a horrible piece of shit".
This morning, the first official reviews are in, and the anticipated sneers, jeers and retches have been gazumped by notices that will afford the poster designers an embarrassment of riches. "Bottom Line: A titanic entertainment – movie magic is back!" ran the first line of the Hollywood Reporter's rave.
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Jennifer Aniston To Be Adam Sandler's 'Pretend Wife'
9 December 2009 3:00 PM, PST
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Given that Adam Sandler did so well with fake marriage before, in "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry," the comic actor is heading to the non-altar once again. However, this time Sandler is getting a mock wife rather than a mock husband. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jennifer Aniston may costar as his stand-in bride in a romantic comedy titled "Pretend Wife."
"Chuck and Larry" director Dennis Dugan will likely make this his seventh collaboration with Sandler, following the upcoming "Grown Ups." The basic plot for "Pretend Wife" has been uncovered by Pajiba.com, and it sounds a bit odd, kind of like a romantic twist on Lars von Trier's "The Boss of it All."
Apparently Sandler's character is so afraid of commitment that he tells his girlfriend that he's married, with children. His game gets complicated though when the 22-year-old girl of his dreams threatens to leave
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'The Slammin' Salmon,' 'A Single Man' and 'My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?' In This Week's unLimited
8 December 2009 1:00 PM, PST
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This past weekend, "Up in the Air" made more than $1 million on 15 screens while "Transylmania" took in only $250,000 (roughly) on more than 1,000 screens. So you see, limited release doesn't mean limited box office gross, and it certainly doesn't mean limited appeal. Of course, "Up in the Air" stars George Clooney. This week's three spotlighted films opening in limited release don't have that luxury, yet each has enough appeal to enough of a built-in audience that I won't be surprised to see all of them do relatively well with the screens their given.
"A Single Man"
What it is: Fashion designer Tom Ford makes his directorial debut with "A Single Man," a '60s-set drama in which a college professor (Colin Firth) deals with the death of his boyfriend (Matthew Goode). Julianne Moore and Nicholas Hoult, of "About a Boy," also appear as the man's best friend and student, respectively. Based
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Chaos reigns! Antichrist on R2 DVD
7 December 2009 3:16 AM, PST
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Sporting some quite terrible (what was wrong with using the “amended” poster art?) cover art, Lars von Trier’s controversial new film Antichrist is up for pre-order in the UK on DVD and Blu-ray. What’s not yet clear is whether this release will be the fully uncut version of the film. Including torture, graphic violence, unsimulated sex and a scene of genital self-mutilation, the British Board of Film Classification surprised some by allowing the theatrical version of the film to go to UK Cinemas uncut - with an “18” (Nc-17) rating - but that doesn’t automatically guarantee they will do the same with the DVD. Whatever way they decide to go, Antichrist arrives on sale in the UK, on DVD and Blu-ray, January 11th.
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Chaos reigns! Antichrist on R2 DVD
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Sporting some quite terrible (what was wrong with using the “amended” poster art?) cover art, Lars von Trier’s controversial new film Antichrist is up for pre-order in the UK on DVD and Blu-ray. What’s not yet clear is whether this release will be the fully uncut version of the film. Including torture, graphic violence, unsimulated sex and a scene of genital self-mutilation, the British Board of Film Classification surprised some by allowing the theatrical version of the film to go to UK Cinemas uncut - with an “18” (R-17) rating - but that doesn’t automatically guarantee they will do the same with the DVD. Whatever way they decide to go, Antichrist arrives on sale in the UK, on DVD and Blu-ray, January 11th.
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The Naughts: The Actress of the '00s
4 December 2009 10:17 AM, PST
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If time is an avenger, then the Naughts have had it both ways with Nicole Kidman. In the span of a decade, Kidman was transformed from arm candy into an artist -- the rare movie star who made genuinely interesting choices -- eclipsing her ex-husband, Tom Cruise, who filed for divorce in 2000, with an Oscar win and the embrace, finally, of her peers on her own terms.
However, as the '00s limp to a close, Kidman seems to be succumbing to a personal vendetta against time: by manipulating her face into a mask -- a waxworks ideal of "Nicole Kidman" -- rather than continuing to deploy it as a functional instrument, an artist's tool, Kidman is taking perhaps the most surprising risk of her career: she has chosen to age into glacial iconicity. In this, she exemplifies a decade that treated actresses with ambivalence, waving all the flags of
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Micheal Haneke: Masterclasses in Fear
3 December 2009 10:03 AM, PST
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The first time I saw a Micheal Haneke film I was fourteen. Late at night I stumbled across a story, whose title I had missed, about a somewhat reclusive young boy obsessed with violent images, including his own home made video of a pig being killed on a relatives’ farm. A deconstruction of the media, it's violent draw and the moral reactions of those who rely on it's power unfolds as Benny plots and kills a friend on camera. The coldness of the picture unsettled me and I would remember it's images for years to come, never able to find the film again, or its name.
I wouldn't see Benny's Video again until 12 years later, though, when I did, it's power had not diminished. I had remembered the murder and it's lead up, the more obviously off putting aspects of the film, but perhaps the most horrifying part was forgotten about.
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Birds Remake Up In The Air
3 December 2009 8:47 AM, PST
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Hollywood proves yet again the words: sacred and classic translate as: old and remake needed. The man who revitalised the Bond franchise twice (sounds like one of its title) – Martin Campbell – has jumped ship on this re-do of Alfred Hitchcock’s avian horror, The Birds.
Word on the grapevine (according to Pajiba) is that Last House on the Left’s Dennis lliades is circling the project (I will try and get as many bird-related puns in here as possible). Does this Greek filmmaker have a penchant for remakes? Or is it the only work he can get at present. There was a rumour that Naomi Watts was looking at this, but that hardly seems likely now. It gets even worse: Michael Bay is on producing duties.
Hitchcock’s 1963 chiller nested in the pop cultural conscience despite it not being the auteur’s best. Indeed, the first half of the film,
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