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Best of the Decade: “Mulholland Drive” (Film Comment)
30 December 2009 6:49 PM, PST
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David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive” has been named the best film of the decade in a Film Comment survey of nearly 200 critics, filmmakers and other cinema insiders from around the world. The film, from 2001, topped Wong Kar Wai’s “In The Mood For Love” on a list of the best 150 movies of the decade published on the Film Comment website. A shorter version of the roster, including some eighteen pages …
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Discussing a Decade: Critics Comment On The 2000s
28 December 2009 8:25 AM, PST
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Last week, indieWIRE published its annual critics poll, with a special question geared toward the best of the decade. Ninety-nine participants decided that David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive” lead some 200 films that received votes in the category, with Wong Kar-wai’s “In The Mood For Love,” Edward Yang’s “Yi Yi” and Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” just behind. Many of the critics also included their written thoughts on the decade …
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The 10 Best Films of the Decade
24 December 2009 7:29 AM, PST
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Daniel Day-Lewis in Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 masterpiece, There Will Be Blood.
There’s no getting around it: ten-best lists are arbitrary and cruel. Summing up as cinematically rich a decade as this one is impossible, and any such attempt can promise nothing but blood feuds and celluloid psychosis. So, let’s give it a try!
10. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
The first decade of this century will be remembered as the moment when comics finally conquered the cinema. At the dawn of the decade, Comic-con was just another massive geek-fest that studios barely acknowledged. Now it’s a necessary stop on any summer blockbuster’s publicity blitz. For studio chiefs in need of $50 million-plus opening weekends, it’s become a mandatory ritual to offer their first-born (director, stars, t-shirts) to the fanboys. From Spiderman to Sin City, the fan gods have been kind (and the studios have cashed in
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IndieWIRE Critics: Summer Hours Best of 2009, Mulholland Dr. Best of Decade
22 December 2009 9:37 PM, PST
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Olivier Assayas' The Summer Hours beat The Hurt Locker and A Serious Man by a nose as the Best Picture of the Year, and a film that took me a couple of tries to acknowledge it as genius in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive was claimed tops of the 00's over my favorite of the decade, Wkw's In the Mood for Love. - I'm a huge fan of lists, especially those that include year end picks from film critic peers that I admire and respect. If there was an French version of IndieWIRE I'm sure their group of critics would be voting the same way as Olivier Assayas' The Summer Hours beat The Hurt Locker and A Serious Man by a nose as the Best Picture of the Year, and a film that took me a couple of tries to acknowledge it as genius in David Lynch
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100 best films of the noughties: Nos 11-90
18 December 2009 2:17 AM, PST
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The Guardian film team's pick of the top 100 movies of the decade. Check back from 21 December as we unveil the top 10 day by day
11-20
11. Waltz With Bashir
12. Dig!
13. The Beat That My Heart Skipped
14. The Consequences of Love
15. No Country for Old Men
16. Silent Light
17. Japon
18. The Sun
19. What Time Is It There?
20. Before Sunset
21-30
21. Unrelated
22. One and a Two
23. Ivansxtc
24. Let the Right One In
25. Of Time and the City
26. When the Levees Broke
27. You Can Count on Me
28. A Serious Man
29. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
30. Control
31-40
31. The Death of Mr Lazarescu
32. Grizzly Man
33. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
34. Être et Avoir
35. Far from Heaven
36. Hidden
37. The Hurt Locker
38. Oldboy
39. The New World
40. The Piano Teacher
41-50
41. Spirited Away
42. Vera Drake
43. American Splendor
44. Capturing the Friedmans
45. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
46. Crimson Gold
47. A History of Violence
48. In the Mood for Love
49. Movern Callar
50. The Night of the Sunflowers
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Wong Kar Wai Takes on A 'Master' Legend in December
12 December 2009 6:25 PM, PST
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In the Mood for Love's Wong Kar Wai is indeed close to a production start with his next oeuvre, the Bruce Lee project which either goes by the title The Grand Master or The Great Master. I'm going with Grand. The news that a December to April shoot.... - At the exact moment where I'm looking forwards and backwards, compiling my top 100 Most Anticipated Films list to see in 2010 and my top 100 films of the decade lists, comes word that In the Mood for Love's Wong Kar Wai is indeed close to a production start with his next oeuvre, the Bruce Lee project which either goes by the title The Grand Master or The Great Master. I'm going with Grand. The news that a December to April shoot is expected comes via Twitchfilm, which means that if everything goes My Blueberry Nights like
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Decade: Wong Kar-wai on “In The Mood For Love”
6 December 2009 10:54 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 2001 with an interview indieWIRE’s Anthony Kaufman had with Wong Kar-wai upon the release of his intensely acclaimed masterwork “In The Mood For Love.” …
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Thai Film Voted Best Of Decade
24 November 2009 2:46 PM, PST
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Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Syndromes and a Century, was selected as the best film of the decade in a poll conducted by the Toronto International Film Festival. Of some 60 film curators, historians and programmers polled by the festival, Syndromes received 53 votes. Coming in second was Chinese director Jia Zhangke's Platform, which received 49 votes by the panel. Jia also nabbed third place, with 48 votes going to his Still Life, which won the Golden Lion for best film at the Venice Film Festival in 2006. French filmmaker Claire Denis's Beau Travail took fourth place with 46 votes. And Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love rounded out the top five with 43 votes.
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Decade in Review: 2001 Top Ten
17 November 2009 8:41 PM, PST
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What follows is my original top ten list of 2001. We'll discuss each year of the decade over the next month or two (we already did 2000). I do this because I am curious about which films "stick" and which fade and why and maybe you are too? Best year of the decade I think. The top five films would all be valid #1 film choices in some years. New comments are in red.
Note: This list references films released in NYC in 2001, not year of production or year in which they first the hit festival circuit or whatnot.
Runners Up (in descending order): Sexy Beast, Ali, Series 7: The Contenders, The Others, Last Resort and Waking Life. I don't remember loving Ali that much... and more than The Others? I don't remember that at all. I mean Nicole Kidman was the shit Twice Over in 2001.
In my round up of the
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Cairo Time
17 October 2009 5:30 AM, PDT
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Although many of us prefer fast-paced romantic movies like Vicky Cristina Barcelona, let it be said that Cairo Time is not a repulsive film. With its interesting premise about two people who don't want to openly confess their feelings for each other and a solid acting, this is a movie you should consider. However, this doesn't mean that Cairo Time doesn't have any flaws.
Juliette (Patricia Clarkson), a workaholic editor of a female magazine, has come to Cairo, the capital city of Egypt, to spend some time with her husband (Tom McCamus) who works for the United Nations (Un). However, once in Cairo, Juliette learns from Tareq (Alexander Siddig), a friend from her husband, that her husband can't be there because he's not done with organizing a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. As she spends some time with Tareq to keep herself busy, Juliette and him will gradually develop a love relationship.
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Halfway House: In the Mood For a Nap
15 October 2009 9:00 AM, PDT
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halfway house halfway through the day, we stop a movie 'bout halfway through... what do we see?
49 minutes into In the Mood for Love: a sticky rice snack and short nap
Mrs. Chan (Maggie Cheung) and Mr. Chow (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) are eating sticky rice, killing time until the coast is clear and she can leave his rented room. They haven't cheated on their spouses (who never appear in the movie) but they're obsessed with appearances Mr. Chow: What would they assume?
Mrs. Chan: One can't put a foot wrong ...and with good reason, too. It's not hard to read their love, however languidly they try to sidestep it. Director Wong Kar Wai, his art director/costumer (William Chang) and cinematographers (Christopher Doyle and Pin Bing Lee) are also obsessed with appearances. The beauty of this movie can render one speechless.
In the Mood For Love just aches with longing throughout.
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- NATHANIEL R
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Tere Kya Hoga Johnny to Premiere at Liff
2 October 2009 12:20 PM, PDT
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Sudhir Mishra's Tere Kya Hoga Johnny/Ride The Wave Johnny will premiere at the London International Film Festival on October 13th and is scheduled for release in India on November 28th. The film stars Neil Nitin Mukesh, Soha Ali Khan and Shahana Goswami. Compared in style to Wong Kar-Wai's In The Mood For Love, the film is a visual feast and Soha Ali Khan a revelation as a girl whose life is running out of control. Neil Nitin Mukesh also establishes himself in the movie as one of the most magnetic of new wave Indian stars. The producers will be making the most of the opportunity by setting up camp in London.
The Festival also features Gulaal, perhaps one of the most under-rated and under-promoted movies of the year. Anurag Kahyap's political thriller about radical student politics stars Kk Menon and Piyush Mishra and starts its run on Saturday,
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Now on Netflix: The Asian Movies Arrive
1 October 2009 1:40 AM, PDT
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Netflix has added an impressive list of new films to their InstantWatch feature again this week. Quite a number of them are great titles from various Asian countries that I'm glad to see made accessible to Us viewers. Some of them are modern classics that need no introduction to cineastes, but others are pleasant surprises.
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
One of my favorite movies of all time, Tetsuo is Japanese cyberpunk at its most definitive. The first feature film by the great Shinya Tsukamoto, Tetsuo is the highly allegorical—and illogical—story of a businessman whose body slowly morphs into machine against his will, after he accidentally runs over a metal fetishist. Perverse, daring and brimming with energy, Tetsuo is one of the coolest things Japanese cult cinema has to offer.
Watch it now
Tokyo!
An anthology series, Tokyo! stands out for being directed by three famous directors (Michel Gondry,
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Chinese Art-House Auteur to Do Sci-Fi?
3 August 2009 9:04 PM, PDT
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He’s recognized the world over for art house dramas and romances starring the brightest stars of Hong Kong. But for his next project, director Stanley Kwan is trying his hand at science fiction.
The Canadian Press reports Kwan’s new film, which is currently shooting in Shanghai, will revolve around a troupe of acrobats from 1930’s China who travel to the present day, where they befriend a group of modern youths. It will be his first movie in four years, after the 2005 romance Everlasting Regret made a splash on the festival circuit.
Kwan described the new film, which has the Chinese title Dancing with Your Heart, as "The Matrix meets song and dance." It will show off the talents of acting and music students Kwan met while developing a Chinese musical.
"Very few of the graduates of Chinese performing arts schools have the chance to start a career in performing arts,
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The greatest movies ever made
2 August 2009 10:59 AM, PDT
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All lists of the "greatest" movies are propaganda. They have no deeper significance. It is useless to debate them. Even more useless to quarrel with their ordering of titles: Why is this film #11 and that one only #31? The most interesting lists are those by one person: What are Scorsese's favorites, or Herzog's? The least interesting are those by large-scale voting, for example by IMDb or movie magazines. The most respected poll, the only one I participate in, is the vote taken every 10 years by Sight & Sound, the British film magazine, which asks a large number of filmmakers, writers, critics, scholars, archivists and film festival directors.
1. The Night of the Hunter, 1955
That one at least has taken on a canonical aspect. The list evolves slowly. Keaton rises, Chaplin falls. It is eventually decided that "Vertigo" is Hitchcock's finest film. Ozu cracks the top ten. Every ten years the net is thrown out again.
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What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #2
2 August 2009 4:26 AM, PDT
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Back again with another installment of "What I Watched, What You Watched," and due to my time in San Diego covering Comic Con and the fact one of the selections included this time around is the complete season from a television show this installment doesn't have as many titles, but the second page has a little extra something I hope you'll be interested in checking out.
As a reminder to those that either didn't read the first installment (read it here) in this new feature series or forgot, "What I Watched, What You Watched" is a chance for me to share with you the movies (and sometimes television shows) I have been watching that don't necessarily make it into the headlines every week. My goal is to do this on a weekly basis unless things get in the way (such as this time around).
I hope this will spark conversation
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Broken Sword With Broken Arm
15 July 2009 7:00 PM, PDT
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"Broken Sword" has broken his arm! It's practically all I've been thinking about today. Perhaps I should explain for those who haven't yet heard...
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai was so injured while training for Wong Kar Wai's next picture, a biopic about Bruce Lee's mentor called The Grand Master (not to be confused with Ip Man starring Donnie Yen which is on the same topic). Apparently his arm must rest for over a month (the September start date is looking shaky). My poor Tony. That arm is a cinematic treasure: it draped languorously over his head while he smoked in bed, it tenderly held stuffed animals and Faye Wong's legs, it smoked endless cigarettes and carried so many noodles, it held Tang Wei down while another appendage had its way with her, it embraced the goddess Maggie Cheung so many times. No real harm should ever come to it.
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Sequel Madness
3 June 2009 7:39 PM, PDT
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I love that Hollywood plans ahead for years and that the internet dutifully hangs on every corporate decision. There's always an internet flurry of excitement about it... as if we're all purchasing calendars for 2011,2012,2013 and circling dates. We eagerly pretend that we're planning our social calendars around it.
I barely know what I'm doing next week.
That said, I love Sam Raimi's Spider-Man movies... so when the teaser poster hit today I did imagine myself lined up on May 6th two years from now, I admit. This despite my feeling that franchises should quit while they're ahead. Q: How do you top Spider-Man 2? A: You don't. You just quit and move on to another project. Even if Hollywood wants to live on a diet of superheroes alone there are still hundreds of them that are awaiting celluloid treatment.
I love superheroes as much as anyone (ok, slightly less I guess.
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Doc Filmmaker Havana Marking's Top Ten Films of All Time
1 June 2009
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- Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of filmmakers? As part of our monthly Ioncinephile profile (interview with filmmaker with an upcoming theatrical release), we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their Top Ten list of All Time Films. This month, Havana Marking (the documentary filmmaker behind Afghan Star - Zeitgeist Films 06/26/2009) gave us her list (in alphabetical order). We present Havana Marking's Top Ten Films of All Time as of June 2009.Bio: Afghan Star is Havana Marking’s first feature documentary, shot over the 4 months in Kabul. She has produced TV docs (both factual entertainment and one-off polemics) for over 10 years now, although directing is relatively new to her: before As she directed The Crippendales (2007)– a 30min film about the first troupe of disabled strippers winning the Channel 4@Sheffield scheme for New Talent.
Etre at Avoir – Nicholas Philibert
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Promotional stills for Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Kuuki Ningyou” (Air Doll).
12 May 2009 5:07 PM, PDT
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The other week Jason Gray hinted at having a batch of stills from the upcoming film Kuuki Ningyou that he couldn’t post until time drew closer to Cannes. Well, it starts tomorrow so there is no better time than today to release those stills upon the public and I can say they were well worth the wait. Wow! The images alone are stunning to look at. How can the film possibly measure up. Mr. Magee over at JFilm, the clever fellow that he is, also noted, “One of the umpteenth reasons why was that it was being shot by cinematographer Lee Ping Bing, who shot Wong Kar Wai’s “In the Mood for Love” along with Christopher Doyle as well as a number of films by Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien. He’s got a wonderful eye and delivers some breathtakingly rich and luminous imagery and it doesn’t
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