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Discussing a Decade: Critics Comment On The 2000s
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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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What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #23
27 December 2009 2:32 AM, PST
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Well, the lack of screenings last week allowed me to take in a lot more films at home, on top of being able to show my family some they had yet to see over the holiday weekend. So, without further delay let's dig in as I have nine films to talk about this week and I have spread them out over two pages.
Julia (2009)
Quick Thoughts: There have been a few folks around the Internet cheering for Tilda Swinton's performance in Julia as the best lead female performance of 2009. After finally seeing the film I am willing to concede it is definitely a good performance, but I can't quite understand where the over-the-top adulation from some corners is all about. The film itself is also quite entertaining, especially considering it is too long. However, I realize now the best way to fill your film with Tons of cliches is
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Discuss: Can 'The Hurt Locker' Win Best Picture?
25 December 2009 6:03 PM, PST
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When it was announced earlier this year that the Academy would expand the Best Picture category to ten nominees, my first thought was that the year's best film, The Hurt Locker, actually has a chance to get nominated. Now it has been winning critics' awards and turning up on nearly every top ten list, very often at #1. It seems to be the movie of choice for both highbrow and mainstream film critics, which is part of its charm. Lately I started thinking that even if the category were only five, The Hurt Locker might have a chance to get a nomination, and now it seems like it might even have a chance to win.
But then I think back to 2001. At the end of the year, David Lynch's Mulholland Drive was the clear critics' favorite, just as The Hurt Locker is this year. And, indeed, Mulholland Drive has gone
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- Jeffrey M. Anderson
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Films Of The Decade – Ed’s List
23 December 2009 5:17 PM, PST
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Each decade of celluloid is defined by its psychological preoccupations. Oh yes it is, don’t look at me like that. The 9/11 terror attacks on New York and Washington cast a long shadow over the first decade of the 21st century. The Nineties had been a relatively stable and optimistic era by comparison and was all the more moribund for it. Tom Sizemore’s speech in Katherine Bigelow’s Strange Days (1995) summed up the emerging consensus – “everything’s been done, every kind of music’s been tried, every government’s been tried, every fuckin’ hairstyle. How you gonna make it another thousand years, for Chrissake?”
But it wasn’t quite the end of history after all. After 9/11 the zeitgeist became politically-charged once more as it had been in more polarised times. Entertainment was not immune from this effect, nor could it afford to be. With rare exceptions such as Paul Greengrass
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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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Summer Hours Best Film of 2009 – indieWIRE Poll
22 December 2009 12:47 PM, PST
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Juliette Binoche in Summer Hours ( Jeannick Gravelines / IFC Films)
Olivier Assayas’ family drama Summer Hours has been named the best film of 2009 in indieWIRE’s annual poll of 114 film critics and bloggers, Eugene Hernandez reports. Also, David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. was chosen the best film of the decade.
Starring Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, and Jérémie Renier, Summer Hours tells the story of three siblings fighting for the possessions left behind by their deceased mother (Edith Scob) at the family’s summer house. Earlier this month, Summer Hours was voted the best foreign language film of 2009 by the Los Angeles, New York, and Boston film critics.
Following in second place in indieWIRE’s poll was Joel and Ethan Coen’s A Serious [...]
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- Anna Robinson
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The 10 most underrated movies of the decade
22 December 2009 2:24 AM, PST
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As the noughties tick down, let's shine a belated spotlight on the films that never got their due at release in the past 10 years
With the mood of reflection common to all year-ends magnified by this being the close of a decade, the list-loving world of film is awash with rundowns of the finest moments of not just 2009 but the entire noughties. In this very spot, you'll have already seen the Guardian's crack team reveal the first 90 titles of their golden hundred, with the final 10 being unveiled over the days ahead. But in the spirit of fair play, I thought it might also be worth drafting a top 10 of a slightly different nature – not the decade's best per se, but it's most underrated.
In short, what with this being the season of goodwill and so on, it might be apt to briefly pick out in the spotlight those films that
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- Danny Leigh
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Weitzman's Million Dollar Shoe On Ice For 2010 Oscars
21 December 2009 10:56 AM, PST
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Top designer Stuart Weitzman has decided to give his famous Million Dollar Shoe the boot at the Oscars for the second year running - thanks to the continued global economic downturn.
Each year, Weitzman personally sizes and crafts a special jewelled shoe for one lucky up-and-coming lady to wear to the Academy Awards.
But the tradition was halted for 2009 due to the recession and Weitzman has chosen to keep the diamonds on ice for the 2010 ceremony too.
He tells the New York Post's gossip column PageSix, "There will be no Million Dollar Shoe for the Oscars this year. With so many people struggling financially, and unemployment at 10 per cent, I don't think it is appropriate. The actresses still want to go for glamour, but this year it will be more understated."
The lucky ladies who have worn Weitzman's Million Dollar Shoe to past Oscars have included Ray star Regina King, Dreamgirls actress Anika Noni Rose and Mulholland Drive's Laura Harring.
Among those who have worn his shoes to other red carpet events are Angelina Jolie, Katie Holmes, and Kate Winslet.
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Foolish Golden Globe Predictions
13 December 2009 11:08 AM, PST
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Best Picture Drama
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious BasterdsThe Last Station
PreciousUp in the Air
The Globes sometimes throw in really interesting critical darlings that don't have much of a shot at Oscar (like Mulholland Drive or Eastern Promises) and sometimes they latch on to brand new movies that nobody cares about the next day (The Great Debaters) so, really, who the hell knows?!? Which is why I'm just tossing up my hands and predicting The Last Station. But honestly it feels like there's about 12 pictures that might be nominated. You could even see The Road surprising (they have a documented thing for Viggo) The reason I'm ignoring Avatar is that it just barely started screening. I don't know when the Hfpa starting voting but the Bfca ballots, for example, were due on Saturday, roughly 36 hours after the first Avatar screenings... at least here in NYC. And based on when the
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- NATHANIEL R
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'Return of the Jedi,' Directed by David Lynch?
12 December 2009 8:02 AM, PST
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Even the thought of directing Wookies gave him a migraine headache. Still, out of respect, David Lynch met with George Lucas in the early 1980s to talk about directing the second sequel to his landmark blockbuster, eventually titled Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. Lynch recalls Lucas telling him about Wookies and "a lot of other animals," having lunch at a restaurant where only salad was served -- "not that I have anything against salad" -- and developing a migraine headache so severe that he snuck off to call his agent and beg not to make the movie. Lynch's conversation at the Hudson Union Society was captured by Fora.tv and is embedded after the jump.
In hindsight, knowing that Lynch would go on to make Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway, and Mulholland Dr., it sounds like an insane idea, as in "What Was George Smoking?
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- Peter Martin
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Monster Movies
11 December 2009 4:07 AM, PST
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Glenn here from Stale Popcorn here to discuss one of my favourite films from 2003, Patty Jenkins' Monster. Earlier this year when Courtney Hunt's Frozen River was released here in Australia I wrote in my review that It's a shame that Courtney Hunt's Frozen River is so good. It's unfortunate because now I will most likely be incredibly disappointed when this debut director falls between the cracks of the lead performance she helped create. I then went on to cite Boys Don't Cry's Kimberley Pierce (9 years between films) and Monster as examples.
Patty Jenkins has yet to make a second film after her Monster debut and there has never even been any word on her wanting to make another film. That is such a shame since she brought such fascinating sense of place to the Aileen Wuornos film and her twists on the idea of "American Gothic
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- Glenn Dunks
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David Lynch to direct new Lady Dior advert
10 December 2009 4:33 AM, PST
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Fashion Dilemma
What will David Lynch's Dior advert look like?
Picture the scene: A woman sits in a darkened room, her pale face illuminated by the light of a streetlamp shining through the slats of a venetian blind. She is strikingly beautiful. She is crying, but she's still beautiful - not red-faced and swollen-eyed like normal people. This is because she is Lady Dior.
Lady Dior has a small blue Perspex box in front of her. She reaches out her slender and well-manicured fingers to touch the box. Kazzzam!!!
Lady Dior awakes on a beach in Miami. The camera pans out, accompanied only by the sounds of the waves crashing against the shore. We see in the distance that Lady Dior is
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David Lynch's Funny Tale of Meeting George Lucas and Rejecting Return of the Jedi
10 December 2009 3:15 AM, PST
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Fora.tv recently posted an interview with David Lynch at the Hudson Union Society. The 63-year-old creator of Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and Twin Peaks took time to talk a little about his experience meeting George Lucas, who offered him the chance to direct Return of the Jedi.
Lynch amused the audience by saying he had "next-door to zero interest" in the project, but he thought he should at least meet with Lucas. He then described the elaborate process of simply getting to Lucas.
It was incredible. I had to go to this building in La first and get a special credit card, and I had to get special keys; a letter came, and a map.
Finally, after taking a flight and driving a rental car to some building, he met with Lucas in an office.
Now, right about in this time, I started getting a little bit of a headache.
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- Rich Z Zwelling
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The Naughts: The Romantic Pair of the '00s
9 December 2009 2:59 PM, PST
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I knew what she looked like by heart this time.
That scrap of newspaper she was on should
have been worn ragged by now, the number of
times I'd pulled it out and looked at it when I
was alone in the place.
-- Cornell Woolrich, "The Black Angel"
It's the fear as much as the tenderness. It's the desperation in the way they clutch hands in a darkened theater, and the sensuousness in the way they caress each other in bed. It's the contradiction of having found yourself by stepping into a mystery, and the cruelty of discovering that the heaven of love is a gossamer skein stretched over a black hole. "And the mysteries of love come clear," is the way David Lynch put the paradox in the song he wrote for "Blue Velvet." Those mysteries have never been as heartrending in Lynch's work as they are in
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- Charles Taylor
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David Lynch talks Return Of The Jedi
9 December 2009 2:51 PM, PST
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No, your eyes do not deceive you. It has long been rumored that experimental director David Lynch (Mulholland Dr.) was once someone George Lucas sought out to helm the third sixth installment of his Star Wars series. It was also once rumored that Stanley Kurbrick was yet another choice for Jedi, but upon meeting screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan in my teenage years and asking him about said rumor, it was directly dispelled with a grin and a giggle.
Read more on David Lynch talks Return Of The Jedi…
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- James Wallace
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'Gossip Girl' recap: Chuck hangs with his father...and meets his mother (maybe)!!
8 December 2009 4:00 AM, PST
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This season of Gossip Girl is turning into a regular family reunion. We’ve met Vanessa’s annoying mother. We learned that Serena’s father had popped back up on the radar. And now we have seen Mother Bass or some lady who has the same taste in flowers. I knew she was still alive! In fact, I called this waaaay back when Chuck and Dan ended up in jail in season 2 and Chuck discussed his mother’s death. I knew it! Of course, I could totally be wrong and this mystery lady, played by Mulholland Drive’s Laura Harring,
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- Tim Stack
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Johnny Marr to write debut film score
3 December 2009 3:13 AM, PST
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The former Smiths guitarist is to compose the music for a movie starring Antonio Banderas and Snoop Dogg. Don't hold your breath for a Morrissey cameo though ...
Johnny Marr will compose the score to a forthcoming film starring Antonio Banderas and Snoop Dogg. The former Smiths guitarist has been asked to write original music for The Big Bang, a detective film by director Tony Krantz.
"This will be Johnny's first film score and he was just ranked the number one greatest guitarist of all time by Virgin Media," producer Reece Pearson told MovieScore magazine. But while Marr is celebrated for his riffs, he is a relatively unknown when it comes to soundtracks. However, he has already announced a partnership with Ian Brown to score three television dramas, but it is unclear when these programmes will air.
The Big Bang is the story of a private detective, played by Banderas, as
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George Books In Baby
2 December 2009 8:26 AM, PST
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Australian actress Melissa George has booked in time to have a baby next year.
The Mulholland Drive star married Chilean director Claudio Dabed in 2000, and they have waited nine years to start a family.
But George is adamant she wants to get pregnant in 2010 and she's pinpointed a gap in her schedule when she can realistically take time off for a baby.
She says, "I'm going to have a baby. I have booked three different movies starting in February going all the way through to July, which I am really happy about. Then I think I will just have a baby after that."
George, 33, is a stepmother to Dabed's 15-year-old daughter Martina, from a previous relationship.
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'New Moon' wolfpack leader Chaske Spencer on cougars and fainters
22 November 2009 1:30 PM, PST
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Chaske Spencer, the actor who plays wolfpack leader Sam Uley, talked to EW about getting cast, meeting randy Twilight fans, and playing the leader of the pack.
Entertainment Weekly: When did all this start for you, and when is it done?
Chaske Spencer: It started for me March 5 when I got cast in New Moon, and I don’t know when it’s going to be done. It’s been like a wild ride. We got cast and there was already sort of a buzz about us. As it got closer, you kept feeling the buildup and the buildup,
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- Kerrie Mitchell
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Box, The | Review
19 November 2009 10:00 AM, PST
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Director: Richard Kelly
Writer(s): (short story "Button, Button") Richard Matheson, (screenplay) Richard Kelly
Starring: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella
The Box begins with a CIA internal memo being typed out onscreen concerning a man named Arlington Steward who has suffered severe burn wounds. Next thing we know, it is 1976 and we find ourselves in Richmond, Virginia as Norma (Cameron Diaz) and Arthur Lewis (James Marsden) are awoken (at 5:45 am) by their doorbell. Norma notices a mysterious black sedan pulling away and she discovers a non-descript box wrapped in brown paper on their front step. Norma and Arthur open the box, it contains: a wooden box with a button protected by a glass dome, a key, and a note reading something along the lines of “Mr. Steward will come at 5:00 pm.”
Later in the morning, their son Walter (Sam Oz Stone) leaves for school. Arthur drives
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