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The Best Films of the Decade (aka "The Naughties")
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Best Films Of The Decade (aka The Naughties) From Alex & Terry
List # 1
By Alex Simon
When Terry and I initially discussed writing these lists, I had a tough time thinking back on 20 films over the past decade which I was really taken with, thinking that movies have sunk so low over the past ten years, that even choosing a dozen would be a short-order job. Thirty minutes into it, my list had nearly 60 titles! After much cutting, pasting, and re-cutting and pasting, here are my top 20 films (in no particular order) of the first decade of the 21st century, dubbed by many as “the naughties.” --A.S.
1.No Country for Old Men (Coen Brothers, 2007) An elegiac blend of stark beauty and full-throttle despair from two of our finest filmmakers, set in the contemporary American West. Every frame is damn near flawless, and would have been an even more perfect vehicle for the late Sam Peckinpah.
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The people who ruined the decade
11 December 2009 4:58 PM, PST
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Part 2: From Andrew Sachs to Harry Potter
Andrew Sachs Sent the Beeb into cautious compliance meltdown
If Manuel had bothered to pick up his phone, Ross and Brand wouldn't have been tempted to leave their naughty messages, the Daily Mail wouldn't have been able to work itself up into a hypocritical moralistic lather, thousands of people who'd never heard the original show wouldn't have rung in to complain, Russell Brand would still have his Radio 2 show instead of Alan bleedin' Carr, and the BBC wouldn't get all jumpy every time Frankie Boyle made jokes about the Queen's fanny. See Also The Satanic Slut
Steve Jobs Killed the album with his zero-attention-span 'apps'
It was supposed to be so easy. Get your CDs, rip them in to iTunes, put them on your iPod. Then, whenever a latent desire to listen to Reo Speedwagon arose you could sate it right away.
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The people who ruined the decade
11 December 2009 4:58 PM, PST
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Part 2: From Andrew Sachs to Harry Potter
Andrew Sachs Sent the Beeb into cautious compliance meltdown
If Manuel had bothered to pick up his phone, Ross and Brand wouldn't have been tempted to leave their naughty messages, the Daily Mail wouldn't have been able to work itself up into a hypocritical moralistic lather, thousands of people who'd never heard the original show wouldn't have rung in to complain, Russell Brand would still have his Radio 2 show instead of Alan bleedin' Carr, and the BBC wouldn't get all jumpy every time Frankie Boyle made jokes about the Queen's fanny. See Also The Satanic Slut
Steve Jobs Killed the album with his zero-attention-span 'apps'
It was supposed to be so easy. Get your CDs, rip them in to iTunes, put them on your iPod. Then, whenever a latent desire to listen to Reo Speedwagon arose you could sate it right away.
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The Naughts: The Documentary of the '00s
7 December 2009 10:17 AM, PST
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Sometimes superlatives need to be slung, such as when speaking of the richest, most ambitious and exciting decade yet for nonfiction film -- and, really, what other variety could back up that boast? To nail down a single doc as the preeminent work that typifies these years is no easy task, especially since the best of the bunch attacked specific subjects with laser-like precision and idiosyncratic techniques. (Sit tight, the lede is about to be buried.)
The '00s legitimized the allure of the "pop doc," a trend that shoehorns potentially lackluster material into glossy narratives. Spelling bees were transformed into suspense thrillers ("Spellbound"), quadriplegic rugby players did their own stunts ("Murderball"), tangoing kids got their dance-off ("Mad Hot Ballroom"), a reckless but beautiful feat of derring-do was reenacted like a heist procedural ("Man on Wire"), and a PBS-style nature film became a blockbuster saga of familial survival ("March of the Penguins"). Who'd have thought,
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Terra Naomi in Kashmir to highlight climate change
7 December 2009 4:42 AM, PST
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Srinagar, Dec 7 (Ians) After performing at picturesque Gulmarg, Us pop star Terra Naomi is set to sing on the banks of the Dal Lake here as part of her global campaign to create awareness about climate change.
“She will sing the famous song ‘Say it’s possible’ wearing local attire and playing her own guitar. The song is inspired by former Us vice president Al Gore’s film ‘An Inconvenient Truth’,” said Usman Ahmad, regional director of Mercy Corps, an Ngo that has organised Terra’s campaign in Kashmir.
The concert Monday evening is aimed at attracting local and international attention towards climate change, he added.
“She has urged the world leaders meeting at.
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Review of the decade: Peter Bradshaw's noughties round-up
7 December 2009 3:01 AM, PST
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Hollywood struggled to respond to the war on terror, documentaries went through a golden age, and Michael Haneke was the noughties' moral conscience
If it is possible to whimper at the volume of a bang, then that is how this decade is ending on the big screen: with two high-profile, high-budget movies about the end of the world: Roland Emmerich's cheerfully silly 2012, and John Hillcoat's cheerlessly serious The Road, which arrive with a good deal of commentary to the effect that these movies typify the zeitgeist of the decade.
The noughties – that jokey word coined in the carefree 90s – are seen as damaged, injured, traumatised. The decade looks cracked from top to bottom by a sensational act of terrorism; by a reaction that achieved neither political palliative nor military success; by the confrontation between first-world prosperity and developing-world poverty; by the coming environmental catastrophe that threatens to engulf both; and finally,
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2010 Sundance Film Festival Line-Up Announced
3 December 2009 10:01 AM, PST
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It's almost that time of year again! The Sundance Film Festival unveiled their 2010 line-up yesterday, which includes 112 feature-length films from 39 different countries. As always, the vast majority of filmmakers are unknowns, and many are first-time directors, so it's kind of hard to tell which ones hold the most promise. However, you can bet that a number of these will be movies that people are raving about by the end of 2010. A few of the highlights include:
Sympathy for Delicious: Directed by Mark Ruffalo and starring Orlando Bloom as a paralyzed DJ who seeks out the world of faith healing.
Howl: Starring James Franco as the beat poet Allen Ginsberg.
Casino Jack & The United States of Money:Alex Gibney-directed doc about D.C. super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Lucky: Documentary about lottery winners by Jeffrey Blitz (Spellbound).
Welcome to the Rileys: Kristen Stewart plays a young stripper who forms a
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Sundance Lineup: Sebastian Junger War Doc, Pat Tillman Story
2 December 2009 1:04 PM, PST
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By Lisa Horowitz
The latest film from "An Inconvenient Truth" director Davis Guggenheim and Amir Bar-Lev's documentary about football player-turned-soldier Pat Tillman are among the documentaries set for the competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
The Sundance Institute on Wednesday announced the lineup of films selected to screen in the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary competitions for the 2010 festival.
On Thursday, the festival will reveal the lineup of films in five out-of-competition sections.
Well-known names on the list of documentary directors inc
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Gold Derby nuggets: Hit docs left off Oscars long list | Crazy journey for 'Crazy Heart' | 'Lost' returns Feb. 2
19 November 2009 6:55 PM, PST
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• Only 15 of the 89 feature-length documentaries eligible made it onto the academy's long list that will now be winnowed down to a final five by members of the documentary branch. Among those widely distributed docs that failed to make the cut were Oscar champ Michael Moore's ("Bowling for Columbine") latest effort "Capitalism: A Love Story" -- which merited just 61 at Metacritic -- as well as "The September Issue" (Mc score of 69), Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim's ("An Inconvenient Truth") rock doc "It Might Get Loud" (Mc score of 70), "Anvil! The Story of Anvil" (Mc score of 82) and "Tyson" (Mc score of 83). Each of the sub-themes of those snubbed docs
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No Michael Moore in Oscar's Documentary Short List? What's up, Doc?
19 November 2009 1:42 PM, PST
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Surpassed only by Twilight’s Volturi in terms of blood-sucking elitism, the Academy’s documentary committee winnowed the field of Oscar hopefuls in the feature documentary category to 15. For those who wish to score major ‘Obama’ points at their next macrobiotic wine tasting, the full list of mandatory viewing can be found below. And for those poor souls who simply want a leg up in their Oscar pool, perhaps we can help them read between the lines of the committee's arcane choices. The first insight is that the Academy continues its time-honored tradition of scorning all things popular with the seething, worm-like masses. It’s not much of a surprise that Michael Moore’s coy, agitprop piece Capitalism: A Love Story didn’t make the cut. After Moore violated the first rule of Academy Club—you do not talk politics at Academy Club—with his acceptance speech for Farenheit 9/11, it
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Michael Moore won’t be causing a ruckus at the Oscars this year
19 November 2009 8:34 AM, PST
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In a surprising snub, Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story heads a list of high profile non-fiction features ignored in the long-list vying for a Best Documentary Academy Award Nomination.
The rotund polemicist had previously won the award for Bowling Columbine and pushed for his Palme D’Or winning follow-up Fahrenheit 9/11 to contend in the Best Picture category. The snub is quite astonishing although it may well relate to his controversial acceptance speech in 2002 where he used the Academy stage to badmouth then incumbent president George W. Bush.
Capitalism: A Love Story is joined, rather incredibly, by James Toback’s insightful Tyson biopic and one of the years best films Anvil! The Story of Anvil. Moore was also not the only former winner to fail to gain a nomination either. David Guggenheim, director of An Inconvenient Truth, and his film It Might Get Loud also constitute a notable omission.
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Oscar Watch: Documentary Branch Snubs Capitalism: A Love Story
18 November 2009 4:14 PM, PST
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The Academy documentary branch has named their short list of fifteen films (full list on jump), which will be narrowed down to five on Oscar nominations morning February 2. Winning the Oscar would seem to have been a disqualifier this year, as the doc committee snubbed this year’s highest-profile documentary, Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story as well as It Might Get Loud, whose director David Guggenheim won the Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth. This group tends to lean toward social activism like The Cove or Food Inc. (the only film to score top noms at the Gotham, Cinema Eye, and Ida Documentary Awards) more than …
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PGA Honors Precious.
18 November 2009 3:18 PM, PST
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Jose here with some award news.
Continuing to establish itself as a front runner in the awards race, Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire, has been chosen by the Producers Guild of America to receive its prestigious Stanley Kramer Award for illuminating provocative social issues in an accessible and elevating fashion.
This award not only confirms the movie will be one of the ten chosen by the PGA for its Producer of the Year award, but bodes well for its chances of getting even more Oscar attention.
The Academy simply loves social issues (remember 2005?) and Kramer (who directed and produced Inherit the Wind and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner among others) was an icon in this aspect, even if the quality of the films he made didn't amount to much artistically. Stanley's films always talked about things we wanted to ignore. He taught us so much about ourselves
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Gore Urged To Go Veggie For 30 Days
11 November 2009 5:41 PM, PST
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Celebrated environmental activist Al Gore has a new challenge on his hands - to go veggie for 30 days.
The politician, author and star of documentary An Inconvenient Truth will face PETA protesters when he arrives at a book signing event in Los Angeles on Thursday; they'll be urging Gore to give up meat.
Led by a near-naked activist dressed as Mother Earth, the PETA supporters will attempt to convince Gore that vegetarianism is a key to securing the future of the planet.
PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman says, "More and more, we are hearing about the damage that meat production does to our water supply, the forests, and the global climate.
"In light of these reports, we are asking Mr. Gore simply to try going vegetarian for 30 days. During that time, he could save eight animals' lives and maybe even his own!"
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'9/11' Tops 'Telegraph' Movies of the Decade List
7 November 2009 1:11 AM, PST
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We're just a couple months away from the acknowledged end of the decade (it's really next year, because there was never a year zero, so this decade actually ends in 2010), and that means we'll get Best of the Decade lists on top of Best of the Year lists. I'm actually looking forward to the process myself and I'm revisiting some of the 25 movies or so I think have a chance to make my own list.
The Telegraph has unveiled a top 100 list, but not necessarily in terms of quality. Instead, we have the most significant hundred films from the past decade, the movies that "defined" the decade. There are, of course, some picks you'll certainly agree with; we have the top 25 listed and you can read the paper's entire list and see even more great films. But their selection of Fahrenheit 9/11 as the number one movie of the past ten years is almost completely unqualified.
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Film: Review:Collapse
5 November 2009 12:01 PM, PST
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The current documentary landscape is chockfull of doom-laden scenarios of every stripe: If global warming (An Inconvenient Truth) doesn’t get you, then maybe genetically engineered Frankenfoods (Food, Inc.), will. Or contaminated water (Flow). Or crushing personal (Maxed Out) and national (I.O.U.S.A.) debt. But few apocalyptic visions are as comprehensive and frighteningly assured as the one offered by Michael Ruppert, the subject of Chris Smith’s mesmerizing new documentary Collapse. A former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter, Ruppert has chased big stories for his self-published newsletter, From The Wilderness, on everything from CIA involvement
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This Is It Madness
3 November 2009 2:03 PM, PST
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two brief but belated Oscar notes
For months now, people have been reciting various reasons why the 10-Wide Best Picture field is a bad idea. For all the chatter no one has yet talked about the most harmful effect of this decision: armchair and professional punditry has slipped, perhaps irrevocably, into insanity. The world has entirely forgotten what the Oscars are like or, rather, what they like. In the summer everyone seemed convinced that totally atypical films like Star Trek (X), The Hangover and District 9 were Best Picture likely. The new 'Best Pic Nominee To Be' is This Is It, the Michael Jackson documentary. [I've tried not to mention this article for well over 48ish hours but I've finally caved because it's been haunting my thoughts ever since. Share in the daymares with me!] That prediction comes despite the fact that Michael Jackson has never even been so much as a songwriting Oscar nominee and no documentary has ever performed that trick. In fact, I'm not sure you'd even be able to find a documentary that has managed more
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Review: Earth Days
1 November 2009 12:36 PM, PST
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Here we are, the day after Halloween. The day of the dead, All Hallow’s Eve, has come and past for another year and we now fully embrace the autumn season, the season of temporary death. This is the season of life going dormant, but it does so with the intent of reviving itself even stronger and more fertile in the months of spring. So, for me it seems a fitting time for a new documentary about the state of our environment.
So, I can almost hear the many voices asking why we need another documentary on this subject, one that has been nearly beaten into the ground as of late. But, has it really run it’s course? Have we really seen any impact in practice from the previous slew of documentaries on the topic? Personally, I believe we’ve only begun to even consider the truth of the relationship between us,
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Former VP Al Gore To Make His 6th "Late Show" Guest Appearance Tuesday
28 October 2009 5:12 AM, PDT
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Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore will be visiting David Letterman's "Late Show" next week. He will be making his sixth guest appearance on the CBS show Tuesday, November 3.
Gore will be releasing his new book, "Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis," on the same day as his TV appearance. Brad Paisley will be the musical guest on that day.
He has also authored a few other bestsellers, such as "Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit," "An Inconvenient Truth," and "The Assault on Reason."
Gore was the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his dedication to the environment.
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Good Halloween Movie Double Features
24 October 2009 8:00 PM, PDT
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With Halloween on the horizon, a lot of people might be planning a shindig of some sort to celebrate. Most will have costume parties, which is terrific, as they usually involve scantily clad females pretending to be something ordinary like a prison guard or dental hygienist, but really sexy. These parties will also most likely contain disturbing, horror-themed food-stuffs, and an increasingly gory display of body parts strewn across the premises like something out of a bad crime scene.
(I tell you, if I had money, I would invest in a Halloween store, as they seem to make mint and only have to work 3 months of the year).
There are also large groups of nerds out there (myself included) who enjoy subjecting their friends to horror movies they may have not yet seen, or seen with a group of people, which is the best way to experience most horror flicks.
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