With 2010 only a week over, it already feels like best-of and top-ten lists have been pouring in for months, and we’re already tired of them: the ranking, the exclusions (and inclusions), the rules and the qualifiers. Some people got to see films at festivals, others only catch movies on video; and the ability for us, or any publication, to come up with a system to fairly determine who saw what when and what they thought was the best seems an impossible feat. That doesn’t stop most people from doing it, but we liked the fantasy double features we did last year and for our 3rd Writers Poll we thought we'd do it again.
I asked our contributors to pick a single new film they saw in 2010—in theaters or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they saw in 2010 to create a unique double feature.
I asked our contributors to pick a single new film they saw in 2010—in theaters or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they saw in 2010 to create a unique double feature.
- 1/10/2011
- MUBI
David Cairns
The Forgotten: Red Tape
The Forgotten: Socko!
The Forgotten: 1001 Nights at the Cinema
The Forgotten: An Empty Room and the Right Kind of People
Fernando F. Croce
Office Spaces: "Babnik" (Alejandro Adams, 2010)
Adrian Curry
Movie Poster of the Week: The Films of Masahiro Shinoda
Movie Poster of the Week: "Despair"
Movie Poster of the Week: The 54th BFI London Film Festival
Movie Posters of the Week: "Black Swan" and "Black Cat"
Movie Poster of the Week: "For Colored Girls"
Michael Guillen
Cinema Is Dead / Long Live Cinema: A Conversation with Federico Veiroj
Meditating On Meteorites: A Conversation with Patricio Guzmán
Daniel Kasman
David Fincher and The Sad Facts
A Listen Back: Music Discovered at Tiff 2010
Nyff 2010. Doppelgangers and Masterworks
Tailor Made (On "Hereafter" and "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger")
Images of the Day: Missing Images from "Eyes Wide Shut"
Video of the Day. "Goddamn Dracula-black":...
The Forgotten: Red Tape
The Forgotten: Socko!
The Forgotten: 1001 Nights at the Cinema
The Forgotten: An Empty Room and the Right Kind of People
Fernando F. Croce
Office Spaces: "Babnik" (Alejandro Adams, 2010)
Adrian Curry
Movie Poster of the Week: The Films of Masahiro Shinoda
Movie Poster of the Week: "Despair"
Movie Poster of the Week: The 54th BFI London Film Festival
Movie Posters of the Week: "Black Swan" and "Black Cat"
Movie Poster of the Week: "For Colored Girls"
Michael Guillen
Cinema Is Dead / Long Live Cinema: A Conversation with Federico Veiroj
Meditating On Meteorites: A Conversation with Patricio Guzmán
Daniel Kasman
David Fincher and The Sad Facts
A Listen Back: Music Discovered at Tiff 2010
Nyff 2010. Doppelgangers and Masterworks
Tailor Made (On "Hereafter" and "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger")
Images of the Day: Missing Images from "Eyes Wide Shut"
Video of the Day. "Goddamn Dracula-black":...
- 11/3/2010
- MUBI
Alejandro Adams sets up worlds and leaps into them, no establishing shot needed. The Bay Area auteur’s third feature film, Babnik, opens with people bunched around a table, the camera panning from tight close-up to tight close-up. Russian is spoken, and narrative groundwork is laid, casually, between phone calls: Rooms need to be rented, models found, websites set up, etc. Where are we? Cut to an introverted émigré being sent home by his American bosses in what could be a scene from Office Space if it weren’t for the notes of dread hanging in the air. (“They told me, gently, that they are getting rid of me,” he tells his wife.) Elsewhere, a broom-pushing scowler works at a deli and watches from the sidelines. Business decisions, all, and only gradually does Adams reveal that the business connecting his ensemble is sex-trafficking, the meat market harvesting young women marooned in a strange land.
- 10/11/2010
- MUBI
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