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Secret Sunshine

This is the best movie I saw at the NY Film Festival in 2007, but it has just been released in the US, so I have revised my Best Film of 2010 list and included it there, together with director’s Chang Dong Lee newer movie, Poetry, which is also stunning.
The lead actress of Secret Sunshine, Do-yon…

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The Fighter

A friend of mine says that Christian Bale is a bad actor that picks good roles. In my view, that alone makes him half a good actor. She is impatient with Bale’s physical transformations, the emaciations, etc, but like Robert De Niro, Daniel Day Lewis and Sean Penn before him, Bale delivers tremendous…

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I Love You, Phillip Morris

This biting little satire by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, the creators of Bad Santa, is a dark romantic comedy that is truly romantic and truly subversive. For the two people in love are two men, played with gusto and conviction by Jim Carrey and the darling Ewan McGregor.
Carrey…

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Cahiers Du Cinema Ideal Cinematheque

These kinds of lists are meant to be discussed passionately. I agree with many of the 100 movies and disagree with more. For instance, under no circumstances would Godard’s insufferable Pierrot Le Fou make the list, and I would add more Billy Wilder to the canon…

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Blake Edwards

I happen to think that his best work are The Pink Panther movies. I used to watch those with my dad and they always cracked us up. They had a wonderfully zany energy, both deadpan and slapsticky and contagious. Peter Sellers was genius.
I’m not a huge fan of his other work, but The Pink Panther movies…

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Free Jafar Panahi

The putrid and malevolent Iranian government has decided to persecute filmmaker Jafar Panahi because he does not agree with it.
He “was arrested in February and accused of working on an “anti-regime” film. He was sentenced to six years in prison on Saturday in Tehran… he had expressed support for…

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Best and Worst of 2010

What is it with the proliferation of Ten Best Lists? It is impossible for me to think of only ten movies in the course…

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The King’s Speech

I am a total sucker for British thespians with exquisitely plummy enunciation and enormous reserves of repressed emotion. Not…

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The Tempest

This year marks the 400 anniversary of this beautiful and last play by William Shakespeare. There have been a couple of film versions of…

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Black Swan

Wow.
What I love about Darren Aronofsky is that he is not afraid of emotion. He immerses the audience in as much a subjective, emotional experience as he can. As in The Wrestler, Requiem For A Dream and now Black Swan, he aims to get under the skin of his main characters, see what they see, hear, smell what…

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Somewhere

This is a movie…

…about a hollow man (Stephen Dorff)…

…who lives at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood and does nothing all day.
He is rich and miserable. It’s hard to be a movie star.

One day, his daughter (Elle Fanning) comes to see him.
They do nothing all day together.

He continues…

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True Grit

I never saw the John Wayne film, as I am not a John Wayne fan, but as far as I’m concerned, Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn has to be a…

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Tis the Season…

When they cram all the best movies of the year right at the end, and we have to scramble to see everything so we can do our best and worst lists. I resent the pressure.

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Love and Other Drugs

A comedy by Ed Zwick: Five words that should make you run for the hills. Zwick, purveyor of massively important epic spectacles, brings his sledgehammer touch to this cliché-ridden groaner that is supposed to be about Viagra but ends up being about Parkinson’s disease. Zwick is a director…

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All Good Things

I’m still trying to figure out why this movie by Andrew Jarecki (director of the great documentary Capturing the Friedmans)…

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Casino Jack

Kevin Spacey is always a lot of fun to watch, but I don’t think he was the right actor to play Jewish disgrace Jack Abramoff in this tonally confused movie. For one, he’s doing his fabulous Kevin Spacey shtick all over again, and while it is good, nasty fun, one never feels that you are watching a…

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