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Amid the plethora of “best of the 2000s” lists doing the rounds, the London Film Critics’ Circle has decided to go one (or two, rather) better. Since the end of this decade coincides with the organization’s 30th anniversary, they’ve rather oddly elected five standout films of the last three decades. Take note that it’s not […]
When one decade isn’t enough
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:24 pm · December 4th, 2009
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Searching for Oscar meaning in IMDb’s top 15 of the millennium
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:02 am · August 19th, 2009
Over at IMDb there is a new feature called “The Power of Film” (lofty title, that), which has listed out the top 15 films of the millennium as voted on by IMDB users, i.e., fans, the public, regular folks. The IMDb top 250 is an ever-changing mish-mash of high-,middle- and low-brow entertainment that always makes […]
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Is ‘The Class’ in a position to upset ‘Bashir?’
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:34 pm · February 12th, 2009
(UPDATE: I see Dave Karger is placing his money on “The Class” too. Interesting.) Yesterday, Kris took a look at the Best Documentary Feature category, and wondered whether the winner there is quite the foregone conclusion that most people think. Supporting his argument was the category’s unusual rule that voters have to have seen all […]
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Two years on
Posted by Guy Lodge · 9:39 am · December 19th, 2008
Considering it’s written by the editor-in-chief of the foremost entertainment news publication in Hollywood, Peter Bart’s Variety blog continues (for this reader, at least) to be a disconcertingly slipshod affair. That his pieces frequently appear so rushed and second-hand is enough cause for concern without throwing elementary factual errors into the mix. But his most […]
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‘O’ Horten’ trailer
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:06 pm · November 13th, 2008
Bent Hamer’s “O’ Horten,” Norway’s submission for Best Foreign Language Film, has just got the shiny Apple treatment for its trailer. It looks melancholy, sweetly strange and altogether rather winning, as one would expect from the always interesting Hamer, whose Matt Dillon-starring 2005 effort “Factotum” really deserved more notice. The trailer comes complete with besotted […]
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Italy leads the charge at European Film Awards
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:12 pm · November 8th, 2008
Proof positive that 2008 is a banner year for Italian cinema: Matteo Garrone’s “Gomorrah” and Paolo Sorrentino’s “Il Divo,” both masterpieces of a very different stylistic ilk, lead all nominees for the European Film Awards, with five nominations apiece. Joing them in the hunt for Best European Film are “The Class” and “Happy-Go-Lucky,” which makes […]
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SHORT TAKE: “The Baader Meinhof Complex” (***)
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:54 am · October 29th, 2008
Germany has hit something of a sweet spot with the Academy of late, having won Best Foreign Language Film twice in seven years, and scoring two additional nominations — all with somber, rock-solid takes on aspects of the country’s fascinating 20th-century history. (Last year’s winner, “The Counterfeiters,” may have been from Germany’s neighbor Austria, but […]
The Guardian dashes Ledger’s Oscar hopes
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:05 am · July 2nd, 2008
Not particularly new or earth-shattering perspective, but worth a link nontheless. From a Xan Brooks item this morning in The Guardian: History…is not on [Ledger’s] side. James Dean was twice nominated in the wake of his death and yet still finished up as a posthumous loser on the night. More recently, Oliver Reed (for Gladiator) […]
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