http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2011/12/slant-magazines-top-25-films-of-2011/
(Look at Ed Gonzalez’s last entry for his honorable mention list)
I don’t think the choice to add this film was a bad one, but the fact that he did put in that movie is a bit shocking. Like what he did with Showgirls.
Oh well, now I have a new perspective of him. Comment if you have a reaction OR…add another movie critic that had a movie in his/her top 10 list that shocked you as an entry.
1. Number of 2011 films you saw and your favorite 2011 film.
2. 2011 film(s) that you strongly recommend to other people on this site
3. Favorite non-2011 film(s) that you saw in 2011.
4. Non-2011 films that you would strongly recommend to other people on this site
5. Mainstream film that deserves more attention
Bonus:
Favorite 2011 book?
Favorite non-2011 book you read this year?
2011 book you would highly recommend to others
Non-2011 book you would highly recommend.
Favorite musician/cd in 2011 (2011or non-2011 recordings)
1. 100+ movies, and Drive was the best out of all of ’em (so far)
2. Recommended most: Polytechnique
3. Blow Out
4. uh…..
5. Source Code. It feels forgotten now that more and more great movies came out this year
Negus, please…Working with great directors and making your own movies, no matter how bad they are, are irrelevant to each other. Every director or director-to-be chooses or makes his/her own scripts that he/she wants to direct, develops his/her own style, or puts out that finished product however that person damn well pleases. Make no mistake, Bartkowiak, Dickerson (with the exclusion of Juice), and Salomon make mediocre movies, but personally I don’t care if they (or any other cinematographer-turned-bad movie director) do throughout their career. One great cinematographer-turned-director, on the other hand, is Haskell Wexler, with his awesome 1969 feature Medium Cool. One of the greatest films ever made in my opinion.
Sorcerer needs a Criterion edition. Yes, I know it’s an adaptation of The Wages of Fear, but the DVD release by Universal was fucking horrendous, but it still stands out for being a great thriller. And Friedkin is a very underrated director (only beaten by De Palma as the most underrated New Hollywood director) whose works besides French Connection and The Exorcist are overlooked.
De Palma to Hitchcock. I know that it should be the other way around, but after seeing Obsession, I just had to see Vertigo. And Vertigo is unarguably the better film, of course
The Oscars this year should be killed with fire and holy water.
The nominees announced are no surprise (with the exception of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close), but the snubs are probably the most infuriating. No best supporting actor for Albert Brooks? No Dragon Tattoo for Best Picture (or Drive on a personal note)?
I’m not watching this shit
Suggestions and comments always welcome.
P.S. Seeing A Separation on the Foreign Film nominees was the only thing I liked about this shit heap.
@ari: i don’t think i ever will. not like last time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/83rd_Academy_Awards
@muleyhaven: Remind me again about the Eagles…don’t have a good memory (or is it the band?)
@ben.: I don’t like Shame , but Michael Fassbender does give a spellbinding performance of a guy we really can’t care about. Btw, looks like Fox Searchlight’s promotion for this movie didn’t pay off.
@brad s.: brownie points indeed for them.
@wpqx: Haven’t seen A Better Life, but it’s a movie by Chris Weitz (of American Pie fame with his brother, Paul). You will see Mr. Bichir this year in Oliver Stone’s Savages.
Hey, everyone…I was really angry about this year’s nominees that I didn’t even appreciate some nominations (Tree of Life, for example), so if y’all thought of me as a troll, sorry. But my feeling overall still remains unchanged. If they want my love, then they’re gonna have to dig deeper than The Help.
@muleyhaven: (Why did I forget that? Dammit!) This time, AMPAS beats The Eagles.
@the people who thought that the “best cinematography” section was good: it actually is, although on a personal note, newton thomas segel was snubbed.
@nadafingah: slant magazine almost agrees with what you’re saying
@brad erickson: them goddamn conversatives indeed.
@david grillo & santino: say what you will about tilda, but she was in a pretty messed-up movie this year. Jessica Chastain, for any movie except The Help this year, should have been given a nomination.
@joks & ari: most of bob clark’s stuff do suck (superbabies? from this guy?) but deathdream, murder by decree, and a christmas story are the best in his filmographyt (my personal pick being deathdream)
@david grillo: ever since he “copped-out” i didn’t want to see his other stuff anymore
@dust in love: um, the box? yeah. call me hipster but i like the box. southland was a piece of crap, granted.
@nightshift: kudos to you for thinking the rock is great stuff from a guy who makes exploding shit.
(spoilers herein) Let’s face it. With all that bleak nihilism combined with the battle of masculinity throughout this movie, The Grey had to have a very ambiguous ending or the tone would have shifted and all would have been lost. Even that hidden ending is no exception: The wolf is laying dead there, but Ottway is nowhere to be found.
I don’t know about you, but I thought this movie was great, and it’s only January. Looks like Mother Nature is giving us a break with movies before she kills us all.
As a huge devotee to Brian De Palma, I’m about to see a re-cut version of his 1992 film Raising Cain. The problem here is that I have not seen the theatrical version, so can you guys tell me if a lot has changed in the re-cut version?
@fellaheen: i think you’re just hatin’ on the tree of life and its aftereffects were to hate malick’s work. it’ll pass. don’t resist the lyricism of the tree of life and the thin red line and days of heaven!
Lol, I don’t think Tony Scott has been in this discussion so I’m gonna say it: True Romance, Crimson Tide and Unstoppable are his best werks. Cop II, I like. He might be the best guilty pleasure director out there right now.
Shit! Haven’t seen that much movies from ’91! Here goes, in no particular order:
1. A Brighter Summer Day (Director’s Cut would suffice)
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Dead Again
Point Break
The Rapture
Delicatessen
Barton Fink
Raise the Red Lantern
The Silence of the Lambs
Poison
And Life Goes On…
The Double Life of Veronique
JFK
City Slickers
Boyz n the Hood
High Heels
Mississippi Massala
My Own Private Idaho
Once Upon a Time in China
Slacker!
Sorcerer, Risky Business, and Near Dark (all by Tangerine Dream)
Dressed to Kill and Blow Out- Pino Donaggio
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and anything by Ennio Morricone
Transformers by Steve Jablonsky
Anything by Bernard Herrmann (Vertigo, Taxi Driver, Sisters…you name it)
Your Most Recent Criterion Purchase over 1 year ago
Slacker!!!!
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Criterion Coming Soon and Discussion Redux over 1 year ago
What about Godard’s stuff from the 70’s or 80’s? Passion seems recommendable…
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GODZILLA ON CRITERION? over 1 year ago
Godzilla is now coming your way from, out of all things, the Criterion Collection. Any thoughts?
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Criterion on iTunes over 1 year ago
Yeah, apparently looks like the power of the Collection has reached iTunes. Anything you guys bought or rented?
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Why did this movie ended up on someone's "best of 2011" list?!?!? over 1 year ago
Can someone explain this for me?
http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2011/12/slant-magazines-top-25-films-of-2011/
(Look at Ed Gonzalez’s last entry for his honorable mention list)
I don’t think the choice to add this film was a bad one, but the fact that he did put in that movie is a bit shocking. Like what he did with Showgirls.
Oh well, now I have a new perspective of him. Comment if you have a reaction OR…add another movie critic that had a movie in his/her top 10 list that shocked you as an entry.
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2011 Movie Questionnaire over 1 year ago
1. Number of 2011 films you saw and your favorite 2011 film.
2. 2011 film(s) that you strongly recommend to other people on this site
3. Favorite non-2011 film(s) that you saw in 2011.
4. Non-2011 films that you would strongly recommend to other people on this site
5. Mainstream film that deserves more attention
Bonus:
Favorite 2011 book?
Favorite non-2011 book you read this year?
2011 book you would highly recommend to others
Non-2011 book you would highly recommend.
Favorite musician/cd in 2011 (2011or non-2011 recordings)
1. 100+ movies, and Drive was the best out of all of ’em (so far)
2. Recommended most: Polytechnique
3. Blow Out
4. uh…..
5. Source Code. It feels forgotten now that more and more great movies came out this year
Bonus!:
Eh.
Eh.
Eh.
Eh.
The Drive soundtrack
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worst of the year lists, please post any critic lists you find over 1 year ago
James Berardinelli’s worst list is up:
http://www.reelviews.net/reelthoughts.php?identifier=678
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First R-Rated movie You watched as a kid over 1 year ago
@Jon: He’s not assuming. He’s asking.
Earliest one I can recall was Tobe Hooper’s Crocodile at age 6. Watched it after Recess: School’s Out!
Didn’t know it was rated R here in the U.S.
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5 Best Movies of 2011 So Far and 5 Worst over 1 year ago
My Top 5:
Drive, The Tree of Life, Polytechnique, Certified Copy, and Bellflower
And the bottom 5:
Courageous, My Week with Marilyn, Battle: Los Angeles, Abduction, and I Saw the Devil
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First R-Rated movie You watched as a kid over 1 year ago
@Charles Deckert: I’m pretty sure that the Bad Lieutenant they show in IFC is the R-rated version
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Why would great cinematographers choose to become mediocre directors? over 1 year ago
Negus, please…Working with great directors and making your own movies, no matter how bad they are, are irrelevant to each other. Every director or director-to-be chooses or makes his/her own scripts that he/she wants to direct, develops his/her own style, or puts out that finished product however that person damn well pleases. Make no mistake, Bartkowiak, Dickerson (with the exclusion of Juice), and Salomon make mediocre movies, but personally I don’t care if they (or any other cinematographer-turned-bad movie director) do throughout their career. One great cinematographer-turned-director, on the other hand, is Haskell Wexler, with his awesome 1969 feature Medium Cool. One of the greatest films ever made in my opinion.
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Criterion Coming Soon and Discussion Redux over 1 year ago
Sorcerer needs a Criterion edition. Yes, I know it’s an adaptation of The Wages of Fear, but the DVD release by Universal was fucking horrendous, but it still stands out for being a great thriller. And Friedkin is a very underrated director (only beaten by De Palma as the most underrated New Hollywood director) whose works besides French Connection and The Exorcist are overlooked.
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Who is this girl... over 1 year ago
lea seydoux
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Le Havre is gonna be Criterion-d!!!!! over 1 year ago
This is just an announcement to y-all, if you guys didn’t know
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Filmmakers who led you to other filmmakers over 1 year ago
De Palma to Hitchcock. I know that it should be the other way around, but after seeing Obsession, I just had to see Vertigo. And Vertigo is unarguably the better film, of course
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2012 Oscars Nominee List (and beyond) over 1 year ago
The Oscars this year should be killed with fire and holy water.
The nominees announced are no surprise (with the exception of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close), but the snubs are probably the most infuriating. No best supporting actor for Albert Brooks? No Dragon Tattoo for Best Picture (or Drive on a personal note)?
I’m not watching this shit
Suggestions and comments always welcome.
P.S. Seeing A Separation on the Foreign Film nominees was the only thing I liked about this shit heap.
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2012 Oscars Nominee List (and beyond) over 1 year ago
@ari: i don’t think i ever will. not like last time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/83rd_Academy_Awards
@muleyhaven: Remind me again about the Eagles…don’t have a good memory (or is it the band?)
@ben.: I don’t like Shame , but Michael Fassbender does give a spellbinding performance of a guy we really can’t care about. Btw, looks like Fox Searchlight’s promotion for this movie didn’t pay off.
@brad s.: brownie points indeed for them.
@wpqx: Haven’t seen A Better Life, but it’s a movie by Chris Weitz (of American Pie fame with his brother, Paul). You will see Mr. Bichir this year in Oliver Stone’s Savages.
Hey, everyone…I was really angry about this year’s nominees that I didn’t even appreciate some nominations (Tree of Life, for example), so if y’all thought of me as a troll, sorry. But my feeling overall still remains unchanged. If they want my love, then they’re gonna have to dig deeper than The Help.
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2012 Oscars Nominee List (and beyond) over 1 year ago
@ ari: i meant “after last time”
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2012 Oscars Nominee List (and beyond) over 1 year ago
@muleyhaven: (Why did I forget that? Dammit!) This time, AMPAS beats The Eagles.
@the people who thought that the “best cinematography” section was good: it actually is, although on a personal note, newton thomas segel was snubbed.
@nadafingah: slant magazine almost agrees with what you’re saying
@brad erickson: them goddamn conversatives indeed.
@david grillo & santino: say what you will about tilda, but she was in a pretty messed-up movie this year. Jessica Chastain, for any movie except The Help this year, should have been given a nomination.
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Great films by terrible filmmakers. over 1 year ago
Sorry, Revenge of the Sith is personally the best Star Wars movie out there. Except for Empire, all the other ones suck.
Who can agree with me on The Towering Inferno, or NARC?
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Great films by terrible filmmakers. over 1 year ago
@joks & ari: most of bob clark’s stuff do suck (superbabies? from this guy?) but deathdream, murder by decree, and a christmas story are the best in his filmographyt (my personal pick being deathdream)
@david grillo: ever since he “copped-out” i didn’t want to see his other stuff anymore
@dust in love: um, the box? yeah. call me hipster but i like the box. southland was a piece of crap, granted.
@nightshift: kudos to you for thinking the rock is great stuff from a guy who makes exploding shit.
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The Grey had a good ending...if you sat through the credits over 1 year ago
(spoilers herein) Let’s face it. With all that bleak nihilism combined with the battle of masculinity throughout this movie, The Grey had to have a very ambiguous ending or the tone would have shifted and all would have been lost. Even that hidden ending is no exception: The wolf is laying dead there, but Ottway is nowhere to be found.
I don’t know about you, but I thought this movie was great, and it’s only January. Looks like Mother Nature is giving us a break with movies before she kills us all.
Thoughts always welcome. Ciao.
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Raising Cain Re-Cut over 1 year ago
As a huge devotee to Brian De Palma, I’m about to see a re-cut version of his 1992 film Raising Cain. The problem here is that I have not seen the theatrical version, so can you guys tell me if a lot has changed in the re-cut version?
View it here: http://vimeo.com/35398338
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Raising Cain Re-Cut over 1 year ago
here’s the story: http://blogs.indiewire.com/pressplay/feature-brian-de-palmas-raising-cain
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Raising Cain Re-Cut over 1 year ago
And no one has answered my question yet…
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Raising Cain Re-Cut over 1 year ago
@Pete: Thanks! Shout-out to Ed Gonzalez too for putting this on the “links for the day” section on the house next door
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Great films by terrible filmmakers. over 1 year ago
@fellaheen: i think you’re just hatin’ on the tree of life and its aftereffects were to hate malick’s work. it’ll pass. don’t resist the lyricism of the tree of life and the thin red line and days of heaven!
Lol, I don’t think Tony Scott has been in this discussion so I’m gonna say it: True Romance, Crimson Tide and Unstoppable are his best werks. Cop II, I like. He might be the best guilty pleasure director out there right now.
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1991 Poll over 1 year ago
Shit! Haven’t seen that much movies from ’91! Here goes, in no particular order:
1. A Brighter Summer Day (Director’s Cut would suffice)
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Dead Again
Point Break
The Rapture
Delicatessen
Barton Fink
Raise the Red Lantern
The Silence of the Lambs
Poison
And Life Goes On…
The Double Life of Veronique
JFK
City Slickers
Boyz n the Hood
High Heels
Mississippi Massala
My Own Private Idaho
Once Upon a Time in China
Slacker!
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STOP THE LISTS! over 1 year ago
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
Penis.
That is all.
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Movie Sountrack Recommendations over 1 year ago
Sorcerer, Risky Business, and Near Dark (all by Tangerine Dream)
Dressed to Kill and Blow Out- Pino Donaggio
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and anything by Ennio Morricone
Transformers by Steve Jablonsky
Anything by Bernard Herrmann (Vertigo, Taxi Driver, Sisters…you name it)
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