TOP 20 FILMS OF 2012
[#1-10]
- 1. Oslo, August 31st [Review]
- 2. The Grey [Review]
- 3. The Master [Review]
- 4. Lincoln [Review]
- 5. Amour [Review]
- 6. The Turin Horse [Review]
- 7. Elena [Review]
- 8. Zero Dark Thirty [Review]
- 9. Tabu [Review]
- 10. Beasts of the Southern Wild [Review]
[#11-20]
- 11. The Snowtown Murders
- 12. Flight [Review]
- 13. Magic Mike [Review]
- 14. Holy Motors
- 15. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia [Review]
- 16. Rust and Bone [Review]
- 17. The Color Wheel
- 18. Looper [Review]
- 19. On the Road [Review]
- 20. The Loneliest Planet [Review]
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Tag Archives: The Artist
Movie Review: ‘Tabu’
Director: Miguel Gomes | Writers: Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo | Cast: Isabel Cardoso, Carloto Cotta, Teresa Madruga, Ana Moreira, Henrique Espírito Santo, Laura Soveral | Rating: NR | Runtime: 118 minutes | Year (U.S. release): 2012 | Miguel Gomes’s Tabu, … Continue reading
Oscar Recap: ‘Artist,’ ‘Hugo’ Take Five Statues Apiece
That Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter took home their second consecutive Best Film Editing Oscar — last year for The Social Network, this year for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, another hyper-kinetic David Fincher film — was an out-of-nowhere … Continue reading
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Tagged A Separation, Alexander Payne, Angus Wall, Asghar Farhadi, Awards, Beginners, Billy Crystal, Brian Grazer, Christopher Plummer, Emmanuel Lubezki, Harvey Weinstein, Hugo, Kirk Baxter, Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, Midnight in Paris, Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol, Moneyball, Oscars, Robert Richardson, The Artist, The Descendants, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Help, The Iron Lady, The Master, The Social Network, Viola Davis, Woody Allen
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Oscar Predictions: Wrapping it Up
Sunday will bring us the 84th Academy Awards, and with it, the end of an awards season that began with an intriguing open-endedness — “surely that black-and-white silent thing from France won’t hang on forever,” seemed to be the status … Continue reading
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Tagged Awards, Billy Crystal, Moneyball, Oscar Predictions, Oscars, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Artist, The Tree of Life
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Hazanavicius Wins DGA, ‘The Help’ Dominates SAG Awards
Over the past few days, the Directors Guild of America (DGA) and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) have both voiced their opinion on the year in film, yet each organization has added so little to the conversation that they hardly … Continue reading
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Tagged Awards, Beginners, Christopher Plummer, Directors Guild of America, George Clooney, James Marsh, Jean Dujardin, Michel Hazanavicius, Nick Nolte, Octavia Spencer, Project Nim, Screen Actors Guild, Shailene Woodley, The Artist, The Help, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Viola Davis, Warrior
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PGA Awards ‘Artist,’ ‘Beats,’ ‘Tintin’
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced their three winners today and, in the biggest category of them all, The Artist banked another key victory en route to its all-but-sealed Best Picture Oscar. I still think there’s the slimmest chance … Continue reading
Costume Designers Guild Nominates ‘The Artist,’ ‘Jane Eyre,’ ‘Melacholia’
The Costume Designers Guild has also announced their 2011 nominees today, and this is another example of a guild that divides their recognition into three clusters: Contemporary, Period, and Fantasy. Considering the craft field in question, the reasons behind those … Continue reading
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Tagged Awards, Cary Fukunaga, Costume Designers Guild, Jane Eyre, Melancholia, Red Riding Hood, The Artist
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BAFTA Nominations Announced: ‘The Artist,’ ‘Tinker, Tailor’ Make a Splash
The official nominees for this year’s BAFTAs have been announced, and, as expected, they mostly align with the chapter-endorsed selections that were revealed in the longlist a couple of weeks ago. It’s a gladdening sight to see that they followed … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Brooks, Awards, BAFTAs, Bridesmaids, Drive, Eddie Marsan, Jim Broadbent, Judi Dench, Lynne Ramsay, Melissa McCarthy, My Week with Marilyn, Nicolas Winding Refn, The Artist, The Iron Lady, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Tomas Alfredson, Tyrannosaur, We Need to Talk About Kevin
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‘Moneyball,’ ‘The Descendants’ Receive ACE Eddie Award Nominations
The nominees for the 62nd Annual ACE Eddie Awards have been revealed, and I’m delighted to report that Christopher Tellefsen edged his way into the field for his rich cutting of Bennett Miller’s Moneyball. His decisions not only accurately reflect … Continue reading
Recapping the Largely Uneventful Golden Globes: A Toned-Down Gervais Still the Highlight
When Ricky Gervais is on auto-pilot mode and he’s still the most watchable element of the Golden Globes, then you know it was a rocky broadcast. (“Rocky” meaning, well, boring.) Alright, maybe he wasn’t the absolute best part. Sidney Poitier’s … Continue reading
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Tagged A Separation, Angelina Jolie, Awards, Cecil B. DeMille, George Clooney, Golden Globes, Helen Mirren, Hugo, In the Land of Blood and Honey, Jean Dujardin, John Hughes, Madonna, Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, Michel Hazanavicius, Midnight in Paris, Morgan Freeman, Rango, Ricky Gervais, Sidney Poitier, The Adventures of Tintin, The Artist, The Descendants, The Help, The Iron Lady, Tilda Swinton, Viola Davis, W.E., We Need to Talk About Kevin, Woody Allen
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Hoyte van Hoytema’s ‘Tinker, Tailor’ Lensing Among the Crop of ASC Nominees
The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) announced their five feature-film nominees this morning, and the rewarded crop marked another bullet to the chest for War Horse, as Janusz Kaminski’s photography of Steven Spielberg’s critically divisive stage adaptation was merely the … Continue reading