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 Iron Lady
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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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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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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Academy Cuts Best Makeup Field to Seven: ‘Iron Lady’ in, ‘J. Edgar’ Out
The Academy has recently been hard at work shaving the field of contenders over in the Best Visual Effects category — you’ll recall that the crop was initially cut to 15, and then, just last week, snipped even further to … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Nobbs, Anonymous, Armie Hammer, Awards, Best Makeup, Clint Eastwood, Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life, Green Lantern, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Hugo, J. Edgar, Meryl Streep, Peter Sarsgaard, Phyllida Lloyd, Roland Emmerich, The Artist, The Iron Lady
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BAFTA Longlist Reveals Adoration for ‘Iron Lady,’ ‘Marilyn,’ and ‘Tinker, Tailor’
As is their yearly custom, BAFTA members have settled on the first step of their strangely convoluted voting process — the longlist, which functions to narrow each category to 15 select contenders. (Note: 285 films were entered, and considered, this … Continue reading
‘The Artist,’ ‘Moneyball,’ ‘Tree of Life’ Earn Multiple Citations from NYFCC
As irksome as the New York Film Critics Circle’s desire to shoot the first bullet of this year’s awards season often was — they didn’t even bother to see Stephen Daldry’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close prior to the vote … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Sorkin, Albert Brooks, Awards, Brad Pitt, Drive, Emmanuel Lubezki, J.C. Chandor, Jessica Chastain, Lou Lumenick, Margin Call, Meryl Streep, Michel Hazanavicius, Moneyball, New York Film Critics Circle, Steven Zaillian, Take Shelter, The Artist, The Help, The Iron Lady, The Tree of Life
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Poster for Phyllida Lloyd’s ‘The Iron Lady’
It seems almost inevitable that Meryl Streep’s turn as Margaret Thatcher will land her yet another Oscar nomination. I have to admit that I was kind of bugged by her nod for Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia, which, as a … Continue reading
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Tagged Abi Morgan, Another Year, Jim Broadbent, Julie and Julia, Meryl Streep, Nora Ephron, Phyllida Lloyd, Posters, Shame, The Iron Lady
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