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: Woody Allen
My Experience with Peter Jackson’s ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’
Addendum: A few people have brought up the legitimate question of why I went to see The Hobbit in the first place. The answer is that it was a professional-obligation thing: I record a weekly podcast, The Film Stage Show, … Continue reading
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Tagged After Earth, Amour, Arbitrage, Argo, Escape from Planet Earth, Flight, Ian Holm, Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Joseph Kosinski, Joss Whedon, Keep the Lights On, Lincoln, Lost in Translation, M. Night Shyamalan, Magic Mike, Margaret, Martin Freeman, Oblivion, Peter Jackson, Promised Land, Raymond Carver, Stanley Kubrick, The Avengers, The Croods, The Grey, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Lord of the Rings, The Lovely Bones, Up in the Air, Weekend, Woody Allen, Zero Dark Thirty
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Oscar Predictions: Taking Stock of What We’ve Seen
With August approaching, and the summer movie season beginning to wind down a bit, it’s the time of year when speculation about the upcoming awards season begins to mount an increasing momentum — a momentum that’s no doubt been put … Continue reading
Posted in Awards
Tagged Batman Begins, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin, Bernie, Brave, Brian De Palma, Christopher Nolan, Derek Cianfrance, Jack Black, John Madden, Magic Mike, Matthew McConaughey, Midnight in Paris, Moonrise Kingdom, Passion, Reid Carolin, Richard Linklater, Steven Soderbergh, Terrence Malick, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, The Place Beyond the Pines, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Tree of Life, To the Wonder, Wes Anderson, Woody Allen
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Movie Review: ‘To Rome with Love’
Director: Woody Allen | Writer: Woody Allen | Cast: Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig, Ellen Page | Rating: R | Runtime: 111 minutes | Year (U.S. release): 2012 | Following something … Continue reading
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Tagged 2 stars, 2012, Alec Baldwin, Alessandra Mastronardi, Alessandro Tiberian, Alison Pill, Antonio Albanese, Ellen Page, Fabio Armiliato, Flavio Parenti, Greta Gerwig, Inception, Jesse Eisenberg, Judy Davis, Life is Beautiful, Midnight in Paris, Owen Wilson, Penelope Cruz, Pierluigi Marchionne, Reviews, Roberto Benigni, Scoop, T, To Rome with Love, Woody Allen
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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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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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DGA Surprises, Nominates Allen, Fincher
Well, at least Tate Taylor didn’t get in. I’ll take David Fincher — even so-so Fincher, like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — over the soap-brand flavoring of The Help any day of the week. That said, there were … Continue reading
Oscar Predictions: ‘J. Edgar’ Opens to Intriguingly Cryptic Response
Like the film or not — and, despite some obviously confused work on the page from Dustin Lance Black, I do — I think it’s hard not to be at least somewhat interested in the mixed response that Clint Eastwood’s … Continue reading
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Tagged A Dangerous Method, Alexander Payne, Changeling, Charlize Theron, Clint Eastwood, David Cronenberg, Diablo Cody, Dustin Lance Black, Hereafter, Hugo, Invictus, J. Edgar, Jason Reitman, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Michel Hazanavicius, Midnight in Paris, My Week with Marilyn, Olivia Colman, Oscar Predictions, Oscars, Paddy Considine, Patton Oswalt, Simon Curtis, Steven Spielberg, The Artist, The Descendants, Tyrannosaur, War Horse, Woody Allen, Young Adult
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Oscar Predictions: Diving in Before the Festivals
Back in early March, I put together a preliminary set of Oscar predictions for the impending 2011-2012 awards season. Most of the films that made their way into my charts have still yet to be released theatrically, but trailers have … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Payne, Awards, Bennett Miller, Clint Eastwood, David Nicholls, J. Edgar, Jason Reitman, Lone Scherfig, Midnight in Paris, Moneyball, One Day, Oscar Predictions, Oscars, Steven Spielberg, Terrence Malick, The Descendants, The Tree of Life, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Tomas Alfredson, War Horse, Woody Allen, Young Adult
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First-Half Contenders: Woody Allen’s ‘Midnight in Paris’
In terms of the number of legitimate Oscar contenders from the first half of the year, 2011 looks to be tracking pretty darn close to 2010. (Winter’s Bone and The Kids Are All Right were the only big-time contenders from … Continue reading
Trailer for Woody Allen’s ‘Midnight in Paris’
Woody Allen’s latest, Midnight in Paris, for which the writer-director received another exceptional ensemble, will open up this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Today, Yahoo has given us the first taste of the film, which, after its festival debut, will begin … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni, Kathy Bates, Marion Cotillard, Michael Sheen, Midnight in Paris, Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Trailers, Woody Allen
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