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The Decade List: Les chansons d'amour (2007)
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The Decade List: Les chansons d'amour (2007)
— reassurance.blogspot.com — Les chansons d’amour [ Love Songs ] – dir. Christophe Honoré Approaching the films of Christophe Honoré... is a lot like walking along a tightrope. The odds always seem to be against you making it to the finish line without a gust of wind (or, in Honoré’s case, of bullshit) blowing you off. ... (more) The Decade List: Les chansons d'amour (2007)

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Millennium Mambo, Part 5
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Millennium Mambo, Part 5
— reassurance.blogspot.com — Glenn Kenny amends his own "70 Greatest Films of the Decade" by adding another 30, because, as... he says, "my best-of-the-decade list of 70 slighted (inevitably, I insist) at least two dozen other worthy works, if not more, I hereby consider my readers' suggestions, and my own memory lapses, and ... (more) Millennium Mambo, Part 5

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More Pansexual, Vaguely Sci-fi/Apocalyptic Teen Angst from Gregg Araki
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More Pansexual, Vaguely Sci-fi/Apocalyptic Teen Angst from Gregg Araki
— reassurance.blogspot.com — I've concerned myself so much with the past ten years that I forgot 2010 is upon us,... and I haven't even looked into which of my favorite filmmakers have stuff in the can... but browsing French distribution company Wild Bunch's website I uncovered that, lo and behold, after three years, Gregg ... (more) More Pansexual, Vaguely Sci-fi/Apocalyptic Teen Angst ...

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...aaaaaand it starts again.
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...aaaaaand it starts again.
— reassurance.blogspot.com — The National Board of Review tossed out their annual film awards this afternoon. Almost always the first... to do so, the NBR awards aren't typically the most respectable of the end-of-the-year critics' prizes (remember when they named Quills the best picture of 2000?), but since they've been ... (more) ...aaaaaand it starts again.

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The Decade List: Bugcrush (2006)
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The Decade List: Bugcrush (2006)
— reassurance.blogspot.com — Bugcrush – dir. Carter Smith The eerie, disturbing short Bugcrush may have lead writer/director Carter Smith to... bigger things by directing Scott B. Smith’s adaptation of The Ruins (they both fall under the category of “nature horror”), but the latter couldn’t begin to compare to the dread, ... (more) The Decade List: Bugcrush (2006)

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The Decade List: The Heart of the World (2000)
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The Decade List: The Heart of the World (2000)
— reassurance.blogspot.com — The Heart of the World – dir. Guy Maddin The Heart of the World might just be... the greatest thing Guy Maddin has ever done, which doesn’t speak poorly on any of his other work as it’s just that wonderful. In quick succession, we meet two brothers, a mortician (Caelum Vatnsdal) and an actor ... (more) The Decade List: The Heart of the World (2000)

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The Decade List: Cindy: The Doll Is Mine (2005)
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The Decade List: Cindy: The Doll Is Mine (2005)
— reassurance.blogspot.com — Cindy: The Doll Is Mine – dir. Bertrand Bonello Musician-turned-filmmaker Bertrand Bonello crafted something extraordinary with his... short Cindy: The Doll Is Mine , an ode to three of my favorite things: Asia Argento, Blonde Redhead and, especially, Cindy Sherman. As Sherman, Argento plays ... (more) The Decade List: Cindy: The Doll Is Mine (2005)

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The Decade List: Wasp (2003)
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The Decade List: Wasp (2003)
— reassurance.blogspot.com — Wasp – dir. Andrea Arnold [I’m going to try to highlight some of the excellent shorts of... the ‘00s today and tomorrow, but they hardly represent the best of the world of short subject filmmaking, as nearly all the examples I have are from filmmakers better known for the features. This is a ... (more) The Decade List: Wasp (2003)

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The Decade List: The Wayward Cloud (2005)
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The Decade List: The Wayward Cloud (2005)
— reassurance.blogspot.com — The Wayward Cloud – dir. Tsai Ming-liang I don’t know if that whole Tsai Ming-liang vs. Hou... Hsiao-hsien argument is still a relevant discussion among cinephiles, and I hope it’s not because I’ve never really been able to pick a side on that delicate issue if we’re taking their whole ... (more) The Decade List: The Wayward Cloud (2005)

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Oh, the Independent Spirit Award Nominations...
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Oh, the Independent Spirit Award Nominations...
— reassurance.blogspot.com — The nominations for the 2010 Independent Spirit Awards were announced this morning, with few surprises. Really, I... have little to say about them aside from being puzzled, but not surprised, by seeing Lee Daniels among the Best Director nominees. A lack of love for both Humpday and Zooey ... (more) Oh, the Independent Spirit Award Nominations...

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The Decade List: 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile (2007)
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The Decade List: 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile (2007)
— reassurance.blogspot.com — 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile [ 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days ] –... dir. Cristian Mungiu Though no one will in the Academy would ever name names, it’s pretty clear to most people who pay attention that the snubbing of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days when the list of foreign films was narrowed down ... (more) The Decade List: 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile (2007)

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T Minus 20 Days for The Decade List
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T Minus 20 Days for The Decade List
— reassurance.blogspot.com — Like all projects I've embarked upon, the results seldom live up to the ambition, and as I... look at the calendar, December has arrived... meaning I need to start wrapping up The Decade List which I've been working on for the better part of the year. Officially, I've set 20 December as the day ... (more) T Minus 20 Days for The Decade List

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Millennium Mambo 4: The Onion A.V. Club's 20 Performances of the Decade
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Millennium Mambo 4: The Onion A.V. Club's 20 Performances of the Decade
— reassurance.blogspot.com — Few will dispute that Daniel Day-Lewis' turn in Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood is the... performance of the decade; even if you can think of a better one, could you really be upset to find him at the top of such a poll? The Onion A.V. Club polled their staff and came up with 19 more:  ... (more) Millennium Mambo 4: The Onion A.V. Club's 20 ...

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My favorite time of year: John Waters' Top 10 of 2009
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My favorite time of year: John Waters' Top 10 of 2009
— reassurance.blogspot.com — Not only does the end of each year bring me to want to relive my favorite Christmas... movie (sorry Arnaud Desplechin, Bruce Willis), but it also marks the time when John Waters provides his Top 10 films of the year for Artforum. Last year his #1 was a tie between Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina ... (more) My favorite time of year: John Waters' Top 10 of 2009

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The Decade List: Tony Manero (2008)
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The Decade List: Tony Manero (2008)
— reassurance.blogspot.com — Tony Manero – d. Pablo Larrain [I wrote about this earlier this summer, so here's a slightly... edited version of that.] Like Taxi Driver ’s Travis Bickle and Man Bites Dog ’s “Ben,” Pablo Larrain's Tony Manero offers a new addition to the league of cinema's most fascinatingly maladaptive ... (more) The Decade List: Tony Manero (2008)

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Nicholas Ray's Final Film to Be Restored; Plus Award Updates
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Nicholas Ray's Final Film to Be Restored; Plus Award Updates
— reassurance.blogspot.com — Via Variety , Nicholas Ray's final (solo-directed, feature) film We Can't Go Home Again , a little-seen... "experimental" film he made with his wife Susan and a group of his film students at the time, will undergo a $500,000 restoration funded by the Nicholas Ray Foundation with the Venice Film ... (more) Nicholas Ray's Final Film to Be Restored; Plus Award Updates

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The Decade List: La mujer sin cabeza (2008)
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The Decade List: La mujer sin cabeza (2008)
— reassurance.blogspot.com — La mujer sin cabeza [ The Headless Woman ] – dir. Lucrecia Martel Of all of the... decade’s notable directorial debuts, no other director found their footing as succinctly and skillfully as Lucrecia Martel, who managed to craft one of the striking masterpieces latter part of the ‘00s with her ... (more) The Decade List: La mujer sin cabeza (2008)

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Humpin' Around
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Humpin' Around
— reassurance.blogspot.com — Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire - d. Lee Daniels - 2009 - USA -... Lionsgate There's so little time left in the year for me to spend a whole lot of time writing about films that I don't like, but I need to flush my feelings for Lee Daniels' Precious out in some form. When my friend ... (more) Humpin' Around

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Millennium Mambo, Part 3
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Millennium Mambo, Part 3
— reassurance.blogspot.com — More on the Best of the Decade list round-up from Mike D'Angelo and the Skandies , which... was actually posted earlier this month (and which I thought I had already mentioned, but... I guess not) and from Glenn Kenny . D'Angelo and the Skandies listed 20 films and 20 performances, with Lars von ... (more) Millennium Mambo, Part 3

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Millennium Mambo, Part 2-ish
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Millennium Mambo, Part 2-ish
— reassurance.blogspot.com — Two more big lists have been published asserting the finest films of the decade. The haughtier of... the two came from The Toronto International Film Festival Cinematheque , which surveyed a group of "film curators, historians, and festival programmers" and named, in a surprise move, Apichatpong ... (more) Millennium Mambo, Part 2-ish

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