27 December, 2012
Still the best animated film of this or any other decade.
2000 - 2009
Total Films I’ve Seen: 1296
Films That Make the Top 5 in Any Category: 48
Best Film Not to Make the Top 5 in Any Category: No Country for Old Men
Film of the Decade: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Worst Film of the Decade: Captivity
Worst Best Picture Nominee of the Decade: The Blind Side
Worst Film of the Decade Made by a Top 100 Director: What Planet Are You From (more…)
15 May, 2012
A shot that kind of sums up the greatness and problems of Chicago (2002).
The 75th annual Academy Awards, for the film year 2002. The nominations were announced on February 11, 2003 and the awards were held on March 23, 2003.
Best Picture: Chicago
Most Surprising Omission: Adaptation
Best Eligible Film Not Nominated: Spirited Away
Best Eligible English-Language Film Not Nominated: Minority Report
Rank (out of 84) Among Best Picture Years: #1 (more…)
8 May, 2012
The talent from down under shines in The Two Towers: David Wenham, Karl Urban and, of course, Miranda Otto.
My Top 20:
1 June, 2008
Kirk Douglas in Kubrick's Paths of Glory, one of the best films from 1957
A little note before my article: I have a new article appearing on CinCity2000.com on Tuesday. It’s a response to a New York Times article about the lack of decent women’s roles in summer movies.
The Myth of 1939
We are so fond of anniversaries. Just look at everything we celebrated last year. The 80th anniversary of the Academy Awards. The 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love and Sgt Pepper’s. The 30th anniversary of Star Wars and the Summer of Sam. But did we forget the best anniversary from last year? Isn’t the big number supposed to be 50 (“not to fifty” Christopher Guest shouts as that classic turned 20)? Shouldn’t we have been looking back to 1957? For movies, after all, it might have been the peak of artistic creation, both on the national and international front. (more…)
