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tMF Top 50: Best Movies of the 2000s (40-31)

28 December 2009 11:27 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

We continue our look at the Top 50 best films of the decade.  In case you missed the previous list, see #50-41 here.

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40. United 93 (2006)

It takes guts to make a movie about the four terrorists that took over United Flight 93 and plagued us Americans with a day we won’t ever forget. No doubt that Paul Greengrass would have to climb an uphill battle to get this movie the way he wanted it to look but he does the film justice, more importantly the victims on this flight get supreme recognition. He makes it impossible for us to take our eyes off of the screen. The camera style throws us unto the plane of the teary eyed, enraged passengers whose emotions are unexplainable. Its heart-wrenching seeing the passengers come as one and do what they have to do, risking their lives to save »

- rlpolo04@aol.com (David DiMichele)

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tMF Top 50: Best Movies of the 2000s (40-31)

28 December 2009 11:27 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

We continue our look at the Top 50 best films of the decade.  In case you missed the previous list, see #50-41 here.

Click through for the next installment.

40. United 93 (2006)

It takes guts to make a movie about the four terrorists that took over United Flight 93 and plagued us Americans with a day we won’t ever forget. No doubt that Paul Greengrass would have to climb an uphill battle to get this movie the way he wanted it to look but he does the film justice, more importantly the victims on this flight get supreme recognition. He makes it impossible for us to take our eyes off of the screen. The camera style throws us unto the plane of the teary eyed, enraged passengers whose emotions are unexplainable. Its heart-wrenching seeing the passengers come as one and do what they have to do, risking their lives to save »

- rlpolo04@aol.com (David DiMichele)

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tMF Top 50: Best Movies of the 2000s (40-31)

28 December 2009 11:27 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

We continue our look at the Top 50 best films of the decade.  In case you missed the previous list, see #50-41 here.

Click through for the next installment.

40. United 93 (2006)

It takes guts to make a movie about the four terrorists that took over United Flight 93 and plagued us Americans with a day we won’t ever forget. No doubt that Paul Greengrass would have to climb an uphill battle to get this movie the way he wanted it to look but he does the film justice, more importantly the victims on this flight get supreme recognition. He makes it impossible for us to take our eyes off of the screen. The camera style throws us unto the plane of the teary eyed, enraged passengers whose emotions are unexplainable. Its heart-wrenching seeing the passengers come as one and do what they have to do, risking their lives to save »

- rlpolo04@aol.com (David DiMichele)

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tMF Top 50: Best Movies of the 2000s (40-31)

28 December 2009 11:27 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

We continue our look at the Top 50 best films of the decade.  In case you missed the previous list, see #50-41 here.

Click through for the next installment.

40. United 93 (2006)

It takes guts to make a movie about the four terrorists that took over United Flight 93 and plagued us Americans with a day we won’t ever forget. No doubt that Paul Greengrass would have to climb an uphill battle to get this movie the way he wanted it to look but he does the film justice, more importantly the victims on this flight get supreme recognition. He makes it impossible for us to take our eyes off of the screen. The camera style throws us unto the plane of the teary eyed, enraged passengers whose emotions are unexplainable. Its heart-wrenching seeing the passengers come as one and do what they have to do, risking their lives to save »

- rlpolo04@aol.com (David DiMichele)

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tMF Top 50: Best Movies of the 2000s (40-31)

28 December 2009 11:27 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

We continue our look at the Top 50 best films of the decade.  In case you missed the previous list, see #50-41 here.

Click through for the next installment.

40. United 93 (2006)

It takes guts to make a movie about the four terrorists that took over United Flight 93 and plagued us Americans with a day we won’t ever forget. No doubt that Paul Greengrass would have to climb an uphill battle to get this movie the way he wanted it to look but he does the film justice, more importantly the victims on this flight get supreme recognition. He makes it impossible for us to take our eyes off of the screen. The camera style throws us unto the plane of the teary eyed, enraged passengers whose emotions are unexplainable. Its heart-wrenching seeing the passengers come as one and do what they have to do, risking their lives to save »

- rlpolo04@aol.com (David DiMichele)

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Sherlock Holmes | Film review

26 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Everyone has their favourite Sherlock Holmes impersonator, as well as their favourite Holmes story, novel and film. For me the best Holmes is the one played on stage in 1974 by John Wood. But I admire Jeremy Brett's on TV and retain immense affection for Basil Rathbone, the first Sherlock I saw, partly because he looks like the Sidney Paget illustrations, and partly because he has the right combination of intelligence, wit, poise and world-weariness. I later came to wish that Rathbone had a better companion than Nigel Bruce's dithering, dim-witted Dr Watson. My favourite story is a toss-up between "The Red-Headed League" (which Woody Allen drew on for Small Time Crooks) and "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton" (I once had the privilege of showing its Hampstead setting to blind Conan Doyle fan Jorge Luis Borges), and my favourite novel is The Sign of Four. My favourite adapted »

- Philip French

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Movie Alert! Sherlock Holmes Festival On TCM December 25-26

19 December 2009 10:30 AM, PST | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »

Major faux pas: the marketing geniuses promoting A Study in Terror created a campy ad campaign designed to capitalize on Batmania. In fact, the film is a sober and very effectively made Sherlock Holmes thriller.

How do you react to the fact that Turner Classic Movies (North America) will be running back-to-back Sherlock Holmes films from 8:00 Pm on Friday December 25 through much of the following day? Elementary, my dear movie fan - you become a couch potato. TCM will be including all the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce Holmes features, the Hammer version of The Hound of the Baskervilles with Cushing and Lee,  as well as Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes and - wait for it!- the 1966 film A Study in Terror that pits Holmes and Watson against Jack the Ripper. This worthwhile effort has never been released on DVD.  »

- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)

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Christmas and new year TV films

18 December 2009 5:30 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Not sure what to watch? We can help with our comprehensive guide to the best films on TV this Christmas and new year

Choose a date

Saturday 19 December | Sunday 20 December | Monday 21 December | Tuesday 22 December | Wednesday 23 December |Christmas Eve | Christmas Day | Boxing Day | Sunday 27 December | Monday 28 December | Tuesday 29 December | Wednesday 30 December | New Year's Eve | New Year's Day

Saturday 19 December

Yes Man (Peyton Reed, 2008)

10am, 8pm, Sky Movies Premiere

Remember Jim Carrey in Liar, Liar, where he forces himself to tell the truth for 24 hours? Well, here Jim Carrey forces himself to answer yes to any request, for a year. Which is upping the ante somewhat, but doesn't make it a better film. This is a return to the manic, gurning, not-very-funny Carrey, as if The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine etc hadn't happened. Just say no.

The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz, 2007)

11.40am, 8pm, Sky Movies Family

What with Harry Potter, Narnia, Lemony Snicket and all, »

- Paul Howlett

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Christmas and new year TV films

18 December 2009 5:30 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

Not sure what to watch? We can help with our comprehensive guide to the best films on TV this Christmas and new year

Choose a date

Saturday 19 December | Sunday 20 December | Monday 21 December | Tuesday 22 December | Wednesday 23 December |Christmas Eve | Christmas Day | Boxing Day | Sunday 27 December | Monday 28 December | Tuesday 29 December | Wednesday 30 December | New Year's Eve | New Year's Day

Saturday 19 December

Yes Man (Peyton Reed, 2008)

10am, 8pm, Sky Movies Premiere

Remember Jim Carrey in Liar, Liar, where he forces himself to tell the truth for 24 hours? Well, here Jim Carrey forces himself to answer yes to any request, for a year. Which is upping the ante somewhat, but doesn't make it a better film. This is a return to the manic, gurning, not-very-funny Carrey, as if The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine etc hadn't happened. Just say no.

The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz, 2007)

11.40am, 8pm, Sky Movies Family

What with Harry Potter, Narnia, Lemony Snicket and all, »

- Paul Howlett

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The Notable Films of 2010: Part Three

17 December 2009 11:42 PM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »

Dinner for Schmucks

Opens: July 23rd 2010

Cast: Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Zach Galifianakis, Bruce Greenwood, David Walliams

Director: Jay Roach

Summary: A renowned publisher encourages his friends to invite the most pathetic guests possible for their weekly dinner party. Just as they find the most pathetic man yet, the host is injured and ends up trapped with the man all night long.

Analysis: A remake of director Francis Veber's 1998 César award-winning "Le Diner des cons", 'Schmucks' is one of the highest profile comedies of next year with one of the strongest casts for the genre in recent memory. It also marks the return of "Austin Powers" and "Meet the Parents" helmer Jay Roach who has produced several films in recent years but hasn't directed since 2004's "Meet the Fockers".

The question now lies not in the performers or director but the material itself and whether a Gallic comedy can »

- Garth Franklin

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The Alamo Guide for December 10th!

10 December 2009 3:29 PM, PST | OriginalAlamo.com | See recent AlamoDrafthouseCinema news »

The Alamo Guide

for December 10th, 2009 If you’re at the S. Lamar theater this weekend, and you see a bunch of groggy ass, smelly, crazy-looking people wandering out of the theater around noon on Sunday, don’t worry. They won’t hurt you, they will have just sat through a full 24 hours plus of movies and they’ll be in desperate need of sleep. I’ll be one of them. It’ll be awesomely exhausting! Aside from that, if you got tickets already (if not, toooo bad), you can see the folks from Broken Lizard with their newest film The Slammin’ Salmon, but the most important thing that you should do is Go See Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans!!! Yes, the name is long, and the trailer makes it look kind of silly, but the hype over at Alamo Headquarters is ridiculous and the few people in »

- caitlin

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Thom Fitzgerald’s Beefcake at UCLA

9 December 2009 11:14 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »

Outfest will present Thom Fitzgerald’s Beefcake (1999), a part-documentary, part-drama set in the world of male homoerotic films and "physique" magazines of the ’50s, on Saturday, December 12, at 7:30pm at UCLA’s Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood. According to the Outfest release, Beefcake "chronicles the rise of male body-worship as a business enterprise and a fact of life. The film tells the story of Bob Mizer, a photographer and filmmaker whose coy portraits of scantly-clad and well-developed young men appeared in homoerotic films and ‘physique’ magazines in the 1950s. The sexy, sometimes kooky tale is interspersed with testimonials by Mizer contemporaries ranging from Jack La Lanne to Joe Dallesandro, who participated in similar projects." According [...] »

- Andre Soares

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Old Ass Movies: Some Like It Hot

6 December 2009 5:59 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Every Sunday, Film School Rejects presents a film that was made before you were born and tells you why you should like it. This week, Old Ass Movies presents: Some Like It Hot (1959) If you've been paying attention, this is two Billy Wilder films in a row for Old Ass Movies. It's also the second Wilder film in a row to feature Jack Lemmon. I had high praise for The Apartment last week, so this week I wanted to take a look at an early incarnation of that relationship. Where Billy Wilder put Lemmon in a dress. Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) are two musicians who see a mob murder and decide to go into hiding in an all-female band headed for sunny Florida. The gorgeous Sugar Kane Kowalcyk (Marilyn Monroe) is part of the troupe, which might just be two good reasons to stay in hiding. Jerry ends up playing the ultimate wing man »

- Dr. Cole Abaius

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Movie Reviews: “Up In The Air”

5 December 2009 6:45 PM, PST | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »

Not a few critics are calling Up in the Air a film for our times -- while at the same time comparing it with the classic romantic comedies of the ‘30s and ‘40s by Billy Wilder, Leo McCarey, Garson Kanin, Frank Capra, Ernst Lubitch and Preston Sturges. They’re also predicting Oscar nominations for its star, George Clooney, and its writer-director, Jason Reitman. And several have designated it best picture of the year. (Indeed it is being released on the same day that the National Board of Review, the group that traditionally opens the awards season, named it the year’s best.) In the movie, George Clooney plays a “transition specialist” whose job it is to fire people for corporation executives who don’t have the stomach for such business themselves. It marks “the high-water mark in George Clooney’s career,” says Peter Howell in the Toronto Star. At the crosstown Toronto Globe and Mail, Rick Groen comments, “Clooney is made for this role.” Ann Hornaday in the Washington Post judges Clooney to be at the peak of his career. “He operates not just as an actor but also as a finely machined screen object,” she writes. But Reitman garners even more rapturous reviews. Joe Morgenstern in the Wall Street Journal says that Up in the Air, Reitman’s third feature (after Juno and Thank You for Smoking), shows him to be “a filmmaker of rare distinction.” Claudia Puig in USA Today calls him “a bona fide filmmaking talent ... a modern-day Frank Capra.” Several critics call attention to the fact that Reitman is the 32-year-old son of producer-director Ivan Reitman, whose credits include Animal House, Meatballs, Ghostbusters, Twins, and Junior. In his review of the movie, Roger Ebert notes that the younger Reitman has said that one of the questions he is most often asked in interviews is, “How does your father feel about your success?” Comments Ebert “Bursting with pride, is my guess.” »

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Christmas TV movies have lost their special glitter | Jason Solomons

5 December 2009 4:09 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

A festive treat has become tired repeats or cartoons. Jason Solomons suggests it should now be a season for Fellini or Renoir

Forget about Christmas movies with snow and tinsel and grumpy fathers learning lessons. Those have their place, and no doubt we'll have our fill of them, good and bad, over the coming month, from Elf to Scrooged, from The Muppet Christmas Carol to Miracle on 34th Street.

What worries me is the lack of new classics. Growing up, my favourite Christmas movies were never the ones actually about Christmas. Rather, it was the season of Billy Wilder and Fred Astaire, a time for The Great Escape and The Towering Inferno, for The Poseidon Adventure and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. In short, Christmas was when you learned about film, its rich history and capacity to thrill and unite. 

It was when I watched films with my dad »

- Jason Solomons

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Interview: Tony Curtis is the Original Fantastic Mr. Fox

5 December 2009 7:22 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – Tony Curtis, who rolled into town to introduce his classic “Some Like it Hot” – December 5th and 6th at the Hollywood Palms in Naperville, Il – has a sharp and voracious intelligence, plus the adventurous life story to share.

In his new book, “The Making of Some Like it Hot,” Curtis relates the incredible Hollywood tale about how two big stars, he and Jack Lemmon, dressed up as women and collided with the incomparable Marilyn Monroe and director Billy Wilder to create a true American cinema masterpiece.

HollywoodChicago’s Patrick McDonald and photog Joe Arce encountered Tony Curtis in the lobby of the new Trump Hotel. While under the Christmas tree, Curtis regaled us with the account of his first ever trip to Chicago, appearing in a play at the Yiddish Theater on Ogden and Kedzie.

Known as Bernie Schwartz in those days, Curtis told us that he had to »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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Just announced! The Alamo Ritz New Year’s Eve Bash: The Apartment!

3 December 2009 12:55 PM, PST | OriginalAlamo.com | See recent AlamoDrafthouseCinema news »

Our second annual New Year’s celebration of classic cinema, cocktails and cuisine at The Ritz!!

2008’s screening of After The Thin Man was a true extravaganza, bringing together an incredible drinking/dining experience with one of the greatest film’s of Hollywood’s golden era. This year, we’re stepping it up with the flat-out greatest New Year’s film in the world: Billy Wilder’s 1960 masterpiece The Apartment, a brilliantly written, fast-paced, heartbreakingly hilarious adventure of a poor schlub (a young, bumbling Jack Lemmon) who just can’t steer things right to fall into the good graces of the most wonderful woman in town (a young, unbelievably charming Shirley MacLaine). In his way are an innumerable number of comic obstacles, including the great Fred MacMurray and Ray Walston as self-serving high-rollers content to kick dirt in the face of anyone who crosses them.

It’s a gorgeously shot, »

- zack

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Penelope Strikes One Pose After Another For Nine in Interview

3 December 2009 10:00 AM, PST | Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news »

Penelope Cruz went with red lips and lots of diamonds for the January cover of Interview. She posed for an accompanying sexy spread and talked about Nine with her costar in the film, Marion Cotillard. There's all sorts of speculation about Penelope's personal life and possible engagement to Javier Bardem, but the ladies kept things strictly focused on business - Penelope shared about what compelled her to act, her inspirations, and what it was like on the female-centered set of Nine. Here's more: On what inspired her to act: "That question actually brings me to the reason why I decided to become an actress, which is my constant curiosity about the endless mysteries of human behavior. Because we are dealing with the beauty and complexity of human confusion, no? And we are always trying to get answers." On when she knew she wanted to act: "I think since I was around four years old. »

- PopSugar

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Top Ten Overrated Films

3 December 2009 9:58 AM, PST | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »

Overrated films are an interesting breed. They are essentially the type that everybody goes crazy for until consideration, time, thought and retrospect force us to reassess the situation. They are, by and large, the product of Hollywood: though by no means exclusive. However, Hollywood films are the most hyped; the most seen; the most heard. They are garnered with awards and flattery and the cycle begins again. Is it genius of deception or commerce?

Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane is often labelled as “the greatest film ever made”. It will not appear in this list. It is not an overrated film. Even now, in the sixty-plus years since its release, Welles’ masterpiece remains inimitable. Searching for something to dislike in it is pointless. Yes, critics go ga-ga for Orson, and so they should. He was a true maverick.

If one looks at the history of the Best Film award at the Oscars, »

- Martyn Conterio

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Up in the Air Review: Book Your Ticket Now

2 December 2009 11:21 AM, PST | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »

Jason Reitman is on a roll. His first film, 2005's Thank You For Smoking, is a smart, satirical adaptation of Christopher Buckley's novel about a spokesperson for the tobacco industry (Aaron Eckhart). Two years later, Reitman directed Juno, the sweet little indie comedy that could and did win over critics and the public alike while pulling in a huge $150 million in ticket sales. Now, the young filmmaker takes another huge leap forward with the new comedy/drama Up In the Air starring George Clooney, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick.

Based on Walter Kim's novel, Up In the Air centers around Ryan Bingham (Clooney), a corporate downsizing expert that flies around the country to lay people off from various companies. Living - and loving - a solitary life out of a suitcase, Ryan is on the verge of completing a personal goal: reaching the airline milestone of flying ten million miles. »

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