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2009 | 2005
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The Best Films of 2009
22 December 2009 11:57 AM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
Matt Singer: We entered 2009 with a new president who promised to bring our country hope. But looking back at the year in film, I don't see a lot of hope; I see a lot of grief and despair. Oh sure, the box office charts were dominated by your now-typical assortment of franchises, spin-offs, reboots and sequels -- a major cause of grief and despair for some -- but you also had enough apocalypse movies to fill a book on Biblical prophecy. Even some of the obligatory superheroes got dark: the world (spoiler alert!) doesn't end in "Watchmen," but it comes awfully close.
There was an air of doom in certain quarters of the film industry this year too, as the effects of the bad economy rippled through everything from festival attendance to the shriveling ranks of working film critics. Examining my own list of the year's best, I find that »
- Alison Willmore
The 10 most underrated movies of the decade
22 December 2009 2:24 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
As the noughties tick down, let's shine a belated spotlight on the films that never got their due at release in the past 10 years
With the mood of reflection common to all year-ends magnified by this being the close of a decade, the list-loving world of film is awash with rundowns of the finest moments of not just 2009 but the entire noughties. In this very spot, you'll have already seen the Guardian's crack team reveal the first 90 titles of their golden hundred, with the final 10 being unveiled over the days ahead. But in the spirit of fair play, I thought it might also be worth drafting a top 10 of a slightly different nature – not the decade's best per se, but it's most underrated.
In short, what with this being the season of goodwill and so on, it might be apt to briefly pick out in the spotlight those films that »
- Danny Leigh
The movies set for Oscar glory in 2010
21 December 2009 2:55 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Hollywood's red carpet gets wider next year, with twice as many best picture nominees. From Harlem to Iraq, Disney fantasy to star-studded musical, we look at the main contenders and anticipate a year of true diversity
When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that the best picture category at the 2010 Oscars would be widened from five to 10 nominees, a leading American producer, here for the recent London film festival, told me bullishly: "You'd have to really screw up to not get nominated this time."
He shall remain nameless, mainly because, as awards season got under way last week with the announcement of the Golden Globe nominees, his film appears to be one of the most overlooked. Somewhere along the line, he just might have screwed up. But has the return to the pre-1944 era (when 10 or 12 films were often included) really sparked a race for films not »
- Jason Solomons
100 best films of the noughties: which movies should be in the top 10?
21 December 2009 1:13 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Guardian film team's pick of the top 10 films of the decade will be unspooled here over the next two weeks, but can you guess them by perusing Nos 11-100?
Last week the Guardian film team gathered in the office canteen for a nostalgia tour of sorts. For two, nearly three hours, we journeyed through the past 10 years, sifting the good films from the bad and the great films from the good to assemble our top 100 films from the last decade.
Inevitably this trip also took us back to our own relative youths. We all (Peter Bradshaw, Catherine Shoard, Andrew Pulver, me) looked a lot different back then.
The discussion was heated. There was horse-trading and ballots and respectful disagreements, the occasional flounce and a few cherished casualties that failed to make the cut. But now we think we have it: the Guardian's 100 best films of the noughties. And yes, »
- Xan Brooks
Decade in Review: 2005 Top Ten
19 December 2009 4:00 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
2009 is almost over and so many magazines and websites have already offered up their best of the year And decade that I'm afraid y'all will get sick of the retrospectives before The Film Experience has chimed on. Remember: the tortoise wins! 2005's top ten list (in its original form) follows. New comments in red.
Public Favorites (Box Office): Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, War of the Worlds, King Kong, Wedding Crashers, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Batman Begins, Madagascar and Mr & Mrs Smith
Oscar Favorites: Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Crash, Good Night and Good Luck and Munich
My Vote For UnderAppreciated: In Her Shoes, Happy Endings and The White Countess
Top Ten Runners Up (11-15): The Squid and the Whale, Match Point, The New World, Junebug and The Beat That My Heart Skipped. »
- NATHANIEL R
The White Ribbon Review
13 December 2009 3:48 PM, PST | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Michael Haneke is celebrated as one of the most confrontational currently active film makers in Europe. His films Hidden, The Piano Teacher and Funny Games all actively try and engage their audiences with Haneke’s polemic ideologies, his films rather violently placing the director’s world view on the screen. Funny Games even had the gall to break the fourth wall to hammer home its points, literally pointing a finger at the audience. The White Ribbon, however, is a different kettle of fish. Rather than directly telling the audience what to think, Haneke allows for several ambiguities to arise and, as such, the film is a more rewarding experience. This does not mean that Haneke has abandoned all his trademark styles though. The White Ribbon, his Palme D’Or and European Film Award winning picture, is as sinister, as misanthropic and as ideologically driven as anything he has committed to celluloid thus far. »
- Kieron
Review of the decade: Peter Bradshaw's noughties round-up
7 December 2009 3:01 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Hollywood struggled to respond to the war on terror, documentaries went through a golden age, and Michael Haneke was the noughties' moral conscience
If it is possible to whimper at the volume of a bang, then that is how this decade is ending on the big screen: with two high-profile, high-budget movies about the end of the world: Roland Emmerich's cheerfully silly 2012, and John Hillcoat's cheerlessly serious The Road, which arrive with a good deal of commentary to the effect that these movies typify the zeitgeist of the decade.
The noughties – that jokey word coined in the carefree 90s – are seen as damaged, injured, traumatised. The decade looks cracked from top to bottom by a sensational act of terrorism; by a reaction that achieved neither political palliative nor military success; by the confrontation between first-world prosperity and developing-world poverty; by the coming environmental catastrophe that threatens to engulf both; and finally, »
- Peter Bradshaw
Michael Haneke: 'The World Would Be Much Poorer Without Art'
2 December 2009 9:45 AM, PST | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
Adored, reviled, emulated and microanalyzed, Michael Haneke is everything an auteur should be. The Munich-born, Viennese-raised filmmaker won his first Palme d'Or with this year's The White Ribbon (opening in the U.S., finally, on Dec. 30). Something of a departure for the man preoccupied with the intersection of technology and senseless violence in movies like Benny's Video, Caché and both sadistic versions of his Funny Games, Ribbon sheds the director's favored, blueish palette for monochromatic black-and-white, and dials the clocks back to 1913, where a series of bizarre mishaps and cruel, gruesome pranks befall a German agrarian town. As the braided narratives draw to a close and the Great War begins, we've borne witness to numerous brutalities and acts of violence. But what surprises are the frequent, deftly staged moments that come in between -- displays of what some might consider sheer sentimentality: a child grappling with the concept of death »
Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon: Disturbing, mesmerising and wonderful
30 November 2009 7:46 AM, PST | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon is the latest film from a ferociously gifted and no less provocative filmmaker at the very height of his considerable powers. Troubling, beautiful, unerringly calm yet intensely confrontational it is a film of such towering authority and icy detachment that it might go down as one of the most commanding by any director from the last decade. I have certainly seen nothing like it for intensity. Filmed in pin sharp monochrome, a feature that only accentuates the sense of aggressive objectivity, it explores themes that students of Haneke (it feels impossible to be a mere “fan” of the Austrian director as his films demand not simply passive enjoyment but deep exploration, to be repeatedly turned over, assimilated, absorbed in a search for meaning) will be familiar: guilt, violence, repression, defiance. And like not only his most widely released film Hidden (2004) but so many of his creations, »
- Nick Clarke
A season of Haneke at the BFI
25 November 2009 5:48 AM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
With so much praise being piled on Michael Haneke's latest meticulous work, The White Ribbon, it's a great time to reassess some of his back catalogue - and in what better way than on a big screen at the BFI. London's Southbank complex is hosting a season of the Austrian's work from today until 17th December, screening Funny Games Us, Hidden, The Seventh Continent, Time of the Wolf, and of course, The White Ribbon. Haneke's fastidious compositions and lengthy takes demand theatrical viewing to fully absorb, so it's a rare and rather special opportunity for fans and sceptics alike.
You can buy tickets here.
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In the village of the damned
14 November 2009 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Michael Haneke's Palme D'or winner offers a spellbinding tale of bigotry and brutality in a pre-Great War rural German community, says Philip French
Numerous novelists, dramatists and film-makers have been attracted to the period immediately preceding the outbreak of the First World War to give their work a touch of nostalgia, irony or historical resonance.
Jb Priestley, whose life had been transformed by his experiences on the Western Front, was among the earliest with his 1934 play Eden End, set in 1912 Yorkshire. Isabel Colegate's novel The Shooting Party (filmed by Alan Bridges in 1984) takes place at a grand country house in 1913. István Szabó's movie Colonel Redl cuts straight from its eponymous antihero's death to the Austro-Hungarian army going into battle, though it was as early as 1916 that the Austrian wit Karl Kraus launched one of the last century's greatest cliches by having a newsboy enter a Viennese cafe shouting: "Extra! »
- Philip French
Haneke: I may collaborate with Houellebecq
13 November 2009 5:32 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Austrian director of The White Ribbon reveals that he and the controversial French author have discussed working together
Both are savage pessimists. Both have redefined the limits of their respective art forms. Both have expressed their admiration for the other. But it's only now that the possibility of their working together has been confirmed.
In London to promote his new film, The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke revealed to guardian.co.uk/film that he and the controversial author Michel Houellebecq had discussed mutual projects.
"I've read every book of Houlellebecq's and wondered myself whether we could perhaps work together," he said. "We have considered it and talked about it, but he's got so much to do and I've got so much to do, so we haven't got very far yet."
Houellebecq has long been interested in transferring his work to the cinema. His novel, Atomised, was adapted for the »
- Catherine Shoard
The Auteurs Daily: Film Comment (and Updates)
7 November 2009 7:17 AM, PST | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
Selections from the November/December 2009 issue of Film Comment have been posted along with a few online exclusives, among them, the full uncut version of Alexander Horwath's interview with Michael Haneke: "It took several major awards at Cannes, for The Piano Teacher (01), Caché (05), and now The White Ribbon, for the Austrian public to accept Haneke, at age 67, as one of 'their' pre-eminent artists. He'll never turn into a king of hearts, nor - as he explains in the following interview - did he ever remotely strive for that role in the cultural card game. But in the private hunchbacked world of his garden, he appears as a much more relaxed, funny, and pleasure-embracing human being than his public persona would ever seem to admit." »
Holiday Preview: Anywhere But a Movie Theater
4 November 2009 11:14 AM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
More Holiday Preview: [Theatrical Calendar]
[Repertory Calendar] [Anywhere But a Movie Theater]
On Demand
IFC Films (with whom, full disclosure, we obviously share a parent company) will be delivering new films all holiday season to homes across the country through their Festival Direct and Sundance Selects labels. These include the cross-cultural romantic dramedy "I'll Come Running" (Nov. 4), Josiane Balasko's farce "A French Gigolo" (Nov. 6), the Inuit tribal drama "Necessities of Life" (Nov. 11), the Brit crime thriller "Adulthood" (Nov. 18), the Indian love story "Return to Rajapur" (Nov. 25), the Christopher Masterson-Bijou Phillips celibacy satire "Made for Each Other" (Dec. 2), "Harry Potter" helmer David Yates' gritty two-part drama "Sex Traffic" (Dec. 2 and 9), the Korean comedy "Night and Day" (Dec. 23) and "The Ghost" (Dec. 30).
Meanwhile, in the newly launched Sundance Selects series, there's a pair of harrowing documentaries VOD premieres: Kief Davidson's coming-of-age boxing doc "Kassim the Dream" (Nov. 27) and the unvarnished biopic "Nick Nolte: No Exit" (Dec. »
- Stephen Saito
The Oscar Race Begins on November 6th
1 November 2009 3:54 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
That's just 5 days away. That's the (un)official start date. I'm declaring it. It used to be the Nbr's announcement of their top ten list but with more and more awards groups clamoring to yell "first!", "first!" has lost virtually all its meaning. Or rather, it's meaning has changed. It now means "We're desperate for attention!" ...though maybe it always did. So, Nov. 6th is the day...
...since that's when a lot of folks will get their first look at Precious ["for you consideration..." in virtually every category save Best Actor and Supporting Actor. No, Lenny Kravitz's male nurse doesn't count]. That's when that particularly buzzy contenduh goes from being a movie with deafening hype and buzz (huzz? bype? hypzz?) to being a real thing, a movie audiences can react to in a less abstract, more honest and less controllable-by-campaign-and-hype way. As it should be.
[tangent] I always find it strange when people call me an elitist (I assume because I generally prefer unravelling female protagonists to superpowered men in costumes?) because I'm actually populist at heart. I demand that cinema of all types readily available to the masses! The Oscars are frustrating in this way because the type of films that matter to the Academy -- and to drama nuts like you (I assume if you're reading Tfe) -- are ever more skittish about being seen, hiding in tiny little theaters in only the biggest cities, as if too many curious eyeballs would ruin their strenuous beauty.
If it were up to me you'd have to open by Christmas at the absolute latest in the top six to eight markets (something like that -- thus making you an actual release in the year in which you're asking for statues and top ten lists) instead of just Los Angeles by the 31st for a one week run on one screen. (I fail to see how such tiny in-name-only "releases" within a calendar year are any different in practice than festival showings which do not make you eligible). [/tangent] »
- NATHANIEL R
tMF Perspectives: Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon and his polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema
26 October 2009 1:46 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
If you're going to ask me (once again) who I considered to be one of the most controversial filmmakers today, then I would name Michael Haneke (right after Lars von Trier, of course). While von Trier's movies can be overwhelming at times, Haneke's can be very daunting and just like subjecting one self to torture. If von Trier loves to portray America without touching American soil, Haneke loves to teach his viewers a dose of their own medicine - patronizing American escapist movies is like committing a crime, there will be punishment sooner or later.
- - -
- - - But how to begin? Perhaps a look at The White Ribbon, his latest would be a good way to start. Instead of a chronological set of events, we start from the most recent.
More about The White Ribbon, Haneke's previous movie Funny Games and some insights into the Austrian filmmaker after the jump! »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
tMF Perspectives: Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon and his polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema
26 October 2009 1:46 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
If you're going to ask me (once again) who I considered to be one of the most controversial filmmakers today, then I would name Michael Haneke (right after Lars von Trier, of course). While von Trier's movies can be overwhelming at times, Haneke's can be very daunting and just like subjecting one self to torture. If von Trier loves to portray America without touching American soil, Haneke loves to teach his viewers a dose of their own medicine - patronizing American escapist movies is like committing a crime, there will be punishment sooner or later.
- - -
- - - But how to begin? Perhaps a look at The White Ribbon, his latest would be a good way to start. Instead of a chronological set of events, we start from the most recent.
More about The White Ribbon, Haneke's previous movie Funny Games and some insights into the Austrian filmmaker after the jump! »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
tMF Perspectives: Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon and his polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema
26 October 2009 1:46 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
If you're going to ask me (once again) who I considered to be one of the most controversial filmmakers today, then I would name Michael Haneke (right after Lars von Trier, of course). While von Trier's movies can be overwhelming at times, Haneke's can be very daunting and just like subjecting one self to torture. If von Trier loves to portray America without touching American soil, Haneke loves to teach his viewers a dose of their own medicine - patronizing American escapist movies is like committing a crime, there will be punishment sooner or later.
- - -
- - - But how to begin? Perhaps a look at The White Ribbon, his latest would be a good way to start. Instead of a chronological set of events, we start from the most recent.
More about The White Ribbon, Haneke's previous movie Funny Games and some insights into the Austrian filmmaker after the jump! »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
tMF Perspectives: Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon and his polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema
26 October 2009 1:46 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
If you're going to ask me (once again) who I considered to be one of the most controversial filmmakers today, then I would name Michael Haneke (right after Lars von Trier, of course). While von Trier's movies can be overwhelming at times, Haneke's can be very daunting and just like subjecting one self to torture. If von Trier loves to portray America without touching American soil, Haneke loves to teach his viewers a dose of their own medicine - patronizing American escapist movies is like committing a crime, there will be punishment sooner or later.
- - -
- - - But how to begin? Perhaps a look at The White Ribbon, his latest would be a good way to start. Instead of a chronological set of events, we start from the most recent.
More about The White Ribbon, Haneke's previous movie Funny Games and some insights into the Austrian filmmaker after the jump! »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
tMF Perspectives: Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon and his polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema
26 October 2009 1:46 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
If you're going to ask me (once again) who I considered to be one of the most controversial filmmakers today, then I would name Michael Haneke (right after Lars von Trier, of course). While von Trier's movies can be overwhelming at times, Haneke's can be very daunting and just like subjecting one self to torture. If von Trier loves to portray America without touching American soil, Haneke loves to teach his viewers a dose of their own medicine - patronizing American escapist movies is like committing a crime, there will be punishment sooner or later.
- - -
- - - But how to begin? Perhaps a look at The White Ribbon, his latest would be a good way to start. Instead of a chronological set of events, we start from the most recent.
More about The White Ribbon, Haneke's previous movie Funny Games and some insights into the Austrian filmmaker after the jump! »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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