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2009 | 2008
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The Best Films of the Decade (aka "The Naughties")
2 hours ago | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Best Films Of The Decade (aka The Naughties) From Alex & Terry
List # 1
By Alex Simon
When Terry and I initially discussed writing these lists, I had a tough time thinking back on 20 films over the past decade which I was really taken with, thinking that movies have sunk so low over the past ten years, that even choosing a dozen would be a short-order job. Thirty minutes into it, my list had nearly 60 titles on it! After much cutting, pasting, and re-cutting and pasting, here are my top 20 films (in no particular order) of the first decade of the 21st century, dubbed by many as “the naughties.” --A.S.
1. No Country for Old Men (Coen Brothers, 2007) An elegiac blend of stark beauty and full-throttle despair from two of our finest filmmakers, set in the contemporary American West. Every frame is damn near flawless, and would have been an even more »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
British Indies Are Moonstruck
6 hours ago | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Over the next few weeks, about a million tiny critics organizations will shout "Best!" The British Independent Film Awards have announced, following the Gothams and Nbr across the pond. It's well underway. It shan't stop any time soon.
British Independent Film Moon
Director Andrea Arnold, Fish Tank
Debut Director Duncan Jones, Moon
Screenplay In the Loop
British Short Love You More
Best Foreign Film Let the Right One InBig night for Duncan Jones's Moon. David Bowie's son sure built up a lot of goodwill with this first feature. That follow up is going to be tricky, though. How to live up to those expectations?
Actress Carey Mulligan, An Education
Supporting Actor John Henshaw, Looking for Eric
Most Promising Newcomer Katie Jarvis, Fish Tank
Only one of these is going on to Oscar citations for various reasons -- sometimes as simple »
- NATHANIEL R
Overture Acquires Stone with Robert De Niro and Milla Jovovich
10 hours ago | movies.about.com | See recent movies.about.com news »
Overture Films announced they've picked up the dramatic thriller Stone starring Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Frances Conroy, and Milla Jovovich. Stone was directed by John Curran (The Painted Veil) from a script by Junebug writer Angus MacLachlan, and produced by David Mimran, Jordan Schur and Holly Wiersma. The film stars De Niro as a parole officer targeted by an arsonist (Norton) out to secure his parole. Jovovich plays Norton's gorgeous wife.
Overture expands its slate of 2010 films with Stone, adding the thriller to a list of upcoming releases that already includes The Crazies (February 26, 2010) and Brooklyn's Finest (March 5, 2010). And Overture's backing Philip Seymour Hoffman's directorial debut, Jack Goes Boating, which is also aiming for a 2010 release. In addition, the studio has Let Me In, the remake of Let the Right One In, currently in production.
De Niro's latest film, Everybody's Fine, opened in theaters December 4th to lukewarm reviews. »
Two wins for Moon at British Independent Film Awards
11 hours ago | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
Sci-fi movie Moon scooped two prizes at last night's BIFAs - the British Independent Film Awards.
It won the Best British Independent Film Award and its director Duncan Jones was named Best Debut Filmmaker.
Jones - the son of David Bowie - is pictured above (on the right) on set with Moon's star Sam Rockwell.
Among the other accolades, Swedish vampire movie Let The Right One In won Best Foreign Film. Best Director went to Fish Tank's Andrea Arnold, Bronson's Tom Hardy won Best Actor and An Education's Carey Mulligan was named Best Actress. Fish Tank's lead Katie Jarvis was Most Promising Newcomer.
Moon also featured in the nominations in several other categories: Duncan Jones was nominated for Best Director; Sam Rockwell was up for Best Actor; and the original score by Clint Mansell and the production design by Tony Noble were both nominated in the Best Technical Achievement category. »
- David Bentley
Best of the Decade #17: Let The Right One In (2008)
16 hours ago | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
From the outside, it'd be easy to judge this as just another vampire/horror movie, or worse, a foreign one. To do that though, would be to dismiss one the best finds of the decade and to overlook a remarkable film. For its originality and elegance, Let the Right One In makes it into our Best of the Decade. This film takes the vampire genre to places that The Twilight Saga could only dream of. For starters: having the main characters be a 12-year old boy and a very old vampire stuck in the body of a 12-year old girl. Director Tomas Alfredson shoots this film like a quiet drama; the music is low, the colour scheme is mostly white and blue with a touch of red, and the child actors are remarkably subdued. When the scenes of violence occur, it is quite terrifying and almost unexpected. Let the Right One In »
- Greg
'Moon' Glowing at 2009 British Independent Film Awards
6 December 2009 9:57 PM, PST | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »
The gala night of the 12th British Independent Film Awards has been held on Sunday, December 6 at The Brewery, Chiswell Street in London. During the award ceremony, "Moon" and "Fish Tank" were shining brighter than other movies as they took home two kudos each.
Nominated in six categories, the sci-fi thriller starring Sam Rockwell was crowned as the Best British Independent Film. The Sony Pictures Classics' movie that follows a man, who lives with a computer at a manufacturing base on the Moon, also aided its director Duncan Jones to receive Douglas Hickox Award or the Best Debut Director kudo.
Meanwhile, "Fish Tank" which dominated the nomination with eight nods managed to nail two of the coveted awards given away. The drama film has brought recognition to its helmer Andrea Arnold who received the Best Director prize. The movie also earned Katie Jarvis the Most Promising Newcomer award.
Other »
- AceShowbiz.com
Duncan Jones’ Moon Wins Best Picture and Best Debut Director at the British Independent Film Awards
6 December 2009 9:43 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
One of the best sci-fi films of the past several years, Duncan Jones’ Moon took home both Best Picture and Best Debut Director at this year’s British Independent Film Awards. The was also received nominations for Sam Rockwell for Best Actor, Duncan for Best Director (a category which included both debut and veteran directors), Nathan Parker for Best Screenplay, and two nominations in the Best Technical Achievement category with Clint Mansell getting a nod for Original Score and Tony Noble for Production Design.
Any victory for Moon is an important victory because while it received large critical acclaim, its June release may have left it slightly adrift in the minds of critics and societies compiling their Top 10 of 2009 lists. I’ll admit that it is disappointing that Rockwell didn’t win, but he did lose to Tom Hardy’s universally loved performance in Bronson so it wasn’t like »
- Matt Goldberg
British Independent Film Awards winners
6 December 2009 2:47 PM, PST | AwardsDaily.com | See recent AwardsDaily news »
Winners via Alternative Film Guide. Thanks to Dark Lord for spotting this event: Best British Independent Film An Education Fish Tank In the Loop * Moon Nowhere Boy Best Foreign Film »
- Ryan Adams
David Bowie's son Duncan Jones wins two BIFAs for directorial debut
6 December 2009 2:27 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Moon scoops best film and Jones best debut director at British independent film awards
As a child, he was called Zowie Bowie. These days it's the far more sensible Duncan Jones, and tonight he emerged triumphantly from the very large shadow of his father when he picked up two prizes at the British independent film awards.
Forty years after the first Moon landing and 40 years after his dad, David Bowie, released Space Oddity, Jones's retro sci-fi film Moon was named best picture at a ceremony in central London while Jones himself won best debut director.
His film stars Sam Rockwell as the solitary caretaker of a helium-3 mining plant on the Moon with his only companion, it seems, a talking computer system called Gerty, voiced by Kevin Spacey.
Jones, 38, has always been determined to make a successful career by himself. He went to the London film school and honed his »
- Mark Brown
British Independent Film Awards 2009
6 December 2009 2:15 PM, PST | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »
2009 British Independent Film Awards 2009 British Independent Film Award nominations: Oct. 26, 2009 2009 British Independent Film Award winners: The Brewery in London on Dec. 6, 2009 ("*" denotes the winner in each category) Sam Rockwell in Moon Best British Independent Film An Education Fish Tank In the Loop * Moon Nowhere Boy Best Foreign Film Il Divo The Hurt Locker * Let The Right One In Sin Nombre The Wrestler Best Documentary The Age of Stupid The End of The Line * Mugabe and The White African Sons of Cuba Sounds Like Teen Spirit Best Director * Andrea Arnold – Fish Tank Armando Iannucci – In the Loop Duncan Jones – Moon [...] »
- Anna Robinson
British Independent Film Awards: Moon Wins Best Film
6 December 2009 1:44 PM, PST | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
Getting the British Independent Film Awards. Full list at IndieWIRE. Update: Best film: Moon. Best actor: Tom Hardy (Bronson) Best actress: Carey Mulligan (An Education) Best director: Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank) Technical award best cinematography: Bright Star Best supporting actress: Anne-Marie Duff (Nowhere Boy) Supporting Actor: John Henshaw (Looking for Eric) not Michael Fassbender for Fish Tank) Best debut director: Duncan Jones (Moon). Best newcomer: Katie Jarvis (Fish Tank) Best foreign film: Let the Right One In Best documentary: Mugabe and the White African The jury gave a critics’ prize to The London Daily Mail’s Baz Bamingboye, who happens to be a favorite of mine, so congrats Baz. »
DVD Review: Excellent ‘Thirst’ Deserves Better Treatment
3 December 2009 5:27 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Easily one of the most interesting and original films of 2009, “Thirst” deserves at least the basic Blu-Ray treatment being given nearly every theatrically released film in the current market or, failing that, at least a special edition DVD. Instead, Focus/Universal has gone the baffling route of releasing a bare bones disc featuring only the film. The movie itself is great enough to warrant a look, but that’s in spite of its home release.
DVD Rating: 4.0/5.0
From the director of “Oldboy” and “Lady Vengeance,” Park Chan-wook’s “Thirst” is an inventive and daring examination of desire, faith, sacrifice, and sin. With “Thirst,” Park cements his status as one of the most interesting filmmakers of the ’00s. Forget “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” or even “Let the Right One In,” “Thirst” is a truly unique entry in the genre, a use of the vamp mythology to comment on all »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Sight & Sound 10 Best Films of 2009
2 December 2009 5:12 PM, PST | AwardsDaily.com | See recent AwardsDaily news »
1. A Prophet – Jacques Audiard 2. The Hurt Locker – Kathryn Bigelow - 35 Shots of Rum – Claire Denis 4. The White Ribbon – Michael Haneke 5. Let the Right One In – Tomas Alfredson 6. Up – Pete Docter »
- Ryan Adams
Viral Marketing For The Crazies Has Begun
30 November 2009 6:05 PM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Breck Eisner's remake of George A Romero's The Crazies is further proof that Hollywood has completely run out of ways to scare us. If they aren't importing our scares (The Ring, The Grudge, Let The Right One In), they bring back movies that scared the last generation and give them a modern spin (hence all the cell phones with no signal). But just in case you thought this unnecessary film was going to pass by without making a lot of noise, you can guess again: it's viral marketing time! First found by MovieViral, the film already has two websites and a Twitter account set up for the film, centering around a chemical company dumping in a place called Ogden Marsh. The first is a company website for Dakon/Pendrill Chemicals, which has three locations, but the only one we care about is the one in Ogden Marsh, Iowa - »
2009 Efa Noms: This Year's Favorite (A Prophet) vs. Last Year's Fave (Slumdog)
30 November 2009 1:32 AM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
With the film eligibility dates covering portions of two years, the 2009 European Film Awards finds itself in an awkward mode of having a clear favorites from circa 2008 (Slumdog Millionaire, Let the Right One In) go up against cream of the crop from Cannes 2009 (A Prophet, The White Ribbon and Fish Tank). - With the film eligibility dates covering portions of two years, the 2009 European Film Awards finds itself in an awkward mode of having a clear favorites from circa 2008 (Slumdog Millionaire, Let the Right One In) go up against cream of the crop from Cannes 2009 (A Prophet, The White Ribbon and Fish Tank). Jacques Audiard's A Prophet leads all nominations with a total of six with Best European Film, Director, Screenwriter, Actor (Tahar Rahim), Cinematography and Sound Design. Slumdog comes in 2nd place with five nominations while the Palme d'or winning The White Ribbon and Broken Embraces are tied with 4 each. »
- Ioncinema.com Staff
Twilight's New Moon and the rise of the vampire film craze
29 November 2009 12:33 PM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
No One can fail to have noticed the recent surge of interest in vampires, like a throbbing vein in popular culture.
On TV, we have True Blood, The Vampire Diaries and Being Human, while undead bloodsuckers have also invaded cinema this year in the form of Let The Right One In (released last year in the USA), Blood: The Last Vampire, Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant and The Twilight Saga: New Moon.
So why are vampires in vogue at the moment? New Moon director Chris Weitz has given his views on the phenomenon.
Weitz said: "The only thing I can think of is that it is a very adaptable metaphor.
"In the 80s the vampire myth would have been about Aids; in the 90s, drug addiction. Nowadays, maybe it is about restraint and desire but I cannot explain why there are any number of series of books, movies and stuff about vampires. »
- David Bentley
Thirst DVD Review
29 November 2009 7:57 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
It’s said if you stare at something for more than four seconds, other people start staring at it too. This is especially unfortunate for vampires. They survive on remaining unnoticed. In Thirst, famed Korean filmmaker Chan-wook Park (Oldboy) bites into the vampire myth by asking “How would a vampire have to survive in society today?” This isn’t a new question–it’s actually a very popular question of late. But Park has a decidedly darker take than Twilight; darker even than True Blood or Let the Right One In. His aesthetic is very much his. It’s almost as if Park said, “You think you know the vampire myth? You have no idea…” Find out what I mean after the jump.
Thirst tells the story of Sang-hyeon (Kang-ho Song, also the star of Joon-ho Bong’s The Host), a priest who commits to a medical experiment that aims »
- Michael Sullivan
Film & Literature: Father and Son
25 November 2009 2:30 AM, PST | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »
What would you do if the apocalypse hit? Where would you go? Would you carry the fire? In John Hillcoat's The Road, his brutal and beautiful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece of a novel, we watch as the Father (Viggo Mortensen) and the Boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee, who will be playing 'Owen' in Let Me In, the remake of Swedish vampire classic Let the Right One In) fight to survive in a post-apocalyptic world where everything is dead. McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning book was Oprah-feted upon its release and became instantly canonical (it is easily one of the best books of the waning decade), and the inevitable film adaptation of such an emotional, moving, and existential experience was high profile, to say the least. Hillcoat, an Australian director best known for his third film, the Western The Proposition (adapted from a script by longtime collaborator, multitalented rocker Nick Cave), was »
After 'New Moon,' What's Next For Vampires?
20 November 2009 11:00 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
As so many of the other posts here on MTV Movies Blog today already did today, I'm first going to remind you that "New Moon" is now in theaters. See, it's kind of a big deal. And as you might imagine, we have vampires on the brain as a result.
Now even the most rabid Twilighter will tell you that Stephenie Meyer's series isn't for everyone. The phenomenon has definitely grown beyond the core audience of teenage girls, but there are still those who prefer to see their blood-suckers swimming in entrails and terrorizing and unknowing public. Well we've got you covered. Really it's Hollywood that has you covered; I'm just here to give you an update. In the coming year and beyond, there are quite a number of vampire movies coming out, catering to a variety of audiences. Two more "Twilight" movies sure, but what else? Hit the »
- Adam Rosenberg
Comparing 'Twilight' And 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' With MTV's Gore Girls
20 November 2009 9:00 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Welcome to Gore Girls! MTV contributor Terri Schwartz doesn't know crap about the horror genre, and she's volunteered to be our Movies Blog guinea pig. She has a good guide too. Fellow contributor Jenni Miller is a bonafide horror enthusiast, and she's willing to walk Terri through her formative experiences with blood, guts, monsters and maniacs. Together, this dynamic duo are The Gore Girls!!! Good luck Terri... you're definitely going to need it.
Today brings another special Friday edition of MTV's Gore Girls. With "New Moon" freshly arrived in theaters, we decided to try something a little bit different. Instead of Jenni and Terri discussing a single movie, they watched "Bram Stoker's Dracula" -- a romance-focused vampire story, albeit with quite a bit more horror than Stephenie Meyer's works -- and discussed it in relation to "Twilight." For those who haven't seen it, "Dracula" is a pretty straightforward adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 book. »
- MTV Movies Team
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