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City Of God & Eternal Sunshine Top Magazine's Best Of The Decade

30 November 2009 5:36 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »

City Of God and Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind have been declared the best movies of the past decade in leading U.S. music and culture magazine Paste.

Fernando Meirelles' critically-acclaimed City of God topped the magazine's critics list ahead of Amelie and Almost Famous, while Jim Carrey's bizarre 2004 film Eternal Sunshine beat The Royal Tenenbaums and Amelie in the Readers' Poll.

City of Gold finished ninth in the Readers' Poll, while Eternal Sunshine landed fifth among the critics' picks. »

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'Paste' Presents Its Top Films of the Decade

17 November 2009 1:56 AM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

I'll hand it to Paste, which has a bigger reputation as a music magazine, on the occasion of its top ten movies of the decade list. Actually, the list runs to 50, which is probably way too long, especially for a collection of films that has as many expected choices as esoteric ones.

But the good news is I don't know too many people anywhere who wouldn't have at least one of this top five in their own top five. Two foreign films (the revolutionary City of God and the delectable Amélie), join the giant blockbuster trilogy (The Lord of the Rings), the sentimental favorite (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), and the classic you probably forgot to include on your short list because you weren't sure it came out in this decade (Almost Famous). That's a no-miss top five.

I'd probably change two or three of them myself, but when »

- Colin Boyd

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James May's Toy Stories | John Sergeant On the Tourist Trail | Horizon: Why Do We Talk? | True Stories: Dancing With the Devil | Watch this

9 November 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

James May's Toy Stories | John Sergeant On the Tourist Trail | Horizon: Why Do We Talk? | True Stories: Dancing With the Devil

James May's Toy Stories

8pm, BBC2

This really is marvellous: funny, educational, weirdly inspiring and pleasingly whimsical. James May's wilfully quixotic premise is that today's toys are less fun than those available to children of earlier generations. Tonight May wanders wide-eyed through the history and heritage of Meccano (or, as he says of an early kit, "everything that was great about Britain in a big green box"). To demonstrate the enduring potency of the (now French-owned) toy, May goes to its birthplace – Liverpool – and builds a bridge out of it.

John Sergeant On the Tourist Trail

8pm, ITV1

John Sergeant's short-lived career as a tour guide started as a student when he showed batches of foreign tourists around Oxford to eke a living. In this new three-part series, »

- Andrew Mueller, David Stubbs, Ali Catterall

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Birthday Suits: Nov 9th

9 November 2009 7:35 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Today's Birthdays 11/09

1869 Marie Dressler is awesome. She gave one of the most aggressive Best Actress winning performances evah. If you haven't seen Min & Bill (1933), you must. You must, you must, you must.

1883 Edna May Oliver feisty character actress

1886 Ed Wynn Uncle Albert from Mary Poppins. He loves to laugh... long and loud and clear. Audiences were always ready to laugh along with him

1922 Dorothy Dandridge first black woman to be nominated for Best Actress at the Oscars (Carmen Jones) and what a neat coincidence that she was portrayed by the first black actress to eventually win the Best Actress Oscar (Halle Berry) in the bio Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

1948 Bille August Danish director of The Best Intentions and Pelle the Conqueror fame

1955 Fernando Meirelles director of declining films: City of God, The Constant Gardner, Blindness. I'm not trying to be mean. But... um... do you have faith he'll pull out of it? »

- NATHANIEL R

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A-z Movie Reviews – C’s

4 November 2009 5:00 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »

To continue my review of my epic journey to watch all my films from A-z, this is the Third part.

For those that don’t know I am watching all 700+ Dvd/Bluray films from A-z which has so far taken me 2+ years to get to the end of G’s!

I thought I should retrospectively review each letter and give my top 5 films from each alpha block and maybe bring your attention to some films you may not have seen, films you’ve not seen in ages or films you should give another try.

Another letter and another bunch of classics I should own and a selection of ones I’m glad to say I don’t own.

A few to mention are Catwoman, Cannonball Run, Cape Fear, Clash of the titans, Cool running’s, City lights, Chinatown, City of God, Cheerleader Ninjas, Cool as Ice, City on Fire and Casablanca. »

- Gary Phillips

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What is the 21st Century?: Going Places with Yu Lik-wai

27 October 2009 6:02 AM, PDT | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »

If you're going to talk about cinema at present, even if you're not talking very thoroughly, it's inevitable that Yu Lik-wai's work, if not his name, will come up. If anyone's got answers about the present, it's the man who shot Unknown Pleasures. Yu is one of our greatest cinematographers, probably the greatest shooting excluively in digital formats, and he also happens to be a damn good director. It's the former that he's best known: as Jia Zhang-ke's director of photography and producer, he forms half of one of the great partnerships in filmmaking. The famous story (possibly apocryphal) is that Jia saw a few minutes of Yu's feature debut, Love Will Tear Us Apart 1996 documentary Neon Goddesses at a film festival and decided they had to work together. Apart, they're two singular men who think very seriously about the world they live in and cinema's ability to express it. »

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George Clooney Makes the Case for Matt Damon in Hamdan Vs. Rumsfeld

21 September 2009 1:17 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Want to know why I trust George Clooney with a movie like “Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld” which is a courtroom drama about the U.S. case against Osama Bin Laden’s former chauffeur Salim Ahmed Hamdan?  He made “Good Night, and Good Luck.”  Because he’s not trying to make it a political film but clearly tells a good story first and lets the political aspect speak for itself.  Now with the news that he’s casting his friend Matt Damon as the lead means they’re crafting a powerhouse of movie.  Find out why this film will be one of my most-anticipated if it comes together.

/Film [via FemaleFirst] reports that Clooney has brought Matt Damon to star as Hamdan’s lawyer as the film tracks Hamdan’s capture to his incarceration in Guantanamo Bay as his case moves through the system and eventually reaches the Supreme Court.

Clooney and Damon previously »

- Matt Goldberg

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Polley Rules As Queen Kristina

11 September 2009 6:48 AM, PDT | HollywoodNorthReport.com | See recent HollywoodNorthReport.com news »

Canadian film actress Sarah Polley will star as the 17th century Queen of Sweden in the dramatic feature Queen Kristina, to be directed by Mika "The House Of Branching Love" Kaurismäki. The film is a co-production with Anna Stratton and Robin Cass of Toronto's Triptych Media, Kaurismäki through his Marianna Films and Hank "City Of God" Levine of Berlin's Hank Levine Film. The real Kristina, born into Swedish royalty in 1626, was her father.s only heir, raised as a Prince and educated as a boy. Upon her father's death she took the oath as a king, not a queen and was nicknamed 'Girl King'. The film will lense in Canada and Sweden, winter/spring of 2011 for a Canadian release by Union Pictures... »

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Katia Lund to Direct Dancing Arabs

20 May 2009 5:53 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

In a story from Variety, it seems that Katia Lund (co-director of City Of God) will be directing Dancing Arabs.

Budgeted at $5 million the movie is an adaptation of Sayed Kashua's autobiographical novel which has the same title.

Kashua will be adapting the screenplay.

The film follows Kashua, as a small-town Arab-Israeli whose high marks in school got him into a Hebrew boarding school. While there he took on the Jewish-Israeli identity of a friend who was confined to his home.

"Growing up bicultural in Brazil raised questions about identity, which are not mine alone, but have driven me as a filmmaker," stated Director Lund. "Dancing Arabs exposes the strains and fractures of identity in a childhood and adolescence where borders are increasingly confused."

She plans to use non-professional or little-known actors. The film will shoot in Jerusalem in Hebrew and Arabic from late 2009 or early 2010. »

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Vacancy 2: The First Cut (DVD Review)

22 January 2009 10:11 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

One of the positives of Vacancy 2: The First Cut is that its existence suggests that the efficiently scary original, a box-office disappointment in theaters, found a wider audience on video—enough to encourage the production of this Sony Pictures direct-to-disc follow-up. Another is that as DVD sequels go, this one doesn’t shame its predecessor.

It no doubt helped that producer Hal Lieberman and scripter Mark L. Smith both returned for the second round (while foreign import Nimrod Antal was replaced by domestic indie-film stalwart Eric Bross as director). This is another in the reductive trend of prequels that attempt to explain just why their murderers do what they do, but for the first 20 minutes, Smith seems to be onto something as he traces the evolution of his villains from voyeuristic pornographers to snuff purveyors. Gordon (David Moscow, the boy who became Tom Hanks in Big, now grown up and styled—intentionally, »

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