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List #3: Best of 2007, Film

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2007-12-27 15:53:00 by Joe in Fin de cinema
...exceptionally haunting film that I would dare to call it his best (I actually have yet to see his Invisible Waves for the record). Ploy is a dreamy and alternately nightmare-y tale of a married couple, stuck in a Bangkok hotel with a strange, lonely girl. Deceptions and jealousies arise beneath the eerily calm and gorgeous cinematography. If...
 
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Curse of the Crying Woman

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2006-07-24 04:22:00 by Brian in International Walnut
...exceptional visual splendor. Thankfully the DVD presents the film with the original Spanish audio track with optional English subtitles. However, those who might want extra cheese with their gothic horror can listen to the K. Gordan Murray English dub, which CasaNegra has been kind enough to include Special features include,...
 
Tags: woman, curse, film, excellent film, quintessential horror film, white film, cult horror film, baledon, dvd
 
 
 
 
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Jiri Barta: Labyrinth of Darkness

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2007-04-01 18:22:00 by Brian in International Walnut
...exceptional short film (probably the best short horror film I've ever seen) that uses monochromatic tinting and hand coloring techniques from the era of silent film, in addition to subtle animation to shade expressions and change mood. Gothic atmosphere saturates the film - the art direction is impeccable, it's beautifully photographed and...
 
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Fourth Annual Central Ohio Film Critics Association Awards

2006-01-12 22:59:00 by Your Guide to the Undead in The Film Journal Blog
 
...exceptional visual aesthetic): Frank Millers Sin City Runner up: Brokeback Mountain Best Sound Design (for exceptional aural aesthetic): War of the Worlds Runner up: Walk the Line Breakthrough Film Artist: Amy Adams, for her performance in Junebug Runner up: Joe Wright, for directing Pride & Prejudice Top Ten Films A History of Violence...
 
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A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited about Obama And Why He Cant Win

2008-02-05 02:08:00 by The Sly Fox in The Sly Fox Film Reviews
 
...exceptional about Barack Obama is the same thing that was exceptional about Louis Armstrong. Neither man discovered a new way for society to racially arrange itself. But both men found a way to capture the goodwill of whites in a way that facilitated their lives and careers. -- Excerpted from pages 61 and 127 Only last year, I saw a movie in...
 
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The Top 10 Shots of 2007: Part One

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2008-02-21 08:22:50 by Kristopher Tapley in InContention.com: No one needs film awards coverage this deep.
...exceptional portfolios I wanted to do something special in the way of commemorating the efforts of these individuals, and so I set out to interview a number of them as the year drew to a close. Sadly, I was never able to piece those interviews together in a proper story like I would have wanted, but in recent weeks it has occurred to me that...
 
Tags: lenser andrew reed, lenser, cinematographer martin ruhe, martin ruhe, andrew reed, film medium, film, martin ruhe black, visual
 
 
 
 
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Initial Thoughts on the 80th Annual Academy Awards & Telecast

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2008-02-25 06:06:00 by RC in Strange Culture
...exceptional this year. Favorite Jon moment was probably when he accepted the baby on behalf of Angelina Jolie who was unable to attend because she couldn't get a baby-sitter 3. I was in the Julie Christie camp pre-award show, but am excited that Marion Cotillard won . She was beautiful in her mermaid dress (somehow she pulled it off,...
 
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Blood And Fire

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2008-03-05 15:28:00 by John in Confessions of a Film Critic
...exceptional year for cinema, this film stands proudly beside the Coen Brothers No Country For Old Men as exemplars of todays American cinema and shares with that masterwork the idea that money, and the pursuit of it, corrupts even the strongest of us. More than that, both films look to address the American character writ large through the...
 
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National Magazine Award Noms: New Yorker Nabs Twelve

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2008-03-19 15:56:00 by Variety.com * in Thompson On Hollywood
...exceptional work in the blog form BusinessWeek.com, NYmag.com, People.com, Self.com, SI.com INTERACTIVE FEATURE: This category recognizes an outstanding interactive section of the website, featuring news, entertainment, and other subjects that do not offer practical instruction or advice. It honors a sites creative use of multimedia...
 
Tags: magazine, york, york times magazine, magazine editors, york magazine, honors, award honors sites, online, excellence online
 
 
 
 
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MIND MELD: Which SF/F Books Have The Best and Worst Endings?

2008-05-01 00:28:14 by Joh