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Labels: Best 2006
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I'm really happy with the Art Direction nod for The Descent. When I learned that the majority of the film was shot on a set, I couldn't believe it. I just naturally assumed otherwise, although I should have considered how difficult it would have been to navigate a crew in the darkness and sketchiness of a cavern. Not to mention the safety issues.
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MY PROFILE THE LATEST THE BEST THE FAVORITES THE WOMEN THE REST |
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| Amour | A | |
| Anna Karenina | C | |
| Argo | C+ | |
| Barbara | B | |
| The Central Park Five | B | |
| Detropia | B | |
| Django Unchained | C | |
| End of Watch | B– | |
| Flight | B– | |
| Girl Walk // All Day | B | |
| The Guilt Trip | C | |
| Hitchcock | D | |
| The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | C– | |
| Holy Motors | A– | |
| How to Survive a Plague | A– | |
| Hyde Park on Hudson | F | |
| The Impossible | C+ | |
| Life of Pi | B+ | |
| Lincoln | B+ | |
| The Loneliest Planet | B | |
| The Master | B | |
| Middle of Nowhere | B+ | |
| Les Misérables | D– | |
| On the Road | C+ | |
| The Perks of Being a Wallflower | B+ | |
| Rust and Bone | B– | |
| The Sessions | C+ | |
| Silver Linings Playbook | C+ | |
| Sister | B+ | |
| Skyfall | C+ | |
| Starlet | A– | |
| This Is 40 | D+ | |
| Zero Dark Thirty | B | |
| Coming Attractions: | ETA | |
| Any Day Now | Landed | |
| Promised Land | Landed | |
| Feature Films: | 19 | |
| Antiviral | B+ | |
| The Bella Vista | A– | |
| Beyond the Hills | B– | |
| Clip | B– | |
| The Final Member | B | |
| Hemel | C– | |
| Holy Motors | A– | |
| Keep the Lights On | B | |
| Like Someone in Love | B+ | |
| Mekong Hotel | B | |
| Once Upon a Time Was I, Verônica | B– | |
| Out in the Dark | C | |
| Paradise: Love | B+ | |
| Reality | B– | |
| The Repentant | B– | |
| Room 237 | D+ | |
| The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni | B | |
| War Witch | B+ | |
| Westerland | C– | |
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Fifty Key American Films ($27/pbk), new from Routledge,
edited by Sabine Haenni and John White.
Includes my essays on
The Wild Party,
The Incredibles, and
Brokeback Mountain. Intended as both a newcomer's guide to the terrain
and a series of short, exploratory essays about such influential works as The Birth of a Nation, His Girl Friday, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song,
Taxi Driver, Blade Runner, Daughters of the Dust, and Se7en.
The Cinema of Todd Haynes: All That Heaven
Allows ($25/pbk), new from Wallflower Press, and distributed in the USA by Columbia University Press. Includes the essay
"'The Invention of a People': Velvet Goldmine and the Unburying of Queer Desire" by Nick Davis.
More, too, on Poison, Safe, Far From Heaven, and all the rest of Haynes' films by Alexandra Juhasz, Marcia Landy,
Todd McGowan, James Morrison (ed.), Anat Pick, and other scholars. "A collection as intellectually and emotionally
generous as Haynes' films" —Patricia White, Swarthmore College
Film Studies:
The Basics ($14/pbk), new from Routledge. Award-winning
film scholar and teacher Amy Villarejo finally gives us the quick, smart, reader-friendly guide to film vocabulary that every
teacher, student, and movie enthusiast has been waiting for, as well as a one-stop primer in the past, present, and future of film production, exhibition,
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the book commits itself at every turn to the artistry, politics, and accessibility of cinema.
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