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| The Movies of 2011: |
108 | |
| Albert Nobbs | D+ | |
| The Artist | B+ | |
| Bombay Beach | B | |
| Carnage | C+ | |
| Coriolanus | B | |
| A Dangerous Method | B+ | |
| The Descendants | F | |
| Drive | B+ | |
| Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | C | |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | B | |
| Hugo | C– | |
| The Ides of March | B– | |
| The Iron Lady | C– | |
| Kinyarwanda | B | |
| Margaret | A– | |
| Margin Call | B– | |
| Martha Marcy May Marlene | B– | |
| Melancholia | A– | |
| Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol | B+ | |
| Moneyball | B | |
| The Muppets | C+ | |
| My Week with Marilyn | C– | |
| Pariah | B | |
| Pina | A– | |
| Rampart | B+ | |
| Shame | B | |
| Sleeping Beauty | A | |
| Take Shelter | B– | |
| Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | B | |
| Tomboy | B+ | |
| Tyrannosaur | B– | |
| War Horse | B+ | |
| We Need To Talk About Kevin | B– | |
| Weekend | A– | |
| Young Adult | C | |
| Coming Attractions: | ETA | |
| Haywire | Landed | |
| Feature Films: | 17 | |
| The Artist | B+ | |
| Cairo 678 | B– | |
| Coriolanus | B | |
| Corpo Celeste | B+ | |
| Kinyarwanda | B | |
| A Little Closer | B | |
| Love Is in the Air | C+ | |
| Melancholia | A– | |
| Miss Bala | A– | |
| Once Upon a Time in Anatolia | B | |
| The Slut | B– | |
| Snowtown | B+ | |
| Southwest | A– | |
| Tomboy | B+ | |
| Ways of the Sea | B+ | |
| We Need To Talk About Kevin | B– | |
| Without | B– | |
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- Picture Noms % Seen:
- 85%
- Crossfire
- B
- The Country Girl
- B–
- The Emigrants
- A
- Director Noms % Seen:
- 90%
- Sabrina
- B–
- I Want to Live!
- C
- The Divine Lady
- B–
- Actress Noms % Seen:
- 100%
- A Star Is Born ('54)
- A
- The Letter ('29)
- B
- Splendor in the Grass
- B+
- Actor Noms % Seen:
- 81%
- Thunderbolt
- C+
- When My Baby Smiles at Me
- B–
- Life with Father
- C
- Sup Actress Noms % Seen:
- 88%
- The Egg and I
- B
- The Paradine Case
- B+
- Saratoga Trunk
- F
- Sup Actor Noms % Seen:
- 78%
- The Luck of the Irish
- C–
- The Story of G.I. Joe
- B+
- Come Fill the Cup
- D+
- Cinematography Noms % Seen:
- 59%
- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
- C+
- ★ The Abyss
- The Uninvited
- C
- Screenplay Noms % Seen:
- 67%
- The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer*
- Boomerang!
Most recent screenings in each race;
multiple nominees appear wherever they scored their most prestigious nod... and yes, that means Actress trumps Actor!
* Denotes a recent reappraisal
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| D | |
| B | |
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Past Festival Coverage
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October 2009Attending as: Accredited Press
Standout Features: Raging Sun, Raging Sky, The Maid, My Neighbor, My Killer, Mother, Fish Tank, Mary and Max, Misssissippi Damned, Precious, Face, About Elly, Police, Adjective, Paranormal Activity, Partners
Also Reviewed: Air Doll, Backyard, Coffin Rock, The Eclipse, Effi Briest, Give Me Your Hand, Lovely, Still, Red Riding: 1974, A Single Man, Vincere
April 2009Attended as: Competition Juror
Standout Features: Prodigal Sons, Make-Out with Violence, Crude
Standout Shorts: Next Floor, I Am So Proud of You, Love You More, The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306, Terminus, Instead of Abracadabra, Western Spaghetti, Omelette, Hungu, Walnut
October 2008Attended as: Accredited Press
Standout Features: Johnny Mad Dog, Waltz with Bashir, Wendy and Lucy, Che
October 2008Attended as: Avid Filmgoer
Standout Features: Julia, Ballast
April 2008Attended as: Competition Juror
Standout Features: True Love, Chronic Town, Turn the River
October 2007Attended as: Avid Filmgoer
Standout Features: 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, Taxi to the Dark Side, Yella, Flight of the Red Balloon, The Aerial, Silent Light, Hallam Foe, Michael Clayton, The Savages
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Hot Off the Presses!
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,
circulation, and theory. Great glossary, wide-ranging examples, and utterly unpretentious prose that is nonetheless rigorous in its analysis;
the book commits itself at every turn to the artistry, politics, and accessibility of cinema.
- Best of 2011: Visual Effects
- Best of 2011: Makeup
- Best Actress Birthday Party, Week 7
- Best of 2011: Adapted Screenplay
- Best of 2011: Supporting Actor
- Best of 2011: Original Score
- Best Actress Birthday Party, Week 6
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Oscar
- January Birthday Girls
- Live-Blogging the 2011 SAG Awards
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