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http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/mynameiskhan/ This is the trailer for My Name is Khan, a Fox Searchlight Film that I am excited about. There was some controversy the previous year about the actor Shahrukh Khan being detained at Newark airport, but far more interesting is that it featu...

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In all fairness, he is.

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Fearless. One of the finest redemptive portraits of a man off the edge. Literally no idea how he failed to get a single nomination that year. One would imagine after Day-Lewis, Hanks, Hopkins, and Neeson, that fifth slot would be tailor-made. Nothing against Fishburne, but Bridges' work in Fearless...

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Huh.

Well, it's a solid combination of foregone conclusions and pretty solid alternative choices . Can't really complain.

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Carter Burwell's score for Being John Malkovich is one of the finest I've ever heard. His work on Fargo, Gods and Monsters, and Rob Roy are excellent pieces of work as well. Without any formal education pertaining to music terminology, I would liken Burwell's best work to melancholic dirges. For a ...

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Pan's Labyrinth was also about the seeds of fascism and was nominated in far more categories, even winning a few. It still lost to the more mainstream The Lives of Others.

The Lives of Others is more mainstream than Pan's Labyrinth?

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If this branch chose Departures over Waltz with Bashir and The Class (which I called), then there's no way they're going for the two-and-a-half hours of bad touch that is The White Ribbon.

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The only film in their top twenty that I've yet to see is 35 Shots of Rum which I have downloaded.

I've only seen 69/100 total.

I like this list. There are more than a few films I'm just not on board for but these are all works of passion.

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...and the rest. 20. Miami Vice. A freestyle meditation on identity and self-perception, Miami Vice finds a perfect union of form and content via ravishingly rendered digital cinema, flattening the world into an expressionistic vista of interconnected tides and currents of bodies in space, subtextu...

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Although the narrative ellipses are still pleasurable, I find Syndromes and a Century to be something of a bore.

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Last year, I'd agree with you. This year, I don't think anyone can entirely agree on Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, and a few others. It's not an open-and-shut case.

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Oh, Christ. Get ready. (For the record, they are absolutely correct about [Fill in the blank].) 40. Inglourious Basterds. For Quentin Tarantino, flesh and celluloid are perpetually mingled. A multilayered study of (spoken, visual, cinematic) language posing as an exuberant paean to wartime adventur...

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Any list that could possibly rank War of the Worlds higher than anything below it on the list (even the stuff I haven't seen), I have to ignore. I'm not saying this to start an argument but I have heard you say this again and again on this board. If somebody presents a differing view on something t...

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I haven't seen Laws of Desire, which I hear is pretty gay. Bad Education is certainly a very gay movie, but for ages now I've been waiting for a movie to come along that both indicts and cherishes how our past works its way into our movies. I don't quite find the ending entirely satisfying because ...

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/Bad Education/ (Pedro Almodovar) - 9/10 I think there's a little something missing in the final act. Here's what I wrote for a soon-to-be-published piece: "A director takes a story and adds a spin. When Enrique Goded (Fele Martínez) first walks across his office to greet “Ignacio” (Bernal), o...

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