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Thank you, Okri.

NOTE: I like Mike D'Angelo's writing. He's an amusing smart-ass who makes a lot of good points.




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The rule is that a film must have had a one week commercial release in New York in that calendar year. Both films fit that criterion.
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I find it absolutely astounding that a list that feature 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (a film that opened at the New York Film Festival in 2007, played a number of venues during that year and then opened in the US limited in January 2008) would share a list with Silent Light (which played around the world in 2007 as much as in 2008, but didn't see its US release until 2009). It's like they don't have any fucking clue which rule they want to use and just decided to cobble the list together at the last minute defying logic in the process.
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Ask David Denby on his current book tour.
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Eric wrote:I think the "cult of D'Angelo" effect played a big part in Silent Light's showing here, but I'm surprised that 4/3/2 topped it off.
How could there be any cult around that smartass posing as a movie reviewer? He seems to me like the kind of person who people could only barely tolerate, not the type who would inspire legends of admirers.
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I think the "cult of D'Angelo" effect played a big part in Silent Light's showing here, but I'm surprised that 4/3/2 topped it off.
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And...

BEST PICTURE
1. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
2. WALL*E

BEST DIRECTOR
1. Carlos Reygadas, Silent Light
2. Andrew Stanton, WALL*E

BEST ACTOR
1. Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
2. Robert Downey, Jr., Iron Man

BEST ACTRESS
1. Anamaria Marinca, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
2. Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1. Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
2. Brad Pitt, Burn After Reading

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1. Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married
2. Hafsia Herzi, The Secret of the Grain

BEST SCREENPLAY
1. Joel & Ethan Coen, Burn After Reading
2. Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York

BEST SCENE
1. Sunrise ~ Silent Light
2. The Pool ~ Let the Right One In
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Mike D'Angelo's website is over at www.panix.com/~dangelo. He's got some great review. He and some internet critics in 1995 formed a poll called the "Skandies" after Pretty Persuasion-screenwriter Skander Halim. If you go to his blog Listen, Eggroll, you can find the current tallies and a little beneath are a list of years going down to 1995 and you can see the full results there. I'll post some former winners beneath here.

BEST PICTURE
3. Silent Light

BEST DIRECTOR
3. Cristian Mungui, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

BEST ACTOR
3. Sean Penn, Milk

BEST ACTRESS
3. Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
3. Eddie Marsan, Happy-Go-Lucky

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
3. Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler

BEST SCREENPLAY
3. Jonathan & Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight

BEST SCENE
3. Elles Alfredsco ~ In the City of Sylvia



2007
Best Picture - There Will Be Blood
Best Director - Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Best Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Best Actress - Carice von Houten, Black Book
Best Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Best Supporting Actress - Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Best Screenplay - There Will Be Blood
Best Scene - Attack on the Han River ~ The Host


2006
Best Picture - The Departed
Best Director - Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Best Actor - Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
Best Actress - Helen Mirren, The Queen
Best Supporting Actor - Mark Wahlberg, The Departed
Best Supporting Actress - Shareeka Epps, Half Nelson
Best Screenplay - The Prestige
Best Scene - Automobile Ambush ~ Children of Men


2005
Best Picture - Grizzly Man
Best Director - Terrence Malick, The New World
Best Actor - Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
Best Actress - Sibel Kekilli, Head-On
Best Supporting Actor - Jeff Daniels, The Squid and the Whale
Best Supporting Actress - Maria Bello, A History of Violence
Best Screenplay - The Squid and the Whale
Best Scene - Majid's Final Cut ~ Caché


2004
Best Picture - Dogville
Best Director - Lars von Trier, Dogville
Best Actor - Paul Giamatti, Sideways
Best Actress - Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake
Best Supporting Actor - Clive Owen, Closer
Best Supporting Actress - Cate Blanchett, The Aviator
Best Screenplay - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Best Scene - The Echo Game ~ House of Flying Daggers


2003
Best Picture - Irreversible
Best Director - Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Best Actor - Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the
Black Pearl
Best Actress - Uma Thurman, Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Best Supporting Actor - Peter Sarsgaard, Shattered Glass
Best Supporting Actress - Renee Zellweger, Cold Mountain
Best Screenplay - The Secret Lives of Dentists
Best Scene - Rock Marooned ~ Gerry


2002
Best Picture - 25th Hour
Best Director - Spike Lee, 25th Hour
Best Actor - Campbell Scott, Roger Dodger
Best Actress - Julianne Moore, Far From Heaven
Best Supporting Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis, Gangs of New York
Best Supporting Actress - Meryl Streep, Adaptation.
Best Screenplay - Adaptation.
Best Scene - "The Shrinking Lover" ~ Talk to Her


2001
Best Picture - In the Mood for Love
Best Director - Wong Kar-wai, In the Mood for Love
Best Actor - Billy Bob Thornton, The Man Who Wasn't There
Best Actress - Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive
Best Supporting Actor - Steve Buscemi, Ghost World
Best Supporting Actress - Scarlett Johansson, Ghost World
Best Screenplay - Memento
Best Scene - The Audition ~ Mulholland Drive
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Post by Franz Ferdinand »

Sorry, but what are the Skandies? I've never heard of them but their picks are great.
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BEST PICTURE
4. Rachel Getting Married

BEST DIRECTOR
4. Jonathan Demme, Rachel Getting Married

BEST ACTOR
4. Guillaume Depardieu, The Duchess of Langeais

BEST ACTRESS
4. Michelle Williams, Wendy and Lucy

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
4. Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
4. Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona

BEST SCREENPLAY
4. My Winnipeg

BEST SCENE
4. Dinner Party - 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
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How about Mahkmalabaf? A Moment of Innocence/Nun Va Goldoon/The Bread and the Vase is probably one of my favourite films from the 90's.

And which Kairostami did you see? Because if it was Ten or ABC Africa (or 10 on Ten), and that's all, you really need to dive into The Wind Will Carry Us.

And Woman on the Beach is okay, I guess.
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I will go out of my way to watch Close Up (?) but I am so fucking exhausted with trying to get into Kiarostami. I haven't seen a Kiarostami film that Panahi can't surpass.
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Happens to the best of us, I imagine. At the moment, I've sort of given up on the Dardennes. :(
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Sabin wrote:I've heard that Woman on the Beach is very accessible so I might start there and work backwards. I've heard astonishing things about Turning Gate. I'm in it for at least three. That's what I gave to Abbas Kiarostami before I gave up.
Oh, Josh you gave up on Kiarostami? -- the greatest living filmmaker (now that Blake Edwards seems to be retired). Say it isn't so!
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Hustler wrote:
Sabin wrote:In Bruges really grew on me since my viewing last summer. It's got a couple of inconsistencies and lags, but it's a pretty solid feature that i really enjoyed. Ralph Fiennes is great but Brendan Gleeson is the class act. I don't think Colin Farrell will ever be as good again.

I think he was even better in Cassandra´s Dream.
I loved him in In Bruges, but didn't like him at all in Cassandra's Dream where he joined a long line of actors who were miscast as the Woody Allen character in a Woody Allen movie.
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