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Owen Gleiberman's 10 Best Movies of the Decade
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I confess, looking back, that I have no great generalizations to make about the movies that came along this decade. Except for this: There were more films of extraordinary and inspiring quality than I can count -- or include on this list. Without any trouble at all, I could easily have compiled a Top 100 list. Yet there's something about that magical arbitrary number 10 that focuses you, disciplines you, forces you to ask yourself what matters. Here, in order of preference, are the movies of the last 10 years that thrilled, moved, delighted, fascinated, and meant the most to this critic. They're
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- Owen Gleiberman
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100 best films of the noughties: Nos 11-90
18 December 2009 2:17 AM, PST
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The Guardian film team's pick of the top 100 movies of the decade. Check back from 21 December as we unveil the top 10 day by day
11-20
11. Waltz With Bashir
12. Dig!
13. The Beat That My Heart Skipped
14. The Consequences of Love
15. No Country for Old Men
16. Silent Light
17. Japon
18. The Sun
19. What Time Is It There?
20. Before Sunset
21-30
21. Unrelated
22. One and a Two
23. Ivansxtc
24. Let the Right One In
25. Of Time and the City
26. When the Levees Broke
27. You Can Count on Me
28. A Serious Man
29. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
30. Control
31-40
31. The Death of Mr Lazarescu
32. Grizzly Man
33. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
34. Être et Avoir
35. Far from Heaven
36. Hidden
37. The Hurt Locker
38. Oldboy
39. The New World
40. The Piano Teacher
41-50
41. Spirited Away
42. Vera Drake
43. American Splendor
44. Capturing the Friedmans
45. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
46. Crimson Gold
47. A History of Violence
48. In the Mood for Love
49. Movern Callar
50. The Night of the Sunflowers
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Decade: Andrew Jarecki on “Capturing The Freidmans”
13 December 2009 6:24 PM, PST
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Editor’S Note: Every day for the next month, indieWIRE will be republishing profiles and interviews from the past ten years (in their original, retro format) with some of the people that have defined independent cinema in the first decade of this century. Today, we’ll step back to 2003 with an interview indieWIRE’s Nick Poppy had with Andrew Jarecki upon the release of his greatly acclaimed doc “Capturing The Friedmans.” One Family’s …
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Decade: Andrew Jarecki on “Capturing The Freidmans”
13 December 2009 6:24 PM, PST
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Editor’S Note: Every day for the next month, indieWIRE will be republishing profiles and interviews from the past ten years (in their original, retro format) with some of the people that have defined independent cinema in the first decade of this century. Today, we’ll step back to 2003 with an interview indieWIRE’s Nick Poppy had with Andrew Jarecki upon the release of his greatly acclaimed doc “Capturing The Friedmans.” One Family’s …
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The Naughts: The Documentary of the '00s
7 December 2009 10:17 AM, PST
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Sometimes superlatives need to be slung, such as when speaking of the richest, most ambitious and exciting decade yet for nonfiction film -- and, really, what other variety could back up that boast? To nail down a single doc as the preeminent work that typifies these years is no easy task, especially since the best of the bunch attacked specific subjects with laser-like precision and idiosyncratic techniques. (Sit tight, the lede is about to be buried.)
The '00s legitimized the allure of the "pop doc," a trend that shoehorns potentially lackluster material into glossy narratives. Spelling bees were transformed into suspense thrillers ("Spellbound"), quadriplegic rugby players did their own stunts ("Murderball"), tangoing kids got their dance-off ("Mad Hot Ballroom"), a reckless but beautiful feat of derring-do was reenacted like a heist procedural ("Man on Wire"), and a PBS-style nature film became a blockbuster saga of familial survival ("March of the Penguins"). Who'd have thought,
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- Aaron Hillis
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First Images and Synopses for All Good Things, Pirhana 3D, Shanghai, and The Fighter
10 November 2009 10:54 PM, PST
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Afm* fun continues with the first images and full synopses for All Good Things starring Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst, Pirhana 3D starring Elisabeth Shue and Richard Dreyfuss, Shanghai starring John Cusack and Ken Watanbe, and The Fighter starring Christian Bale, Mark Wahlberg, and Amy Adams. These are all films that should be on your radar because there’s a good chance that these films will be getting some major marketing when they hit theaters.
I write and read about films every day and with the exception of The Fighter, these films weren’t really on my radar. After reading the synopses and seeing some shots from these movies, I’ll definitely be on the lookout for further news about them. Hit the jump to check out debut photos and what you need to know about these upcoming flicks.
All Good Things
Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Andrew Jarecki (Capturing the Friedmans
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Simonsen and Danna scoring ‘All Good Things’
1 October 2009 7:20 AM, PDT
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Rob Simonsen is composing the score and Mychael Danna producing the music for the upcoming Weinstein Co. drama thriller All Good Things, starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kirsten Dunst, Ryan Gosling, Kristen Wiig and Frank Langella. The film is made by director Andrew Jarecki, whose previous credits include the award-winning documentary Capturing the Friedmans. The film, which will be released next year, is supposedly based on a true story, about one
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Fantastic Fest 09: The One-Two Punch of Cropsey and The House Of The Devil
29 September 2009 11:56 AM, PDT
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Seeing the devil-centric documentary Cropsey and the cult-friendly The House Of The Devil in the same day, I’m surprised a full eclipse didn’t occur over Austin, TX’s Alamo Drafthouse, where the fifth annual Fantastic Fest is being housed. Normally, it would seem an unlikely choice to review two movies in the same breath, but it’s more than appropriate in this case.
Ever since Fangoria Radio had Cropsey filmmakers Barbara Brancaccio and Joshua Zeman as guests way back in May, I was interested in seeing the Staten Island-lensed documentary, in which the two local filmmakers return to investigate and shed some light on the mystery surrounding five missing children. They were said to have been abducted by real-life bogeyman Andre Rand, and speculation about their fates developed into an urban legend about a man named Cropsey who would kidnap kids. Brancaccio and Zeman grew up only a few miles apart,
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Home Movies
1 September 2009 1:48 AM, PDT
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The decades-old cliché goes, watching other people's home movies is hell frozen over. Strangely, this is true only if you know the people, and it's their vacation in Tahoe that you're forced to sit through after a few cocktails and a bellyful of spinach lasagna, as they narrate the landscapes and sigh at their own kids' antics and wistfully recall the best restaurant sea bass they've ever eaten. As Daffy Duck said, I demand that you shoot me now.
Removed from that cloying context, though, home movies are raw and beautiful cinema, mysterious, bewitching and filled with the melancholy for the passage of time, as anyone who has seen "Capturing the Friedmans" (I mean that heartbreaking 8mm footage of the roof-dancing girl, whose demise tipped the whole family into doom), or Ken Jacobs' "Urban Peasants" (family home movies, edited together without intervention) knows. In fact, the allure of old
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- Michael Atkinson
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Capturing The Friedmans – Movie Review
24 July 2009 2:09 PM, PDT
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The genesis of Andrew Jarecki’s Capturing the Friedmans has already become an established industry anecdote. Jarecki, who from what I understand has only his status as co-founder of MovieFone connecting him to the industry, set out, for reasons I cannot imagine, to make a documentary about party clowns in New York City. David Friedman had somehow managed to become, according to someone I suppose, the number one party clown in New York. What that means I can’t really guess. It’s probably not surprising that during the course of Jarecki’s interviews with David Friedman, something turned out to be more interesting than a documentary about party clowns. That, however, is the only thing that isn’t surprising about David Friedman’s life.
Capturing the Friedmans is a look at a bizarre family, and the even more bizarre circumstances which led to the father and one son going to jail for child molestation.
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- Marc Eastman
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The Awful Truths of Cropsey
22 April 2009 2:20 PM, PDT
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“Everybody has their guy,” says Barbara Brancaccio, one half of the team behind Cropsey, a standout film at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. And she’s absolutely right. Horror, no matter what artistic form it takes, didn’t create the boogeyman; he created horror, and we’ve been telling stories about him since the beginning. In every neighborhood across the country, he comes in a different form, with a different past, but he exists in the darkest reaches of our minds and communities, starring in cautionary tales that warn us of places we shouldn’t go and things we shouldn’t do.
In upstate New York, he was called Cropsey (or Cropsy), a burned judge, or camp counselor (depending on who you speak with) who took vengeance on the foolish children that accidentally killed his wife and daughter (supposedly). By the time this urban legend floated down the Hudson River and onto Staten Island,
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