The only thing I hate more than good films released with no support (and are soon dumped in DVD bins) are those good films that flash by in a week in December, strictly aiming for an Oscar nomination, and then duck and cover until January. I hate it even more when my one of my personal picks for best of the year -- Barney's Version starring Paul Giamatti -- does that duck and cover. So... noting that it really won't be seen until next yar (ditto Halle Berry's Frankie and Alice, which pulled the same stunt and did get nominations . . .) |
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| The Kids Are All Right | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Toy Story 3 |
The Concert | Mao's Last Dancer |
TOP 10 FILMS OF 2010 and, finally, what will win Oscar this year... MOVIE |
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 Kevin Spacey Casino Jack |
 Justin Timberlake The Social Network |
 Annette Bening The Kids Are All RIght |
 Jacki Weaver Animal Kingdom |
 Lisa Cholodenko The Kids Are All Right |
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 Guy and Madeleine on a Park Bench |
 Burlesque |
 Somewhere |
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| You may have seen a full page ad in your Sunday paper with 40 or so critics quoted: "Incredible!" "Phenomenal" "Best Movie Ever" and every single one of 'em was either lying or misquoted or so amazingly off the mark that every other critic I know here in New York couldn't believe it either. If you were lucky you listened to us and never heard of Guy and Madeleine on a Park Bench. |
We don't have to expain this one. We could, at least, enjoy (sic) the music. |
Finally there is the film that fills the highest echelons of arthouse pandering . . . which is a shame because Sofia Coppola is a writer/director of some talent. Where that talent went in the case of her film Somewhere is unknown to us. Like Guy and Madeine on a Park Bench, Somewhere was so terrible we wrote nothing. We can endure only so much. | ||
| And, yes, of course there were more than three terrible films this year. Most deserve to be forgotten. Certain films deserve to be remembered. |
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ANIMATED
Toy Story 3
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole [best CG of the lot of CG animations. period]
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
The Concert
DOCUMENTARY
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
WORST
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
Burlesque
Somewhere
ACTOR
Kevin Spacey as Jack in Casino Jack
Paul Giametti as Barney Panofsky in Barney's Version
Michael Caine as Harry Brown in Harry Brown
Ed Harris as the alcoholic dad Charlie Winston in Touching Home
Joe Pesci as brothel owner [ Bontempo ] in Love Ranch
ACTRESS
*Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie in The Runaways ...... [I am very tempted...]
*Kirsten Dunst in All Good Things
Annette Bening as Nic in The Kids Are All RIght
Jessica Chastain in Jolene
Diane Lane in Secretariat
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker in The Social Network
Dustin Hoffman as Izzy Panofsky in Barney's Version
Jonah Hill as Cyrus in Cyrus
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jacki Weaver as Janine Cody, the mother/grandmother in Animal Kingdom. You want creepy? She defines it.
Chloe Moretz as Hit-Girl in Kick-Ass
Frances Fisher as JD warden Cindy in Jolene
DIRECTOR
Lisa Cholodenko for The Kids Are All Right
SCREENPLAY (ADAPTED)
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World by Michael Bacall & Edgar Wright [based on the Oni Press Graphic novel "Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life", by Bryan Lee O'Malley. Wow. A comic book even I never heard of!!!!!!]
SCREENPLAY (ORIGINAL)
The Kids Are All Right by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
CINEMATOGRAPHY
True Grit
ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE
The Kids Are All Righ