Pretty decent mix of flicks being nominated. And even though these categories aren't being tabulated, here are some of my further picks for best of 2004. If for no other reason than there were lots of good films, but only ten little spots to fill for the official list, so... ...BEST...
Drat. Looks like I'm too late, but here are my picks anyway. 1. Dogville (Lars von Trier) 2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry) 3. Hotel Rwanda (Terry George) 4. A Very Long Engagement (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) 5. The Corporation (Abbott & Achbar) 6. Million Dollar Baby...
Here are a bunch of '70s time capsules, all good to great in quality, all ultimately sweet - even if some are darker humor than others (in no particular order)...Breaking Away (1979 - Peter yates)Fun with Dick & Jane (1977 - Ted Kotcheff)The Heartbreak Kid (1972 - Elaine May)Starting Over (1979...
"A place where nobody dared to go a love that we came to know, we called it..." Xanadu (1980) Sad, but true. This crapfest of an excuse for a movie touched something deep and cheesy inside my polyestered soul as a lad, and I can't seem to shake it. Even shock therapy doesn't help. I am...
What the heck is this "multiple angles" button for? I just got a disc from another region and it won't play on my non-region-free machine! What's all this crap I hear about Dekard being a Replicant? Why doesn't Spielberg do commentary tracks?
"She was a blonde: a blonde to make a Bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window." - Raymond Chandler "Sometimes the magic works, sometimes it does not." - Thomas Berger
I don't know that Timothy Carey's uber-cult classic The World's Greatest Sinner (1962) ever got a true commercial release of any kind. For those of us who have seen it over the years, it's certainly indellible, and I wish an Anchor Bay or somebody could finally bring it into the light of day...
No, Huston's Moulin Rouge has nothing to do with Baz Luhrmann's. Huston's is a biopic of artist Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, who is relegated to only a surreal clown in Luhrmann's flick (played by John Leguizamo).
No, Huston's Moulin Rouge has nothing to do with Baz Luhrmann's. Huston's is a biopic of artist Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, who is relegated to only a surreal clown in Luhrmann's flick (played by John Leguizamo).