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Sunday, December 31, 2006 - 06:14:10
On 2006: The Year in Movies
As we close the books on this year and look forward to prosperous, happy and safe 2007, here is my list of the Ten Best Films of 2006. Happy New Year from the Moviegoer. Joy and Peace.
1. The Departed
2. Half Nelson
3. The Good Shepherd
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5. Notes on a Scandal
6. The Queen
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8. Little Miss Sunshine
9. The Proposition
10. A Prairie Home Companion
The next 10 (in alphabetical order)
Borat
Casino Royale
Come Early Morning
Dreamgirls
Heading South
The Illusionist
Inside Man
Sherrybaby
Thank You for Smoking
Friday, December 29, 2006 - 10:46:12
Factory Girl: UPDATE
The Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick bio-pic was rumored to be released in 2006. Looks like that won't happen, although here's a review from Hollywood Reporter from a screening of a cut of the film. Appears that the rumors are true: Guy Pearce and Sienna Miller are fantastic.
UPDATE: It appears from Oscarwatch.com that this film is eligible for 2006 Academy Award consideration. Wow. Can Sienna Miller (or should I say Harvey Weinstein) pull off a miracle?
A worthy debate
I'll post my Top 10 of 2006 as well as some thoughts on movies in general on New Year's Eve, but I'll go ahead and disclose that there were many movies I did not get to see this year. It's unfortunate, as I noted yesterday, that Little Rock does not do more to get these films. I shouldn't have to schedule a trip to New York each December to see all the great films Little Rock cinema house managers are too scared to screen. That said, I will.
Armchair critic and I have been talking about the movies we're most impatient to see. Here's his list (more or less in order): 1) Letters from Iwo Jima; 2) The History Boys; 3) Volver; 4) The Lives of Others; 5) Pan's Labyrinth; 6) Little Children; 7) The Last King of Scotland; 8) Indigines (Days of Glory); 9) Venus; 10) Notes on a Scandal; 11) The Good German; 12) Miss Potter
Here's my list (in order): 1) Little Children; 2) Pan's Labyrinth; 3) Letters from Iwo Jima; 4) The Last King of Scotland; 5) The Death of Mr. Lazarescu; 6) Volver; 7) Children of Men; 8) The Painted Veil; 9) The Iraq Documentaries (Iraq in Fragments, The War Tapes); 10) Venus; 11) The Lives of Others; 12) Three Times; 13) Deliver Us from Evil; 14) Our Brand is Crisis; 15) Army of Shadows
Thursday, December 28, 2006 - 15:14:00
For the Awards junkie
(Thanks to Sam)January 2007
4 - Screen Actors Guild Nominations Announced
4 - Producers Guild of America Nominations Announced
8 - Visual Effects Society Nominations
8 - American Society of Cinematographers Nominations
8 - New York Film Critics Circle Awards Presentation
9 - Directors Guild of America Nominations Announced
9 - National Board of Review Awards Ceremony
11 - Writers Guild of America Nominations Announced
12 - American Cinema Editors - Eddie Nominations
12 - British Academy of Film and Television Nominations
12 - Broadcast Film Critics Awards Announced
13 - Oscar Nomination polls close 5 p.m. PST
14 - Los Angeles Film Critics Awards Presented
15 - Golden Globe Awards Announced
18 - Producers Guild of America Awards Announced
18 - Cinema Audio Society Nominations
23 - Oscar Nominations Announced 5:30 a.m. PST, Samuel Goldwyn Theater
28 - Screen Actors Guild Awards Announced
26 - Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Nominations
30 - Razzie Nominations Announced
31 - Final Oscar Ballots Mailed
Kansas City Film Critic Awards
USC Scripter Award Nominations
Costume Designers Guild Nominations Announced
National Society of Film Critics Awards
Online Film Critics Society Nominations
Chicago Film Critics Awards Announced
AFI Awards Luncheon
USC Scripter Awards Announced
Online Film Critics Society Awards Announced
Art Directors Guild Nominations
Costume Designers Guild Nominations
Makeup/Hairstylists Guild Nominations
February 2006
3 - Directors Guild of America Awards Announced
5 - Oscar Nominees Luncheon
7 - Art Directors Guild Awards
10 - Academy Scientific and Technical Awards Dinner
11 - Writers Guild of America Awards Announced
11 - British Academy of Film and Television Awards
11 - Visual Effects Society Awards
11 - International Animated Film Society "Annie" Awards
17 - Cinema Audio Society Awards
18 - American Cinema Editor "Eddie" Awards
18 - American Society of Cinematographers Awards
20 - Final Oscar Polls Close 5 p.m. PST
24 - Independent Spirit Awards
24 - Razzie Awards
24 - Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Award
25 - 79th Annual Academy Awards Presentation from the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland® will be televised live by the ABC Television Network beginning at 5:30 p.m. (PST), with an hour arrivals program preceding the presentation ceremony.
Some 'We Are Marshall' history
From a dedicated reader . . .The screen writer (and co producer) is a 26 year old Florida State Univesity graduate (the student who won the best student documentary at the film festival at the opening of the Clinton Library was a Florida State graduate student--must be a good program).....learned about Marshall when he was a 20 year old college student; fascinated with the Bobby Bowden/West Virigina/Florida State connection after researching the story He is now working on the script (for an already commited movie) about an Olympic skier who had an accident and lost his memory.
Fascinating story about the coach....news reports differ: some say he resigned after 4 years (9-33) and others say he was fired. Regardless, he goes on to a stellar athletic director career at Navy and elsewhere--making the Hall of Fame. He, too, was very active in the writing/production....
Movie premiered only this month and was released on December 22...Assistant coach who left after one year played a big role in writing, filming, etc...Movie studio let him watch it privately in advance so he could speak at memorial/opening....
Way to step up Little Rock
What are the folks that run "The Rave," "Breckenridge" and "Riverdale 10" thinking? Respectfully, this is pitiful. This weekend, nothing opens. NOTHING! That means 2006 will end without Little Rock (an area with a metropolitan population of almost 1 million) showing "Little Children," "Letters from Iwo Jima," "The Last King of Scotland," "Volver," "Pan's Labyrinth," "The Lives of Others," "Army of Darkness," "Notes on a Scandal," "The Painted Veil," "Deliver Us from Evil," "Iraq in Fragments," "The War Tapes," "Children of Men," "Inland Empire," "Three Times," "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu" "Venus," and many more of the year's critically acclaimed films.Matt Smith at Market Street Cinema should be applauded. He brought some of the year's best to the big screen and will eventually bring many of these listed above. But his theatre is small and doesn't generate the attendance numbers the biggers cinema houses (like those listed above) generate. They could get many of these movies if they tried hard enough. They don't.
But hey, I'm thrilled that "Black Christmas," "Eragon," "The Nativity Story,"and "Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause" are being held over. These are just a few of the worst movies of the year that have hung around Little Rock theatres.
AFI Moments of Significance
Clint Eastwood, Robert Altman, The Documentary and more . . .Essentially Woody
Cinema Mania
My 'Sherrybaby'
Catching up
'Notes on a Scandal'
More "Dreamgirls"
Can 'Dreamgirls' win?
And so this is Christmas
Tracking Top 10's
L.A. Times talks with Matt Damon
Christmas Day
Charlie Rose
Cate Blanchett is everywhere!
Debating movies at Trio's
Florida Film Critics: "The Departed"
NY Times film critics offer Top 10's
Philip Martin's Top 10
Time Magazine Top 10
Holiday
Green Hollywood
All sorts of 'Dreamgirls'
More Top 10's
Movie girl spreads cheer for 'Rocky Balboa'
Philip Martin talks to Robert DeNiro
Manohla Dargis praises 'The Good Shepherd'
Friday
The Year in Movies
'Letters from Iwo Jima'
'Children of Men' on NPR
'Little Children'
N.Y. Times weighs in on anticipated films
Chicago Film Critics nominations announced
Phoenix Film Critics pick 'United 93'
San Diego Film Critics
What's in your queue?
David Lynch
Ricky Gervais
'Children of Men'
WFCC and Alliance of Women Film Journalists
Black Reel Award nominations
Las Vegas Film Critics
Got a Top 10 yet?
Dallas Film Critics: 'United 93'
SEFCA weigh in
'The Departed,' 'Dreamgirls' take Satellites
Interview with Clive Owen
Reflections
P. Martin's SEFCA ballot
Movies matter
50 Forgotten Films
More Top 10's
Peter Travers' Top 10
9:30
'A Confederacy of Dunces'
"Dreamgirls" is out
Today
'Come Early Morning'
Golden Globes - what to think?
Golden Globe Nominations!
Black Film Festival this weekend
More on 'Come Early Morning'
Newsweek's Top 10
Robert Altman's last interview
David Edelstein looks back on 2006
New Yorker film critics talk memorable movies of 2006
San Francisco film critics vote for 'Little Children'
Conversing with Joey Lauren Adams
Goings on behind the scenes at the NYFCC
Next
Taking a look at the winners and nominess thus far
Broadcast Film Critics Nominations
NY Film Critics Circle
DC Film Crtics vote "United 93" best in show
Memo to Max Brantley, Jim Harris, Warwick Sabin, David Koon
LA Film Critics: as I predicted
The AFI Top 10
Boston Film Critics go for "The Departed"
New York Film Critics Online
Robert DeNiro
Upcoming votes
What the critics are saying
Jim Harris: on guard!
2nd Friday Art Night launches "Reel Evenings"
Oxford American's 'Come Early Morning' benefit
Friday
What's next for Cate Blanchett
Taking another look at the NBR Top 10
National Board of Review
More on 'Little Children'
Meet Jennifer Hudson
National Board of Review tomorrow
President Carter to be subject of documentary
Back on track
Peter O' Toole
Surprise, Surprise
Eddie Murphy
Yes, this really happened
National Board of Review
Interview with John C. Reilly
Satellite Awards nominations
Trades release reviews of anticipated films
'Bobby' and 'For Your Consideration'
Some reasonable Oscar analysis
Take it easy in New Orleans
Chat with Maggie Gyllenhaal
'Half Nelson' cleans up at Gotham Awards
Sundance announces line-up
Philip Martin remembers Robert Altman
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