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Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
The end of 2009 not only means there will be an onslaught of year-end lists to pore over, but also lists of the best films of the first decade of the 21st century. We've already had the best of the decade list from the TIFF Cinematheque , that was topped by Syndromes and a Century by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and had his Tropical Malady and Blissfully Yours ranked as well. Now comes the Time Out New...
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Girish (Free subscription) | yesterday
Just as they did ten years ago , James Quandt and TIFF Cinematheque ( née Cinematheque Ontario) have conducted a worldwide poll of film curators, archivists, historians and programmers for best ("most important") films of the decade (scroll down for the compiled list). It's a heady and wonderful list that militates unashamedly and polemically for film as art . There are 54 films on...
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Michael Robinson,
Ontario,
Sports,
Wong Kar Wai,
Wong Kar-Wai
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The IFC Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Barring whatever Artforum cooks up, you're unlikely to find a more uncompromisingly festival/arthouse/"difficult"-centric best-of-the-decade list than the TIFF Cinematheque's Top 30 of the decade -- which is actually 54 films long due to a truly staggering number of ties, but who's counting? The most "popular" movies on the list -- I use that word advisedly -- are probably "The...
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Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
FAMILY: DISNEY On Ice presents Princess Wishes, above, as Tinker Bell whisks the audience through a collection of enchanting Disney stories. Join Ariel as she yearns to explore the world above the waves and see Snow White find her one true love.Echo Arena until November 29, tickets £11.50 - £33.50 plus booking/handling fee, 0844 8000 400.
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Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Syndromes and a Century has been named the best film of the decade in a critics poll by the Toronto International Film Festival Cinematheque . The movie that was censored in Thailand continues to be hailed by critics worldwide. In fact, three of Apichatpong's films are on the list. His 2004 Cannes Jury Prize-winning drama Tropical Malady is at No. 6, and 2003's Cannes Un...
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Film Festivals,
Gus Van Sant,
Jean-Luc Godard,
Terrence Malick,
Toronto,
Un certain regard,
Wong Kar Wai,
Wong Kar-Wai
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Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Syndromes and a Century, was selected as the best film of the decade in a poll conducted by the Toronto International Film Festival....
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Twitch (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
It seems Canada's national paper, The Globe and Mail , has been busy talking to film programmers, historians and archivists lately. They have put together a list of films that have played at the Toronto International Film Festivals in the past 10 years that garnered 7 or more votes from their 60 voters to declare "The Top Films of the Decade" from a artier perspective than say, the typical...
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TO411 Daily (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
They are either the best examples of film art of the decade or a cinema snob's top cocktail-party namedroppers. TIFF Cinematheque, the year-long screening program connected with the Toronto International Film Festival, has compiled a list of the top 30 films of the decade, as picked by 60 film historians, festival programmers and archivists from around the world. (Actually, more than 50 films made...
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modyfier (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
. . NICOLA RATTI If I were to answer, "Why do you do what you do?" I would say, "It is because of how I imagine the future." For me, it’s all about that. I moved into art so that I could build a place where all my thoughts projected forward and split into something real -- music, soundart, pictures and so on. It is a feeling, maybe a hidden one, that grows from the inside...
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patruped:bun biped:rau (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
De curând Times şi Telegraph au dat publicităţii clasamentele privind cele mai bune 100 de filme din ultimii 10 ani şi înţelegem că fiind independente cele două liste nu au cum să fie la fel, însă filmul lui Cristian Mungiu 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile s-a clasificat pe locul 14 în topul Timesonline şi pe...
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Michael Moore,
Paul Haggis,
Peter Weir,
Richard Linklater,
Robert Rodriguez,
Roman Polanski,
Sam Raimi,
Werner Herzog
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Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
I’M off for a bit of Jiggery Pokery tonight. The play about the life of Carry On star Charles Hawtrey is on at the Unity Theatre and continues until tomorrow as part of Homotopia.
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Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Guts Short Programme 1 This is a collection of shorts from Thai directors. The Great Dictator by Noraset Vaisayakul is inspired by Charlie Chaplin's film and it reminded me of something out of 1984 or Equilibrium , with a figurehead leader appearing in agitprop fashion to calm citizens even as the country is burning down around him. The English subtitles added playfulness, as they would be made bigger...
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I V Y Paris (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Brendan Siebel writing for VINGT Paris, image from SAIC. Military occupation, ghost stories, feral youth and time travel converge in Thai film director and conceptual artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul's exhibit, showing at Musée d'Art Moderne. Observers cannot passively absorb any single...
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Limitless Cinema (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
FILMS SEEN ON MONDAY, 9 NOV 1.I FORGOT THE TITLE (2009, Christelle Lheureux, Italy, A+++++++++++++++) http://www.worldfilmbkk.com/films/68/I-Forgot-the-Title.html This film gives me the ultimate pleasure. It gives me the same kind of sublime, trance-like feelings I experienced from BIRTH OF THE SEANEMA (2004, Sasithorn Ariyavicha, A+++++++++++++++++) and LISTENER'S TALE (2007, Arghya Basu, India, A+++++)....
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Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
When Slovenian film programmer Nika Bohinc was in Bangkok at the end of July and early August for the Lav Diaz Retrospective , she handed a Slovenian film to World Film Festival of Bangkok programmer Pathompong "Big" Manakitsomboon. A month after that meeting, Nika was dead, killed along with her boyfriend Alexis Tioseco in a robbery at their home in the Philippines. The film she suggested...
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